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Crop improvement:

The engineering of plants for the benefit of humanity, is as old as agriculture itself.

Two techniques have been used to improve crops, according to Lawrence Bogorad, a plant molecular biologist at Harvard University. The first is selection, which draws on the genetic variation inherent in plants. The earliest farmers selected plants having advantageous traits, such as those that bore the largest fruit or were the easiest to harvest. Perhaps through some rudimentary awareness that traits were passed from one generation to the next, the choicest plants and seeds were used to establish the next year's crop. Natural selection, which determines the survival of species, was now augmented by artificial selection. By selecting and isolating choice plants for cultivation, the early farmers were in essence influencing which plants would cross-pollinate. Through selection and isolation, they were narrowing, yet controlling, the available gene pool for each crop.

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