Plant breeding and seed production

Key words breeding, seed, variety, generation, certification. 

The basis of modem plant breeding hes in the work of a Moravian monk named Gregor Mendel who lived between 1822 and 1884. His work with a variety of 

It was not imtil the twentieth eentniy and the isolation of the speeifie parts of the deoxyribonuoleie aeid (DNA) in the nuelei of plant cells (the chromosomes and the genes which they contain), which predictably convey characteristics from one generation to another, that the significance of Mendel s work was appreciated. It now forms the basis of all conventional modem plant breeding. 

3 The National Institute of Agricultural Botany (now NIAB Ltd) and the Official Seed Testing Station (OSTS) 

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Organic plant breeding and seed production ecological and ethical aspects... 

European perspectives of organic plant breeding and seed production in a genomics era... 

Plant breeding and seed production 271 12.5.1 Classes of seed and generation control... 

It is very important for farmers and those engaged in the plant breeding and seed production industries to be able accurately to identify specific varieties. This is particularly important when stocks are being multiplied for bulk seed production. All crops must be carefully inspected to ensure a very high degree of varietal purity. If this is not the case the crop may be rejected for seed. 

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