Concepts describing the genetic material crops and livestock are built from and how it is kept, changed or lost, including agricultural biodiversity, centers of origin, crop wild relatives, domestication, genetically modified crops and heterosis. Belongs here: any concept about the origin, variety or engineering of the biological material farming depends on. Does not belong here: a concept about how farmland itself degrades, grouped under Soil and Environmental Processes.
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1. Wikipedia: Plant genetic resources
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Plant genetic resources describes the variability within plants that comes from human and natural selection over millennia.
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