plant breeder
Creates new varieties
A plant breeder develops new varieties of crops or ornamental plants through selective breeding, crossbreeding, or genetic modification.
The goal is typically to improve traits like yield, disease resistance, flavor, or appearance: Plant breeders developed drought-tolerant wheat varieties for arid regions.
The work combines botany, genetics, and agricultural science.
- horticulturistPlant cultivation specialist
- hybridizerOne who combines species
- cultivarBred plant variety
- seed catalogPublication listing plants available
- seedlingRecently sprouted young plant
grafting · pollination · greenhouse · nursery · genetics · crossbreeding · propagation · selective · harvest · germplasm · gene bank · rootstock · pollen · seeds · orchardist · agronomist · green thumb · varietals
- growersfarmer, farmers, crop farmer, cultivators, organic farmer
- plant careersbotanist, florist, arborist, nursery worker, rose grower
- plant industrynursery, greenhouse, florist, garden center, tree farm
- plant workershorticulturist, gardener, landscaper, nurseryman, groundskeeper
- agricultural scientistsagronomist, horticulturist, agricultural engineer, pomologist, viticulturist
- BotanistsCarl Linnaeus, ethnobotanist, paleobotanist, dendrologist, herbarium
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