Sigh-Fi

This is still how you get new strain of crops. Gamma radiation or chemical mutagens to create a bunch of mutations randomly and then selected based on which of the resulting plants you like. China even sends seeds to space to be irradiated by cosmic radiation, but I don't really see how it could be better.

The funny part is that since we did it for decades, nobody cares that you have virtually no control over what you do and that you introduce many unknown mutations with no knowledge of what they do. But if you try to introduce a specific, well-targeted mutations with modern tools, some people just go crazy.