Artificial mutagenesis as an aid in overcoming genetic vulnerability of crop plants.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-2886-5_15

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Artificial mutagenesis as an aid in overcoming genetic vulnerability of crop plants.

Basic life sciences - 1 Jan 2000

Konzak C F, Nilan R A, Kleinhofs A

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Artificially induced genetic variation is being used effectively to supplement or complement sources of natural origin for practical plant breeding. Thus, creating genetic variation uill become increasingly important as crop genetic resources become more difficult to obtain via plant exploration....

Topics

Alleles
Genetic Engineering
Genetic Variation
Immunity, Innate
Mutagens
Mutation
Plant Diseases
Plants, Edible

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