Plant Breeding

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
PBA
Pronunciation
/plænt ˈbridɪŋ/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Unclassified

Examples in Context

  1. This influence can have economic importance, as hemp and asparagus indicate in plant breeding.
  2. Plant breeding has been very successful in generating high-yielding crops.
  3. Insect and drought resistant crops that require small amounts of fertilizer can be designed through molecular plant breeding.
  4. Modern crops are the result of intensive plant breeding and have many characteristics different from their wild ancestors.
  5. GLG added that all of its seeds are produced using traditional plant breeding techniques, without genetic modification.

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