Breeding plants
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1. ) A process for breeding plants wherein the influence of environment-associated phenotype is reduced compared to conventional breeding processes, which process comprises growing plants of a species in an array of containers charged with growing medium of uniform characteristics in an environment of controlled climatic conditions with controlled supply of nutrients and feed water and changing the positions of the containers within the environment as required to ensure at least substantially uniform exposure of all plants in the containers to conditions in the environment, and which process further comprises the step of selecting plants for further breeding or for commercial use by comparing the phenotypic characteristics of the plants.
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A process for breeding plants which comprises growing plants of a species in an array of containers charged with growing medium of uniform characteristics in an environment of controlled climatic conditions with controlled supply of nutrients and feed water and changing the positions of the containers within the environment as required to ensure at least substantially uniform exposure of all plants in the containers to conditions in the environment. A process for the breeding of open pollinating plants in a greenhouse environment is also provided.
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- 1. ) A process for breeding plants wherein the influence of environment-associated phenotype is reduced compared to conventional breeding processes, which process comprises growing plants of a species in an array of containers charged with growing medium of uniform characteristics in an environment of controlled climatic conditions with controlled supply of nutrients and feed water and changing the positions of the containers within the environment as required to ensure at least substantially uniform exposure of all plants in the containers to conditions in the environment, and which process further comprises the step of selecting plants for further breeding or for commercial use by comparing the phenotypic characteristics of the plants.
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12. ) A process for improved growing of plants for phenotyping (selecting the most desired genotypes based on phenotype scoring), the method consisting of displacing the plants automatically during their growing cycle so as to avoid extended exposure to a particular micro-environment, thereby reducing the influence of micro-environment variations on the phenotype of the plants.
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