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In most plant breeding programs the manipulation of the genetic composition of the variety under construction consists of the selection of a desirable combination of alleles derived from related cultivars (the primary gene pool). Less frequently, a slightly more distant form of the same species or occasionally even a different but closely related species (the secondary gene pool) is used. The combination of selected alleles of specific genes or on more complex combinations of less clearly defined gene complexes. This is the simples form of genetic manipulation.
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Sybenga, J. (1992). Manipulation of Genome Composition: A. Gene Transfer. In: Cytogenetics in Plant Breeding. Monographs on Theoretical and Applied Genetics, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84083-8_10
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