Knowra Cultivar Cultivar A cultivated plant grouping selected for distinctive traits and maintained through propagation. Cultivars are identified by names such as ‘Gala’ apple or ‘Peace’ rose.
Cultivated plant : A plant deliberately grown or managed by people for food, materials, ornament, or other uses. Cultivars are selected groupings within plants grown and maintained by people.
Selective breeding : Choosing organisms with desired traits to produce offspring more likely to show those traits. Repeated selection can establish a stable, recognizable cultivated plant grouping.
Botanical variety : A formal taxonomic rank below species, denoted by the abbreviation var. It is a botanical classification, unlike a cultivar defined through cultivation and nomenclature.
Apple cultivar : A named cultivated grouping of apple trees maintained for traits such as flavor, storage, or harvest time. Apple varieties such as ‘Gala’ and ‘Granny Smith’ are familiar cultivar examples.
Plant propagation : The production of new plants by sexual or asexual methods. Propagation preserves a cultivar’s selected traits across generations.
Hybridization : The crossing of genetically distinct plants to combine or recombine their traits. A deliberate cross may produce the plant selected as the origin of a cultivar.
Landrace : A locally adapted, genetically variable population of a domesticated plant maintained through traditional cultivation. A landrace is usually a diverse population, rather than a uniform named cultivar.
Rose cultivar : A named cultivated grouping of roses selected for traits such as flower form, color, or fragrance. Rose breeding and propagation produce many distinct named cultivars.
Clonal propagation : Asexual reproduction that produces genetically near-identical copies of an organism. Many cultivars retain their defining traits by copying a selected plant.
Grafting : A propagation technique that joins plant tissues so one plant grows on another plant’s root system. Many fruit-tree cultivars are maintained by grafting rather than seed.
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