http://agro.biodiver.se/2007/10/reinventing-the-wheel/ Crops, animals, wild relatives ... Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:45:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://agro.biodiver.se/2007/10/reinventing-the-wheel/comment-page-1/#comment-258300 Pussy Galore at Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:06:18 +0000 http://agro.biodiver.se/2007/10/reinventing-the-wheel/#comment-258300 [...] [↩]Don’t I remember something similar for wheat? Must look it up. Later: ok, it was barley. [...] [...] [↩]Don’t I remember something similar for wheat? Must look it up. Later: ok, it was barley. [...]

]]> http://agro.biodiver.se/2007/10/reinventing-the-wheel/comment-page-1/#comment-105984 Don Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:53:45 +0000 http://agro.biodiver.se/2007/10/reinventing-the-wheel/#comment-105984 Why not both? Both transmission of knowledge (seeds and how to grow them) and subsequent building upon the new technology (irrigation, ,plants,seeds grown from the seeds) and finding other lineages to cultivate once the idea has been acquired by the culture. One wonders about hybridization also, between local grasses and the seeds. Why not both? Both transmission of knowledge (seeds and how to grow them) and subsequent building upon the new technology (irrigation, ,plants,seeds grown from the seeds) and finding other lineages to cultivate once the idea has been acquired by the culture. One wonders about hybridization also, between local grasses and the seeds.

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