Plant breeding in the turn of the millennium

The transition from hunting and gathering to farming happened about 10,000 years ago, independently and diffusely in several places in the world. Plant breeders were responsible for genetic progress in a number of crop species. It included hybrids, the introgression of wild species genes and also th...

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Main Authors: Aluízio Borém, Sandra Cristina Kothe Milach
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar) 1998-01-01
Series:Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89131998000300001