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hybridization

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  1. Producing offspring from parents of different stock.


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Hybridization is used extensively in agriculture, where new forms of hardy and disease-resistant plants are produced commercially.

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"Hybridization played a much bigger role in our findings than we anticipated," Foley noted.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024

As he explained when he presented his historic paper "Experiments in Plant Hybridization" in 1865, Mendel had spent nine years testing 28,000 plants, most of them pea plants.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2023

Hybridization has profound implications for weathering climate change—Homo sapiens is a great example of this.

From Scientific American • Aug. 15, 2022

Hybridization is the crossing of dissimilar individuals to bring together the best of both organisms.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018

Hybridization and vegetative multiplication of the hybrids no doubt occur in nature, but they are very rare, when compared with the ordinary method of propagation by seed.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de