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Plant breeding is essentially an election made by man of the best plants within a variable population as a potential cultivar. In other words plant breeding is a ‘selection’ made possible by the existence of ‘variability’. The main objective, in the past, has been to increase yield by improvement of the potential productivity followed by the successful expression of that potential.
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Sánchez-Monge, E. (1993). Introduction. In: Hayward, M.D., Bosemark, N.O., Romagosa, I., Cerezo, M. (eds) Plant Breeding. Plant Breeding Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1524-7_1
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