| 单词 | plant breeding |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplant breeding plant breeding n. the cultivation of plants in order to improve existing varieties or produce new ones. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] multiplicationa1387 multiplying1707 plant breeding1896 1896 Science 25 Sept. 440/2 The speaker..remarked that groups of plants which show marked irregularities in forms are nearly always fertile subjects for plant-breeding. 1970 R. Gorer Devel. Garden Flowers i. 21 The essential basis of plant breeding is selection. 1995 New Scientist 7 Jan. 23/1 It's by no means certain that genetic engineering of such multigenic traits—still at least a decade away—will beat conventional plant breeding toward this end. < as lemmas |
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