• Plant breeding started with sedentary agriculture, particularly the domestication of the first agricultural plants, a practice which is estimated to date...
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    Plant breeding is the science of changing the traits of plants in order to produce desired characteristics. It has been used to improve the quality of...
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    on their number of chromosomes. Strawberry growers have employed many breeding techniques, starting with traditional plant breeding and then moving on...
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  • Genomics of domestication History of plant breeding Molecular breeding Nested association mapping QTL mapping Selection methods in plant breeding based on...
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    Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular...
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    Captive breeding, also known as captive propagation, is the process of keeping plants or animals in controlled environments, such as wildlife reserves...
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    Nations. p. 12. Archived from the original on 12 December 2014. "History of Plant Breeding". Colorado State University. 29 January 2004. Archived from the...
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  • method- or plant- specific questions on topics from biometry to genome analysis and from resistance breeding to the history of plant breeding. A General...
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    Noel Kingsbury (category Alumni of the University of Sheffield)
    this area. Kingsbury has also written a history of plant breeding, Hybrid, The History and Science of Plant Breeding (2009). Kingsbury, Noel (1996). The Indoor...
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  • Plant breeding in Nepal is the art and science of improving the heredity of plants for benefit of humanity in Nepal. The major crops of Nepal include...
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    Basic biological research has often used plants as its model organisms. In genetics, the breeding of pea plants allowed Gregor Mendel to derive the basic...
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    Dog breeding is the practice of mating selected dogs with the intention of maintaining or producing specific qualities and characteristics. When dogs reproduce...
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  • Mutation breeding, sometimes referred to as "variation breeding", is the process of exposing seeds to chemicals, radiation, or enzymes in order to generate...
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    conservation of plant genetic resources in face of genetic erosion by organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation and the European Society of Breeding Research...
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    Botany (redirect from Study of plants)
    called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist...
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    Wheat (redirect from Wheat breeding)
    origins of formal wheat breeding lie in the nineteenth century, when single line varieties were created through selection of seed from a single plant noted...
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    management, production, nutrition, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock. Husbandry has a long history, starting with the Neolithic Revolution when...
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    industry in Malaysia". FAO Plant Breeding News. 195. Pau, L. T.; Salmah, Y.; Suhaila, M. (2002). "Antioxidative properties of roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa...
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    Atomic gardening (category Plant genetics)
    Atomic gardening is a form of mutation breeding where plants are exposed to radiation. Some of the mutations produced thereby have turned out to be useful...
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    Breed (category Breeding)
    breed. Plant breeds are more commonly known as cultivars. The offspring produced as a result of breeding animals of one breed with other animals of another...
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    Camellia sinensis (redirect from Tea plant)
    Wambulwa MC, Li MM, et al. (2018). "Domestication origin and breeding history of the tea plant (Camellia sinensis) in China and India based on nuclear microsatellites...
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  • Siberian Research Institute of Plant Cultivation and Breeding (Russian: Сибирский научно-исследовательский институт растениеводства и селекции) is a research...
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  • Outcrossing (category Breeding)
    Out-crossing or out-breeding is the technique of crossing between different breeds. This is the practice of introducing distantly related genetic material...
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    Plant breeders' rights (PBR), also known as plant variety rights (PVR), are rights granted in certain places to the breeder of a new variety of plant...
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  • Preservation breeding is an attempt by many plant and animal breeders to preserve bloodlines of species, either of a rare breed, or of rare pedigrees...
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    European breeding companies, who 1956 called for a conference to define basic principles for plant variety protection. The first version of the UPOV convention...
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    This is a list of plants that have been domesticated by humans. The list includes individual plant species identified by their common names as well as...
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    Maris Piper (category Crop cultivars bred at the Plant Breeding Institute)
    small tubers in the UK climate. Led by H. W. Howard, workers at the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge crossed the wild potato with contemporary varieties...
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    Agronomy (category Plant agriculture)
    world. This topic of agronomy involves selective breeding of plants to produce the best crops for various conditions. Plant breeding has increased crop...
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  • Doubled haploidy (category Plant breeding)
    production of doubled haploids is important in plant breeding. Haploid cells are produced from pollen or egg cells or from other cells of the gametophyte...
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