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Creating new interspecific hybrid and polyploid crops.
Trends in biotechnology - 1 Aug 2015
Mason Annaliese S, Batley Jacqueline
Abstract excerpt
Agricultural selection of desirable traits in domesticated plant and animal species mimics natural evolutionary selection for ability of species to survive, thrive, and reproduce in the wild. However, one evolutionary process is currently underutilised for human agricultural purposes: speciation through interspecific hybridisation and polyploid formation. Despite promising successes in creation of new hybrid and...
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