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tandem selection

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-006257

A selection method to improve several traits. Selection is practiced on one trait for a given period of time. When the desired level of improvement is reached in one trait, it is followed by selection for a second trait, and so on until all important traits are selected.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-006257
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectResearch, Technology, Methods
ReferencesNAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary
See alsoartificial selection; quantitative traits
TranslationsSpanish: selección tándem
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-006257",
  "term": "tandem selection",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "A selection method to improve several traits. Selection is practiced on one trait for a given period of time. When the desired level of improvement is reached in one trait, it is followed by selection for a second trait, and so on until all important traits are selected.",
  "subject": "Research, Technology, Methods",
  "see_also": [
    "artificial selection",
    "quantitative traits"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "selección tándem"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/tandem-selection/"
}

Record 6,257 of 6,908 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.