Traditional Breeding

Traditional breeding, also known as conventional or selective breeding, is the process of mating plants or animals with desirable traits to produce offspring that inherit those traits. This method has been used for thousands of years, allowing farmers and breeders to enhance qualities like size, flavor, or resistance to disease. By carefully selecting which individuals to breed over several generations, traditional breeding aims to improve the overall quality and productivity of the population. It relies on natural genetic variation and does not involve modern genetic engineering techniques like gene editing.