Grimberg, Åsa
(2014).
Plant breeder's toolbox through history.
Bioscience explained. 8
:1
, 1-6
[Journal article]
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Abstract
More than ten thousand years ago people began to cultivate the land and grow different plants. Thus they did not need to wander around to hunt and collect their
food. That was the time when plant breeding history began. Wild plants were adapted to become crops when humans began to pick and sow the seeds from the plants with the best properties. They chose plants with for example many seeds that remained long on the plant and thus gave them a lot of food. Through thousands of years, it was in this way that plants bred in agriculture have provided the foundation on which today's plant breeding is based. This method can be called selection breeding, since the selection of properties had not occurred naturally without human intervention. Since then, the plant breeding has evolved to include more advanced tools to modify and combine plant genomes to achieve improved properties of crops for adaptation to human agriculture and quality needs.
Authors/Creators: | Grimberg, Åsa |
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Title: | Plant breeder's toolbox through history |
Series/Journal: | Bioscience explained (2000-2718) |
Year of publishing : | 2014 |
Volume: | 8 |
Number: | 1 |
Page range: | 1-6 |
Number of Pages: | 6 |
Publisher: | University of Gothenburg; University of Reading |
ISSN: | 2000-2718 |
Language: | English |
Publication Type: | Journal article |
Refereed: | Yes |
Article category: | Popular |
Version: | Published version |
Full Text Status: | Public |
Agris subject categories.: | F Plant production > F30 Plant genetics and breeding |
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 4 Agricultural Sciences > 404 Agricultural Biotechnology > Genetics and Breeding |
Agrovoc terms: | plant breeding, history |
Keywords: | plant breeding, history |
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-2512 |
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-2512 |
ID Code: | 12023 |
Faculty: | LTV - Fakulteten för landskapsarkitektur, trädgårds- och växtproduktionsvetenskap |
Department: | (LTJ, LTV) > Department of Plant Breeding (from 130101) |
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector |
Deposited On: | 30 Mar 2015 07:42 |
Metadata Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2020 14:17 |
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