The past, present and future of crop gen
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Nina V. Fedoroff
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Article
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2010
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Elsevier
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English
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The introduction of science and technology into agriculture over the past two centuries has markedly increased agricultural productivity and decreased its labor-intensiveness. Chemical fertilization, mechanization, plant breeding and molecular genetic modification (GM) have contributed to unparallel