- Industry: Agriculture
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A sudden heritable change in an organism other than that due to the incorporation of genetic material from other sources. Most mutations are within the limit of a single gene.
Industry:Agriculture
A variant from the normal or wild type that is inherited; the product of mutation.
Industry:Agriculture
A physical or chemical agent capable of producing a heritable change in the DNA sequence of an organism.
Industry:Agriculture
The growing of seed for sale or wide distribution as a planting material in a given community or for specific research.
Industry:Agriculture
Resistance to several stresses such as insects, nematodes, diseases, drought, and nutritional deficiencies.
Industry:Agriculture
Breeding lines composed of a number of backcross derivatives of a recurrent parent, each carrying a different resistant gene.
Industry:Agriculture
A variety composed by mixing several isogenic or near-isogenic lines.
Industry:Agriculture
Mixing seeds of several resistant lines which differ only in the resistance genes they carry.
Industry:Agriculture
