Implications of the New Genetics in Horticultural Plant Breeding
in HortScienceAbstract
This is an age of transition for horticultural plant breeding. The recent developments in physiological and biochemical genetics and their application to plant breeding signify only the beginning of this new era. To define the term New Genetics is extremely difficult especially when it is applied to horticultural plant breeding. For the purpose of this paper New Genetics will mean all of. those methods, machines, ideas and information that can assist in the future breeding of better horticultural plants.
Contributor Notes
Assistant Professor of Plant Breeding, Department of Horticulture
