Not exact matches
Even if you go through the cycle of selecting generations of pods, you are
still breeding plants that descend from just two original
plants.
Other technological developments — chemical fertilizers, pesticides,
plant breeding and so on — make essential contributions, but mechanization is
still the outstanding factor.
Armed with the new knowledge, the researchers were able to
breed submergence - resistant
plants that
still produced decent rice yields, the team reports 10 August in Nature.