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Selective breeding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Selective breeding is the process of breeding plants and animals for particular genetic traits. Typically, strains which are selectively bred are domesticated, and the breeding is sometimes done by a...
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Examples include the facts that more crops will be developed to ward off destructive insects and plant disease, reducing the need to use pesticides, breeding more herbicide, insecticide, and fungicide tolerant crops that will allow more selective application of agricultural chemicals, and plants enhanced to withstand...
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Through processes known as selective breeding and hybridization, farmers and other plant breeders create crops that have many desirable characteristics and few undesirable ones. For the most part, the desired outcomes of these procedures are either an increased yield or better quality crops.
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The banana's main problem is that it has become sterile and seedless as a result of 10,000 years of selective breeding. It has, over time, become a plant with unvarying genetic sameness.
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selective breeding ( si′lektiv ′brēdiŋ ) ( biology ) Breeding of animals or plants having desirable ... Sci-Tech Dictionary: selective breeding...
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