Horticulture & Gardening How does selective breeding help in developing new ornamental plant varieties? February 9, 2026 by Riding Selective breeding plays a crucial role in developing new ornamental plant varieties by allowing breeders to enhance specific traits such as color, size, and disease resistance. This process involves choosing parent plants with desirable characteristics and breeding them over several generations to produce offspring that exhibit these traits more prominently. What is Selective Breeding in […] Read more »