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Mutation breeding in soybean for early maturity and high productivity in soybean can be applied to obtain some new varieties.
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Xin Zhang, Shiu Yin Yuen 
01 May 2015
41 Citations
The directional mutation operator can be applied into any DE mutation strategy.
Mutation breeding can be enhanced by genetic selection for novel alleles.
The main findings of our analysis are (1) that traditional method-level mutation operators are not precise enough for GUI-level mutation; (2) the defined GUI-based mutation operators provide comprehensive support for GUI-level mutation; and (3) GUI-based mutation operators can be automated but are challenged by the dependencies between GUI widgets.
The search for mutation is also useful for the identification of the family members who do not carry the mutation and can avoid unnecessary biochemical and instrumental evaluations.
Proceedings ArticleDOI
13 Apr 2015
17 Citations
Considering the availability of a mutation testing tool with our suggested features, we argue that mutation testing can be used in practice.
Proceedings ArticleDOI
Chengnian Sun, Vu Le, Zhendong Su 
19 Oct 2016
103 Citations
This paper presents a novel EMI technique that allows mutation in the entire program (i. e., both live and dead regions).
JDAMA can be used to support mutation testing for Java database applications.

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