Ignoring the odds, teams breed plant (5)
I believe the answer is:
embed
'plant' is the definition.
(I know that plant can be written as embed)
'ignoring the odds teams breed' is the wordplay.
'ignoring the odds' indicates alternate letters (letters in odd-numbered positions are removed).
'teams'+'breed'='teamsbreed'
The alternating letters of 'teamsbreed' are 'EMBED'.
(Other definitions for embed that I've seen before include "Become firmly fixed" , "Plant firmly" , "Put entirely inside something else" , "Enclose snugly" , "Surround" .)