Cross-breeding and selection
Specific determination of a plant’s genetic make-up by crossing selected parent plants and subsequent selection of the offspring was first practised approx. 150 years ago.
Trial field in Belgium
The genetic traits of the parent plants can be reshuffled by sexually cross-breeding selected plants.
A large number of new genotypes emerge out of which the most suitable are selected in a further process.
Each crop species requires a different technological method of cross-breeding.
