Plant breeding started with sedentary agriculture, particularly the domestication of the first agricultural plants, a practice which is estimated to date... 11 KB (1,375 words) - 15:42, 29 February 2024 |
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... 66 KB (7,585 words) - 03:12, 15 April 2024 |
on their number of chromosomes. Strawberry growers have employed many breeding techniques, starting with traditional plant breeding and then moving on... 15 KB (1,838 words) - 20:39, 7 February 2024 |
Marker-assisted selection (redirect from Smart breeding) Genomics of domestication History of plant breeding Molecular breeding Nested association mapping QTL mapping Selection methods in plant breeding based on... 23 KB (2,928 words) - 19:03, 1 February 2024 |
Captive breeding, also known as captive propagation, is the process of keeping plants or animals in controlled environments, such as wildlife reserves... 59 KB (6,718 words) - 03:42, 19 March 2024 |
Agriculture (redirect from Plant cultivation) Nations. p. 12. Archived from the original on 12 December 2014. "History of Plant Breeding". Colorado State University. 29 January 2004. Archived from the... 180 KB (17,603 words) - 23:32, 28 April 2024 |
method- or plant- specific questions on topics from biometry to genome analysis and from resistance breeding to the history of plant breeding. A General... 5 KB (398 words) - 01:45, 16 January 2024 |
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... 7 KB (533 words) - 22:57, 2 December 2023 |
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... 7 KB (937 words) - 01:02, 27 February 2024 |
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... 94 KB (8,002 words) - 22:45, 7 April 2024 |
Mutation breeding, sometimes referred to as "variation breeding", is the process of exposing seeds to chemicals, radiation, or enzymes in order to generate... 35 KB (4,211 words) - 21:31, 2 April 2024 |
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... 136 KB (14,353 words) - 10:36, 19 April 2024 |
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... 137 KB (14,227 words) - 16:36, 27 April 2024 |
Animal husbandry (redirect from Stock-breeding) management, production, nutrition, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock. Husbandry has a long history, starting with the Neolithic Revolution when... 69 KB (7,480 words) - 17:36, 16 April 2024 |
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... 12 KB (1,233 words) - 00:28, 16 April 2024 |
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... 8 KB (745 words) - 19:41, 30 October 2023 |
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... 29 KB (2,953 words) - 13:48, 12 April 2024 |
Siberian Research Institute of Plant Cultivation and Breeding (Russian: Сибирский научно-исследовательский институт растениеводства и селекции) is a research... 5 KB (516 words) - 15:48, 17 June 2023 |
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... 7 KB (815 words) - 09:21, 9 April 2024 |
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... 23 KB (3,007 words) - 11:39, 13 March 2024 |
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... 3 KB (316 words) - 09:08, 29 December 2023 |
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... 9 KB (765 words) - 19:10, 22 April 2024 |
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... 12 KB (1,277 words) - 17:54, 2 February 2024 |
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... 8 KB (906 words) - 08:52, 20 April 2024 |
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... 18 KB (2,612 words) - 11:55, 2 November 2023 |