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A brief and general description of mutation breeding is provided. Mutation has been a successful strategy in producing over 3000 mutant cultivars in over 200 crop species worldwide. Oil palm is one of the few major crop species, and the only oil crop not to have been improved by mutation breeding. However, pioneering work in mutation breeding in oil palm did take place in Ghana in the 1970s. This produced the first M1 population in oil palm and has only recently been progressed by developing M2 populations and in discovering mutants for crop improvement. |
