America's most prolific plant breeder, working from a Santa Rosa garden rather than a laboratory. Burbank introduced more than 800 varieties, including the Burbank potato whose russet sport became the backbone of the American potato industry, the Shasta daisy and the plumcot. He bred by eye, intuition and enormous scale, keeping records so thin that geneticists despaired of him even as they used his plants.
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Defining ContributionMore than 800 plant varieties, including the Burbank potato 1 Connections
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Pomology, Disciplines Burbank's breeding work included numerous fruit cultivars, plums prominent among them
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Burbank primarily worked with fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables.
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Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849, April 11, 1926) was an American botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in agricultural science who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career.
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