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Seed Collection and Plant Genetic Diversity, 1900-1979
By: Marci Baranski
| Published: Nov 01, 2013
Farmers have long relied on genetic diversity to breed new crops, but in the early 1900s scientists began to study the importance of plant genetic…
ContextGermplasm resources, PlantGermplasm resources, Plant--StorageAgrobiodiversityCrops
Seed Banking 1979-1994
By: Marci Baranski
| Published: Jan 28, 2014
In the early twentieth century, scientists and agriculturalists collected plants in greenhouses, botanical gardens, and fields. Seed collection…
ContextGermplasm resources, PlantGermplasm resources, Plant--StorageAgrobiodiversityCrops
Nikolai Ivanovic Vavilov (1887-1943)
By: Marci Baranski
| Published: Apr 15, 2014
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov proposed theories of plant genetic diversity and participated in the political debate about genetics in Soviet Russia in…
Agrobiodiversity