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What is a cultigen?

What is a cultigen? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (botany) A plant that has been deliberately altered or selected by humans, that is it has resulted from artificial rather than natural selection.
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Radish can now be found as a cultigen throughout the world in many different forms, from small leafy annuals to biennials with large fleshy roots.
Reinterpreting its symbolic and mythological value, Llosa links the iconography of the stone stelae to corn, the principal cultigen of formative American cultures.
The international code of botanical nomenclature, the international code of nomenclature for cultivated plants, and the cultigen.

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