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Plant mutation breeding, also called variation breeding, is a method that uses physical radiation or chemical means to induce spontaneous genetic variation in plants to develop new crop varieties.

David Medvigy, Gangsheng Wang, Qing Zhu, William J. Riley, Annette M. Trierweiler, Bonnie G. Waring, Xiangtao Xu and Jennifer S. Powers Censuses of tropical forest plots reveal large variation in ...

Crops increasingly need to thrive in a broader range of conditions, including drought, salinity, and heat. Traditional plant breeding can select for desirable traits, but is limited by the genetic ...