Important Quote by M. S. Swaminathan

In any case, if I grow hybrid maize or hybrid pearl mallet or any hybrid, I have to sow fresh seed every year. I…

— M. S. Swaminathan

“process. It’s as beneficial, on its own level, as the hybridization of different strains of maize or chickens.”

— Aldous Huxley

Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield…

— Barbara Hepworth

When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids…

— Gregor Mendel

Weeds are out most successful cultivated crop.

— Richard Mabey

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance…

— Michael Pollan

The thing that has not had enough attention is really thinking about how to use modern breeding techniques to really look at the germplasm…

— Sandra E. Peterson

The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in…

— David F. Houston

We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried.…

— Nina Fedoroff

Many people sow rice in their fields and expect to harvest maize.

— Vikrant Parsai

“ample supply of water. In the Philippines, rice planting is a celebration. The soil is first prepared by the farmer and his carabao (KAH-RAH-BOW),…

— N.T. Alcuaz

At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in…

— Cary Fowler