What is conventional breeding?

Conventional breeding (classical breeding or traditional breeding), is the development of new

varieties (cultivars) of plants by using older tools and natural processes, as opposed to the newer, more
sophisticated and sometimes radical tools of molecular plant breeding (Jain and Kharkwal 2004).

Mutation breeding
Mutation breeding, sometimes referred to as "variation breeding", is the process of exposing seeds to
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