Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The systematic management of plants by methods designed to secure improved types.
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Examples
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Using plant-breeding technology, a specific Monsanto patented soybean variety will then provide high levels of beta-conglycinin, a naturally occurring texture and flavour improving compound.
Archive 2006-06-01 Steve Carper 2006
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He conducts plant-breeding research and writes in Salina, Kansas.
The ignored risks of America's most popular antibiotics 2008
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He conducts plant-breeding research and writes in Salina, Kansas.
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Using plant-breeding technology, a specific Monsanto patented soybean variety will then provide high levels of beta-conglycinin, a naturally occurring texture and flavour improving compound.
The Future of Soy Milk Steve Carper 2006
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He conducts plant-breeding research and writes in Salina, Kansas.
It will take more than gardening to fix our food system 2008
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He conducts plant-breeding research and writes in Salina, Kansas.
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The aim of this Australian-funded project is to speed up the development of advanced, more robust sorghum crops through the use of advanced biotechnology – in particular a plant-breeding process known as marker-assisted selection
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"We're saying this is just another plant-breeding technique," says Eric Flamm, deputy director of the FDA's Office of Biotechnology.
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He conducts plant-breeding research and writes in Salina, Kansas.
Boatloads of Trouble 2008
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But for a geneticist, a DNA altered through classical plant-breeding methods does not differ from a DNA altered through biotechnology.
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