植物育種

植物育種（）是指透過改變植物的特徵而產生所期望的特性的藝術和科學。Breeding Field Crops. 1995. Sleper and Poehlman. Page 3植物配種現使用於為人類和動物改善產品中營養的品質。 植物育種的目標是培育出具有獨特和優越性狀、適合各種應用的作物品種。最常被提及的農業性狀是那些與生物和非生物脅迫耐受性、穀物或生物量產量、最終用途品質特徵（例如味道或特定生物分子（蛋白質、糖、脂質、維生素、纖維）的濃度）以及易於加工有關的特性。

植物育種可以透過許多不同的技術進行，從簡單地選擇具有所需繁殖特性的植物，到利用遺傳學和染色體知識的方法，再到更複雜的分子技術。植物中的基因決定了其具有何種類型的質量或數量性狀。植物育種者努力創造特定的植物結果和潛在的新植物品種，並在此過程中將該品種的遺傳多樣性縮小到特定的幾種生物型。

 參見 
農作物
糧食安全
馴化
數量性狀基因座
異儲型種子
生物多樣性公約
名古屋議定書
國際植物新品種保護聯盟

 參考來源 

 普遍的 

 Briggs, F.N. and Knowles, P.F. 1967. Introduction to Plant Breeding. Reinhold Publishing Corporation, New York.
 Curry, Helen Anne. Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America () U of Chicago Press, 2016. x, 285 pp.

 The Origins of Agriculture and Crop Domestication – The Harlan Symposium
 Schlegel, Rolf (2009) Encyclopedic Dictionary of Plant Breeding  2nd ed. (),  CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA, pp 584
 Schlegel, Rolf  (2007) Concise Encyclopedia of Crop Improvement: Institutions, Persons, Theories, Methods, and Histories  (),  CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA, pp 423
 Schlegel, Rolf (2014) Dictionary of Plant Breeding, 2nd ed., (), CRC Press, Boca Raton, Taylor & Francis Group, Inc., New York, USA, pp 584



 Thro, A.M.; Spillane, C. (1999) Biotechnology assisted participatory plant breeding: Complement or contradiction?  CGIAR Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis, Working Document No.4, CIAT: Cali. 150pp.


 外部連結 

 Plant Breeding and Genomics eXtension Community of Practice – education and training materials for plant breeders and allied professionals
 Plant Breeding Updates
 Hybridization of Crop Plants – large practical reference on plant hybridization
 Infography about the History of Plant Breeding 
 Glossary of plant breeding terminology by the Open Plant Breeding Foundation 
 National Association of Plant Breeders (NAPB) 
 The Global Partnership Initiative for Plant Breeding Capacity Building – GIPB
 FAO/IAEA Programme Mutant Variety Database 
 FDA Statement of Policy – Foods Derived from New Plant Varieties 
A Breed Apart: The Plant Breeder's Guide to Preventing Patents through Defensive Publication  by Cydnee V. Bence & Emily J. Spiegel, 2019

Category:植物育種學