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I appreciate your request, but the context provided appears to be incomplete or formatting code rather than substantive information about cultivars. Without actual content to base the overview on, I cannot write an accurate response that follows your instruction to base it "ONLY on this context" and not invent facts. Could you provide the actual context or source material about cultivars that you'd like me to use?
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20 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Cultigens
- Formal definition
- Different kinds
- Clones
- Seed-produced
- Genetically modified
- Cultivar names
- Presenting in text
- Group names
- Presenting in text
- Legal protection of cultivars and their names
- Controversial use of legal protection for cultivars
- Trade designations and selling names
- International Cultivar Registration Authorities
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
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A cultivar is a kind of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and which retains those traits when propagated. Methods used to propagate cultivars include division, root and stem cuttings, offsets, grafting, tissue culture, or carefully controlled seed production. Most cultivars arise from deliberate human manipulation, but some originate from wild plants that have distinctive characteristics. Cultivar names are chosen according to rules of the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP), and not all cultivated plants qualify as cultivars. Horticulturists generally believe the word cultivar was coined as a term meaning "cultivated variety".