hybridization

1. Producing offspring from parents of different stock.

Notes

Hybridization is used extensively in agriculture, where new forms of hardy and disease-resistant plants are produced commercially.

Example Sentences

Herders sometimes favor hybridization because genes from wild progenitors are thought to enhance the hardiness of domestic stock.

From Science Daily

Baker notes that the lineage that led to blueberries, for instance, is the result of an ancient hybridization between dogwoods and the ancestors of coffee plants, daisies, and mints.

From Science Magazine

This phenomenon, known as subspecies hybridization, can be an important path for species to adapt to a changing environment.

From Science Daily

The work contributes to a growing notion among evolutionary biologists that hybridization can sometimes increase, not decrease, the diversity of species within an ecosystem.

From Science Magazine

Arabica formed as a natural hybridization between Coffea canephora and Coffea eugenioides, whereupon it received two sets of chromosomes from each parent.

From Science Daily

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