Plant breeding/Related Articles

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•  Agriculture: The process of producing food, feed, fiber and other goods by the systematic raising of plants and animals. ^[e]
•  Crop origins and evolution: History of the origins of agriculture and the evolutionary processes that have affected plants during and after domestication. ^[e]
• Biotechnology and Plant breeding: Add brief definition or description
• Transgenic plants: Add brief definition or description
•  Horizontal gene transfer in plants: Any process in which an organism transfers genetic material (i.e. DNA) to another cell that is not its cellular offspring, as distinct from vertical gene transfer where genes are inherited from parents or ancestors in a lineage of cellular organisms. ^[e]
•  Classical plant breeding: The application of genetic principles to improve cultivated plants. ^[e]
•  Biotechnology and plant breeding: The use of microorganisms, such as bacteria or yeasts, or biological substances, such as enzymes, to improve plants and prevent plant diseases. ^[e]
•  Cisgenic plants: Process that inhibits the flow of genetic information to protein synthesis. ^[e]

•  wheat: Grass crop grown worldwide and used in making flour and fermentation for alcohol production. ^[e]
•  maize: Cereal grain domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the world, and one of the most widely grown crops in the Americas. ^[e]
• Rice: Add brief definition or description