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Selective breeding has led to enhancement of yields and crop quality in agriculture (Borlaug, 1983), and similar techniques are being used to develop improved seaweed strains for aquaculture (Patwary & van der Meer, 1983; Tseng, 1984; Bidwell et al., 1985). Recent efforts in agricultural research have examined plant populations native to unfavorable environments, as a potential source of useful genotypic variation (Boyer, 1982). This approach may also be useful to aquaculture, but has not yet been widely applied.
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Gerard, V.A., DuBois, K., Greene, R. (1987). Growth responses of two Laminaria saccharina populations to environmental variation. In: Ragan, M.A., Bird, C.J. (eds) Twelfth International Seaweed Symposium. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 41. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4057-4_34
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