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Hybridization is used extensively in agriculture, where new forms of hardy and disease-resistant plants are produced commercially.
Vocabulary lists containing hybridization
Growth, Development and Reproduction of Organisms - Middle School
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Growth, Development and Reproduction of Organisms - High School
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Hybridization is a common form of diversification in plants, so much so that nearly every group of plants you might come across has had a hybridization event occur at some point in its evolutionary history.
From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 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 may turn out to be the most powerful engine of new species and new adaptations," Seehausen says.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 9, 2018
Hybridization has been the chief means of improving the grape.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
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