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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
Johann Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)
By: Amanda Andrei
| Published: Jul 27, 2013
Johann Gregor Mendel studied plants and their patterns of inheritance in Austria during the nineteenth century. Mendel experimented with the pea…
GeneticsMendel's lawPeasBotany, ExperimentalBotany
"Experiments in Plant Hybridization" (1866), by Johann Gregor Mendel
By: Amanda Andrei
| Published: Sep 04, 2013
During the mid-nineteenth century, Johann Gregor Mendel experimented with pea plants to develop a theory of inheritance. In 1843, while a monk in the…
GeneticsPeasLegumesPhenotypePlant breeding
Golden Rice
By: Marci Baranski
| Published: Sep 17, 2013
Golden Rice was engineered from normal rice by Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer in the 1990s to help improve human health. Golden Rice has an engineered…
TechnologyRiceBiotechnologyGenesMolecular Biology