PLANT BREEDER

Domain	Definition
Occupations	Plans and carries out breeding studies to develop and improve varieties of crops: Improves specific characteristics, such as yield, size, quality, maturity, and resistance to frost, drought, disease and insect pests in plants, utilizing principles of genetics and knowledge of plant growth. Develops variety and selects most desirable plants for crossing. Breeds plants, using methods such as inbreeding, crossbreeding, backcrossing, outcrossing, mutating, or interspecific hybridization and selection. Selects progeny having desired characteristics and continues breeding and selection process to reach desired objectives. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photo Album: PLANT BREEDER

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	In the 1940's, along came a USDA plant breeder who set out to bring us a better watermelon. The result was "that gray melon from Charleston," formally called the Charleston Gray. Its oblong shape and hard rind made it easy to stack and ship. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..		Biochemist Kevin Young (left) and David Ertl, a plant breeder with Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., analyze hybrid corn samples. High inorganic phosphorus in low-phytic-acid kernels turns the test solution dark blue, while normal kernels show light. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..
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Modern Translation: PLANT BREEDER

Language		Translations for "PLANT BREEDER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		froeavler (breeder, seed breeder, seed grower, seed producer), foraedler (breeder, converter, refiner, seed breeder). (various references)

Dutch		kweker (breeder, seed breeder). (various references)

Finnish		ylläpitojalostaja (breeder, seed breeder), kasvinjalostaja (breeder, seed breeder). (various references)

French		sélectionneur de semences, obtenteur. (various references)

German		Züchter (breeder, cultivator, culturist, grower, growers, keeper), Saatzüchter (breeder, seed breeder). (various references)

Greek		δημιουργός νέων ποικιλιών σπόρων προς σπορά (breeder, seed breeder). (various references)

Italian		selezionatore di sementi (breeder, seed breeder), fitotecnico (breeder, seed breeder), costitutore (founder). (various references)

Pig Latin		antplay eederbray

Portuguese		produtor (generative, grower, manufacturer, producer, productive). (various references)

Spanish		seleccionador de semillas (breeder, seed breeder), seleccionador de estirpes (breeder, seed breeder), obtentor de nuevas variedades (breeder, seed breeder), obtentor (breeder, seed breeder), fitotecnista (breeder, seed breeder). (various references)

Swedish		växtförädlare (breeder, seed breeder). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: PLANT BREEDER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-e-l-n-p-r-r-t"
	-2 letters: deterrable, penetrable, renderable.
	-3 letters: bartender, enterable, partnered, prebendal, pretender, realtered, relearned, repaneled, replanted, repleader.
	-4 letters: antlered, bantered, banterer, barreled, bartered, bedplate, beleaped, departee, endplate, lateener, paltered, palterer, panderer, parented, peltered, prerenal, reearned, relearnt, relented, rentable, repartee, repealed, repealer, repeated, repeater, repented, repenter, repetend, replated, rerepeat, tenderer, tenebrae, treadler.
	-5 letters: adepter, alerted, alerter, altered, alterer.
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Specialty Definition: PLANT BREEDER