Attention Quote by Sandra E. Peterson

We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle…

— Diane Ackerman

Plant breeding has been going on for millennia and it's a gradual process.

— Monty Don

Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in…

— Nina Fedoroff

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

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

— Luther Burbank

The purpose of developing a methodology for what they call genetic control over seed, is mainly to ensure that F1 hybrids are pure and…

— M. S. Swaminathan

Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.

— Margaret Atwood

A recent review of different agricultural options for the future was conducted by a panel of experts. The scientists posed the question: How are…

— Raj Patel

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and…

— Bill Gates

“All farms require a resident dreamer, someone to thumb through seed catalogs in the cold days of late January, imagining summer fields of squash…

— Forrest Pritchard

Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.

— Sam Graves

I am talking about being optimistic enough to sow some seeds in the hope that some of them will germinate and grow into flowers.

— Philippa Perry