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What is plant breeding?
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Solution 1
Plant breeding is a technique that involves the crossing of two plants to produce progeny with particular traits in their genes that are passed on to future generations in order to create desired plant types that are better suited for cultivation, give better yields, and are disease resistant.
Solution 2
The improvement or purposeful manipulation in the heredity of crops and the production of new superior varieties of existing crop plants constitute what is called plant breeding.
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