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The history of plant breeding started with selecting plants with especially desired traits. This was followed by cross-
breeding, hybrid and mutation breeding, later genetic engineering and marker-assisted breeding, to name just a few.
Continuous development was necessary in order to find new solutions to the steadily increasing needs of humanity.
We now have the opportunity to expand the breeder’s toolkit further

12,000 B. C.

Selection

It all began with that extra edge. In the Neolithic age, farmers found certain grain plants to be more robust and
nutritious than others and kept the high- quality seeds for sowing in the next year. Thus, they only cultivated plants
with positive traits, and the first crop plants came into existence. The principle of selection had been established.

 1960s
 Mutation breeding