1.   All have been selected by generations of gardeners and, more recently, plant breeders.

2.   For years plant breeders have attempted, with varying degrees of success, to breed such characteristics into new crop varieties, eg, mildew resistance in cereals.

3.   An observant plant breeder took cuttings and propagated the branch, resulting in a variegated euonymus.

4.   And remember, plant breeders get to name their new creations.

5.   Biotechnology companies and plant breeders, who had previously stonewalled the process, joined with negotiators from the industrialized countries to back the plan.

6.   But an independent plant breeder working out of his backyard greenhouse is ready to plow up this metropolis thick with evergreen azaleas.

7.   But several American plant breeders were more cautious.

8.   For centuries, plant breeders have mated the plants bearing the biggest fruits to produce plants with even bigger fruit, and the hardiest plants to produce hardier ones.

9.   He once asked plant breeders at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines what they would choose if they could have genetic engineers insert any gene in rice.

10.   Most of the human names in your garden trace back to plant breeders and their families.