Plant breeding involves manipulating a plant's genes to produce desired traits. The process involves identifying a beneficial trait, extracting the genes responsible, inserting them into other plants, growing the plants, and allowing the genes to express themselves, resulting in crops with increased yields that benefit farmers. Genetically modifying plants has potential to solve world hunger and malnutrition problems by engineering crops that produce more food and nutrients and are resistant to pests and disease.

1. By Jonathan Le

2.  Plant
breeding is the manipulation of a plant’s
genes to get a desired trait.

3. Step 1. Find a new trait.
Step 2. Grab the genes with that trait.
Step 3. DNA insertion.
Step 4. Planting.
Step 5. The genes express themselves.
Step 6. Farmers get the benefit of
increased crop yield.

4.  People breed plants to get a desired trait that the
plant did not have.
 People try and improve the positive features of
the plant and eliminate the negative features.

5.  Breeding plants could make them produce more
food and more nutritious food.
 Genetically modified plants have the potential to
solve many of the world’s hunger and.
malnutrition problems.

6.  Plantscan be genetically engineered to produce
more power, more fruits with more nutrients, and
the ability to fight off any insect, bacteria, virus,
and disease.

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