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Kevin M Folta
Professor
| Crop Domestication- From Wild Weeds to Modern Varieties | |
| Audience: | Adults |
| Description: | Where did your food come from, not just from the farm, but also from time? Our modern crops have been highly influenced by humans. Directed and incidental selection, eventually coupled to breeding, have improved wild plant products with marginal utility into the pelthora of varieties we enjoy today. This presentation takes us introduction of basic plant forms and then shows how humans have intervened in their improvement. What a long way we have come! |
| Subject Areas: |
Agriculture Biotechnology Life Sciences Plant Sciences |
| Keywords: |
Crop domestication genetics Plant breeding plant varieties selection |
| Duration: | 1 hour or less |
| Fee: | Expenses Only |
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