Since he dominated agriculture and livestock, man has been trying to domesticate and change nature as he pleases for millennia: the tomatoes we eat today have little to do with the wild tomatoes they once were; or our adorable and furry dog pets, in many cases they are already very far from the wolves that were their ancestors. With the arrival of science and the improvement of technologies, methods were refined to achieve faster and more precise results. This is how random mutagenesis appeared in the second half of the 20th century. It is a technique that 'forces' changes in the DNA of the seeds through radiation or... See more
