It involved research in genetics, plant breeding, plant pathology, entomology, agronomy, soil science, and cereal technology.

它涉及遗传学、植物育种、植物病理学、昆虫学、农学、土壤科学和谷物技术的研究。

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And if it is, why isn't plant breeding of any sort unnatural?

如果是，为什么植物没有繁衍出任何非自然的植物呢？

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In 1953 a grand estate called Gogerddan, close to my family home in Ceredigion, became the home of the Welsh Plant Breeding Station.

1953年，在锡尔迪金我家附近的一处名为Gogerddan的产业，成为威尔士植物育种站之家。

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She says combining many different genes into one plant without genetic engineering requires a lot of plant breeding.

VOA: special.2011.02.22

But plant breeding reduced the fibers, and now the beans are known as snap beans.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

It calls for genetic improvement of crops through conventional plant breeding and through direct genetic modification of crops.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

But, more significantly, the genetically modified varieties tended to do worse than those produced by traditional methods of plant breeding.

ECONOMIST: GM crop plants are less weed-like than weedy

The head of the Institute's Genetics and Plant Breeding department, Jawahar Ram Sharma, said his team had genetically converted the poppy seed, which has naturally occurring narcotic properties, into a new, non-narcotic variety.

BBC: Addictive-free poppy seed developed

In traditional plant breeding, some inbred maize plants destined to be crossed with others have their male, pollen-producing tassels cut off to prevent self-fertilisation (maize is a horticultural hermaphrodite, carrying both male and female sex organs).

ECONOMIST: Terminator genes