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Most consideration was given to the question of the potential usefulness in plant breeding of the new technologies, such as tissue culture, microspore culture, and protoplast culture. Are improvements in crop plants more likely to come from these techniques than from conventional breeding procedures? Particular attention was paid to the transfer of desirable characters to crop plants from related species.
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Kimber, G., Sears, E.R. (1980). Cytogenetics and Crop Improvement. In: Lewis, W.H. (eds) Polyploidy. Basic Life Sciences, vol 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3069-1_31
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