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Essay Galaxy - Plant Breeding
Plant Breeding
Mankind has selectively bred plants for thousands of years with the
aim of improving their quality. Experimenting with cereal crops, breeders
have aimed to enhance their yield of grain, the quality of their flour, and
their resistance to disease and drought. With other plants, breeders have
tried to improve the perfume and color of the flowers.
Improvement of plants, particularly food crops, is obviously important
and genetics has contributed to a better understanding of the benefits and
disadvantages of particular breeding programs. Many cereal crops such as
corn are now planted largely as hybrid seed, produced by outbreeding
between different inbred varieties. The vigour of the hybrid plant is
probably a major contribution to the increased corn output in the United
States. Th....
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