It ensures adaptability and resilience, allowing farmers to cultivate the crop in various environments and climates, thus increasing overall production and food security.
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Interspecific hybridisation can combine desirable traits from two different species within the same genus, potentially resulting in crops with enhanced characteristics.
The main goal is to find crop varieties that can give a good yield and possess other useful characteristics such as disease resistance and improved product quality.
Genetically modified crops can be created by introducing a gene that provides the desired characteristic.
The three types of hybridisation are intervarietal (between different varieties), interspecific (between two different species of the same genus), and intergeneric (between different genera).