Erna Bennett (1925 to 2012) was a plant geneticist and one of the early pioneers of genetic conservation. She was among the first researchers to raise the issue of biodiversity loss before the United Nations.
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Defining ContributionPlant geneticist who coined the term genetic resources and was an early pioneer of crop genetic conservation, raising the issue of biodiversity loss at the United Nations. 1 Sources
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Erna Bennett (1925-2012) was a plant geneticist and one of the early pioneers of genetic conservation (biodiversity conservation).
Work on plant genetic diversity section, second paragraph
In it, she coined the term "genetic resources" to express the idea that genes themselves are a resource - one that has been disappearing rapidly, as diverse traditional peasant seeds have been replaced by uniform modern, elite seeds.
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