Plant breeding
（重定向自Vegetable breeding）
![The Yecoro wheat (right) cultivar is sensitive to salinity, plants resulting from a hybrid cross with cultivar W4910 (left) show greater tolerance to high salinity](/Images/godic/202502/19/Wheat_selection_k10183-13814.jpg")
![Garton's catalogue from 1902](/Images/godic/202502/19/Gartons-1902-Catalogue3814.jpg")
![In vitro-culture of Vitis (grapevine), Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute](/Images/godic/202502/19/FA_Geisenheim223814.jpg")
![Modern facilities in molecular biology have converted classical plant breeding to molecular plant breeding](/Images/godic/202502/19/Adelport_2703814.jpg")
Plant breeding is the art and science of changing the traits of plants in order to produce desired characteristics. Plant breeding can be accomplished through many different techniques ranging from simply selecting plants with desirable characteristics for propagation, to more complex molecular techniques (see cultigen and cultivar).