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Modern Biotechnology as an Integral Supplement to Conventional Plant Breeding: The Prospects and Challenges
2006-09-01
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The art of plant breeding was developed long before the laws of genetics became known. The advent of the principles of genetics at the turn of the last century catalyzed the growth of breeding, making it a science-based technology that has been instrumental in substantial improvements in crop plants. Largely through exploitation of hybrid vigor, grain yields of several cereal crops were substantially increased. In...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 37c30a62-b970-5060-964a-2d2e1e97c090
- DOI
- 10.2135/cropsci2005.07-0223