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Agronomic management of plants is a powerful evolutionary force acting on their populations. The management of cultivated plants is carried out by the traditional process of human selection or plant breeding and, more recently, by the technologies used in genetic engineering (GE). Even though crop m...

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Main Authors: Alejandra Hernández-Terán, Ana Wegier, Mariana Benítez, Rafael Lira, Ana E. Escalante
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2017.02030/full