Plant breeding conventional

Phytochemical functional foods 13.6.1 Conventional plant breeding... 

Longer term Development of organic VCU-testing protocols conventional plant breeding programmes including low-input selection criteria Varieties bred for low-input conditions and organically produced seeds... 

Conventional plant breeding has enabled the virtual elimination of the psychoactive drug THC, tetrahydrocannabinol, from the genus Cotton accounts for 71.8%, wool 8.10%, silk 0.04% and ramie 0.04%... 

Plants are particularly amenable to recombinant DNA manipulation. In part, this is because huge numbers of plant cells can be grown in appropriate media and mutants can be selected from billions of cells that have desired properties such as virus resistance. Individual plant cells are capable of generating whole plants, so cells with desired qualities can be selected and allowed to grow into plants that may have the qualities desired. Ideally, this accomplishes in weeks what conventional plant breeding techniques would require decades to do. 

Cell-culture techniques can be applied in which billions of cells are allowed to grow in a medium and develop mutants which, for example, might be resistant to particular vimses or herbicides or have other desirable qualities. If the cells with the desired qualities can be regenerated into whole plants, results can be obtained that might have taken decades using conventional plant-breeding techniques. 

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