Mutation breeding
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mutation-breeding-212-2094009
title:
Mutation breeding
text:
Mutation breeding, sometimes referred to as "variation breeding", is the process of exposing seeds to chemicals, radiation, or enzymes in order to generate mutants with desirable traits to be bred with other cultivars. Plants created using mutagenesis are sometimes called mutagenic plants or mutagenic seeds. From 1930 to 2014 more than 3200 mutagenic plant varieties were released that have been derived either as direct mutants (70%) or from their progeny (30%). Crop plants account for 75% of rel
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encyclopedia
description:
Process inducing mutations in seeds
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_breeding
date created:
2011-04-20T23:29:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T10:14:00Z
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