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genetic purity
Trueness to type; seeds or plants genetic potential. The likelihood that the genetic material (improved or primitive) is capable of producing many new genotypic combinations from stored variousness by hybridization and subsequent segregation, recombination, and selection under varying pressures conforming to the characteristics of the variety, line, or hybrids.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Agriculture
- Category: Rice science
- Company: IRRI
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- D.Herbert
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