Chance discovery leads to plant breeding breakthrough

Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 08:21 in Biology & Nature

A reliable method for producing plants that carry genetic material from only one of their parents has been discovered by plant biologists at UC Davis. The technique, to be published March 25 in the journal Nature, could dramatically speed up the breeding of crop plants for desirable traits...

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