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Disease escape

Phenomenon that a diseased seed plant still produces healthy seed, because the pathogen does not…

Domestication

The process whereby humans change plant properties by selection and breeding, so the plants become…

Dominant epistasis

Type of epistasis where the dominant allele A is epistatic over (suppresses) alleles B/b. In…

Doubled haploid

A genotype, originating from a haploid plant, after chromosome doubling. Haploids are valuable genetic material…

Drift

(plant breeding) A genetic phenomenon that, in the course of time, a seed propagated cultivar…