Genetic Vulnerability of Major Crops

National Research Council. (1972). Genetic Vulnerability of Major Crops.

Type

Report

Intellectual base

Grey literature

Year

1972

Link

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27600/genetic-vulnerability-of-major-crops

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Primes

• Dependency Distribution Concentration
  • In agriculture, monoculture and single-cultivar reliance — the Cavendish banana, the 1840s potato — concentrate the crop's survival on one genome.

    This sourceDocuments how genetic uniformity (single-cultivar monoculture) concentrated crop survival on a narrow genome, with the 1970 U.S. southern corn-leaf-blight epidemic as the precipitating case.

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