The mutation process generates random genetic variations, resulting in mutant plants with new and useful traits. Classical breeding in its most simple form involves the selective propagation of plants ...

Have you ever wondered where our agricultural crops come from? And what were they like thousands of years ago, or hundreds of years ago? Our food crops today are in fact very different from the ...

Selective breeding has dramatically transformed dogs over the last 100 years, often at the expense of their health. Modern standards have led to exaggerated physical traits in breeds like Pugs ...

Humans have bred food crops from wild plants and domesticated animals for thousands of years. Selective breeding close selective breedingAn artificial process in which organisms with desired ...

Spring 1924 was the high water mark for the Eugenics Record Office, a Cold Spring Harbor research facility whose staff hoped to use selective breeding ... healthier plants, a phenomenon called ...

The plant’s sprawling growth and habit of dropping its small orange fruits on the ground before they’re ripe make it an ... the groundcherry over thousands of years of selective breeding, as ...

German pig skulls changed significantly due to selective breeding. Scientists found shorter snouts and flatter foreheads in ...