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  1. Trifecta: This is the National Clonal Germplasm Repository at Davis. The report mentions: “a recent $50 million grant from the European Union that’s sending botanists all over the world to collect germplasm from as many “landraces” as they can…” Anyone know more on this grant?
    The clonal collection was originally further up the valley at Chico – under the responsibility of David Fairchild. His book “The World was my Garden: Travels of a Plant Explorer” (Publ. 1938) is good reading – available as an epub download from https://openlibrary.org
    The collection emphasises the importance of `plant introduction’ – as the report says: “the basis of California’s $17.2 billion fruit and nut industry” (and for other crops most of the rest of the vast US crop production and export industry).
    Why on earth has the term `plant introduction’ dropped out of use? Growing someone else’s quality varieties is a good deal more useful and cheaper than developing your own – and germplasm collecting is (or was) a good life-style choice.

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