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Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Keywords

Plant breeding

Disciplines

Agronomy and Crop Sciences | Plant Biology | Plant Breeding and Genetics

First Page Number

183

Last Page Number

188

ISSN

0021-8618

Abstract

The first part of this article described the evolution of crop varieties and their improvement by simple selection. This part discusses cross-breeding and the other techniques which underly most modern plant breeding programmes.

The purpose cf crossing is to generate new combinations of varietal characteristics. It does not create anything basically new. All the genetic "ingredients" of a new variety must be present in one or other of the parents.

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