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Throughout the ages, ornamentals have been a source of joy for many. The pleasure derived from growing and admiring plants, shrubs and trees with various growth habits, different colors and types of flowers, leaves with aberrant shapes or variegation patterns, etc., has led to considerable effort by amateurs and professionals alike to procure or breed new forms or cultivars (which in practice are also often indicated as varieties) for all kinds of ornamentals. In the late 19th and early 20th century, commercial companies became more and more interested in this profitable field of activity. In industrialized countries, applied breeding work is now done for the most part by commercial companies. In contrast, universities and government institutions are responsible for most ornamental breeding in less affluent countries.
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Van Harten, A.M. (2002). Mutation Breeding of Vegetatively Propagated Ornamentals. In: Vainstein, A. (eds) Breeding For Ornamentals: Classical and Molecular Approaches. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0956-9_6
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