cross-breeding
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“We are doing this cross-breeding all the time,” Ovrebo said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
The Reed, Kachuck said, spoils quickly after being picked, but could be made hardier via genetic intervention, such as cross-breeding.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2025
Mr. Currie of South Carolina spent 10 years cross-breeding peppers to create the new strain after previously breaking the heat record with the Carolina Reaper.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
The team at John Innes is taking some of the older varieties and cross-breeding them with modern ones - and they’ve had some success.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2022
He told me he could alter the colour of their plumage in three years by cross-breeding, but that it required fully six to alter the shape of the bird.
From Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Somerville, Mary
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