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Suggest four important steps to produce a disease resistant plant through conventional plant breeding technology.

Steps for the producing disease resistant plants:

i. Selection of parent plant for diseases resistance sources


ii. The hybridisation of selected parents


iii. Hybrids selection and their evaluation


iv. Testing and commercial production of new varieties


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