Maintaining healthy and well grown plants are a big challenge in today's world. The fast growing amounts of pollution, commercialisation is all making it impossible for many tree varieties to survive. The regular crops that used to grow and flourish are finding it difficult to survive. The quality of crops is dying and the quantity as well. But the solution has to be achieved as the food is one of the basic necessities of all living creatures; humans and animals alike.

While the live stock is depleting the constant increase in the population has increased the demand of food supplies. This results in the increase of the prices of the products. To fight all this, the horticulturists have come up with various solutions and techniques.

They use methods of plant breeding to grow new varieties of plants that can survive the altered climatic conditions and soil conditions. One might think how would this help? But the breeding procedure includes combining of two species of plants with different and desired characteristics. When they are crossed together, the result product would have few characteristics from both the specimens. If the desired the criteria gets matched then the experiment is a success and a plant variety is developed. If this is not success others are crossed to start the same procedure.

This technique can be used to get various benefits from a plant. Some shrub might not have a desired lifespan; this type of crossing with a breed that has a longer life can increase the life span of the original variety as well. Gardens might look for garden advice for flowers with unique smell and colours; this can be achieved by the crossing methods. Combining two species that yield two varieties of flowers can lead to development of a new species. Similarly some plant breeder would try to get fruits that are sweeter in taste. Did you know that the seedless varieties of grapes and other fruits are a result of such advanced technology!

There have been plants that are developed to survive with less quantity of water, as they have been crossed with such varieties. It proves to be a boon for those who face water scarcity.

Some simple experiments can lead to the development of yield that is richer in quality, has better survival quality and has improvement taste and smell. The work of a breeder does not end here; they use this method to even protect the plants from bugs and other creepers. In short it can be said that this is a technology to improve the survival of the shrubs and its protection.

If you thought that this procedure can only be induced, then that is not the case. It happens naturally as well during the pollination of the seeds. We all have read in our school times that the wind carries the seeds and plants them into other flowers and this also brings into existence a newer variety of plant.

Be it natural or man induced, in many places and situations this technique has helped the growers, gardeners and farmers to a large extent to solve their issues of dying crops.