Ornamental plants are economically important worldwide. Both growers and consumers ask continuously for new, improved varieties. Although there are numerous orn

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Plants have been successfully selectively bred for thousands of years, culminating in incredible yields, quality, resistance and so on that we see in our modern

The development of new plant varieties is a long and tedious process involving the generation of large seedling populations for the selection of the best indivi