cybridization

cybridization
 n.— «An experimental method called cybridization transfers a gene for sterility into seedy varieties, rendering them seedless more efficiently than the shotgun approach used in irradiation.» —“Seedless Fruits Make Others Needless” by David Karp The Ledger (Lakeland, Flordia) Mar. 25, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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