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Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production
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Why is mutational breeding preffered over conventional breeding

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The availability of limited number of disease resistance genes that are present wild varietiesof plants make conventional breeding less efficient. Whereas mutational breeding allows new genes to be formed and selected. Thus plants with desirable qualities can be produced.

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