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Plant Breeders' rights
New technologies for plant breeding
Phenotyping technologies
Phenotyping technologies: aerial photography
Aerial photography: example
Transgenics
Marker-Assisted Breeding (MAB)
DNA sequencing
Next generation sequencing
Genotyping by reduced representation
Genomic selection
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS)
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DNA sequencing

DNA sequencing is the process of identifying the unique order of DNA nucleotides (adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine; abbreviated as A,C,G, and T) that make up an organism's genome.

This information can be used by breeders in assessing genetic diversity, identifying markers for marker-assisted breeding, variety identification, looking at possible gene functions, etc.