A term used to describe organisms obtained through human-induced breeding. In viticulture, this term refers to new grape varieties which, from the mid-19th century onwards and increasingly from the 20th century, were produced through the deliberate crossing of two selected parent grape varieties and through the controlled sowing of manually fertilised seeds, and which were selected following several years of testing the seedlings, named and introduced to the market. It is possible that experiments of this kind were already being carried out in antiquity, but there is no written evidence of this.
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