Hunt for Diversity

Plants: From Roots to Riches by BBC

Aug 7, 201414:08Society & Culture

Agriculture tends to favour the best food varieties but this is often a trade off with beneficial traits such as resistance to disease or tolerance to drought. During the 1920s the Russian botanist Nikolai Vavilov, havin...

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