Editorial Note on Plant Breeding

Abstract

Plant breeding is the science of modifying plant traits to produce desired characteristics. It has been used to improve the nutritional quality of human and animal products. Plant breeding is the science of modifying plant traits to produce desired characteristics. It has been used to improve the nutritional quality of human and animal products. Plant breeding aims to create crop varieties with unique and superior traits that can be used in a variety of agricultural applications. The most commonly studied traits include biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, grain or biomass yield, end-use quality characteristics such as taste or concentrations of specific biological molecules (proteins, sugars, lipids, vitamins, fibres), and processing ease (harvesting, milling, baking, malting, blending, etc.). Plant breeding can be done in a variety of ways, from simply selecting plants with desirable characteristics for propagation to methods that rely on genetics and chromosome knowledge to more complex molecular techniques (see cultigen and cultivar). The type of qualitative or quantitative traits a plant will have is determined by its genes. Plant breeders strive to create specific plant outcomes and, in some cases, new plant varieties. Individuals such as gardeners and farmers, as well as professional plant breeders employed by government institutions, universities, crop-specific industry associations, and research centres, practise it all over the world. to