Plant breeding requirements for applied molecular biology.(Symposium)

From: Crop Science | Date: November 1, 2004| Author: Goodman, Major M. | Copyright information

PLANT BREEDING is unlikely to be radically altered by genetic engineering despite progress in genomics. New traits will ultimately be added to today's breeding goals, but most are likely to require several decades of development. Many have decided that the future of plant breeding lies in genomics, relying on claims that molecular genetics has revolutionized the time frame for product development. "Seldom has it been pointed out that it is going to take as long to breed a molecular...

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