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Seeds of discord

Nature volume 434, pages 957–958 (2005)Cite this article

A useful, though partial, survey of how we breed the plants we eat.

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  1. the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, 14853, New York, USA

    Margaret E. Smith

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More on food and genes Genes on the Menu: Facts for Knowledge-Based Decisions by Paul Pechan & Gert E. de Vries Springer, £23, $39.95, €29.95

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