In agriculture and gardening, hybrid seed is seed produced by artificially cross-pollinatedplants. Hybrids are bred to improve the characteristics of the resulting plants, such as better yield, greater uniformity, improved color, disease resistance, and so forth. Today, hybrid seed is predominant in agriculture and home gardening, and is one of the main contributing factors to the dramatic rise in agricultural output during the last half of the 20th century. In the US, the commercial market was launched in the 1920s, with the first hybrid corn. Hybrid seed cannot be saved, as the seed from the first generation of hybrid plants does not reliably produce true copies, therefore, new seed must be purchased for each planting.
Hybrids are bred to improve the characteristics of the resulting plants, such as better yield, greater uniformity, improved color, disease resistance, and so forth.
Today, hybridseed is predominant in agriculture and home gardening, and is one of the main contributing factors to the dramatic rise in agricultural output during the last half of the 20th century.
Hybridseed cannot be saved, as the seed from the first generation of hybridplants does not reliably produce true copies, therefore, new seed must be purchased for each planting.
The seed company sells hybridseed to the farmer, and the farmer expects this seed to be fertile.
If the hybridseed sold to the farmer was sterile, the seed company would have to provide a pollinator source to be planted along with with the hybridseed to obtain the seed.
These seed stocks had to be manually detasseled, and its hybrid performance was not as good as the previous material, but it did provide a source of seed that was resistant to the disease and saved the United States from losing the entire hybridcorn harvest that year.
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