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Hybridization   /hˌaɪbrədəzˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Hybridization

noun
1.
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids.  Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridizing, interbreeding.






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"Hybridization" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the qualities of the parent plants and at other times have such qualities more markedly than did their parents. Thus they often produce an interesting new kind of plant. Sometimes we are able by hybridization to combine in one plant the good qualities of two other plants and thus make a great advance in agriculture. The new forms brought about by hybridization may be fixed, or made permanent, by such selection as is mentioned in Section XVIII. Hybridization ...
— Agriculture for Beginners - Revised Edition • Charles William Burkett

... the coffee plant by cutting has two distinct advantages over propagation by seed, in that it spares the expense of seed production, which is enormous, and it gives also a method of hybridization, which, if used, might lead not only to very interesting but also to ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers



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