Hybridizing plants has created revolutionary increases in production during the last century.
In plants, a hybrid is a plant that is created by cross-pollinating specific plants. Hybrid breeders are looking to improve certain aspects of a plant. This could be to increase the yield, create disease-resistant varieties, better uniformity of plant and fruit size and even color. Although you can save seed from hybrid varieties, they don’t produce true copies of the original hybrid plant.
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