cultivars

The problem is finding the cultivars and doing the whole experimental process with specific plants and documenting it...

Also affected are the important plantain cultivars that feed some 400 million people, as well as numerous cooking and dessert cultivars.

The answer is that you preserve several cultivars of the species, and intermingle them.

That means industrialized farming and cultivars that support industrial methods.

Moreover, bred cultivars requiring such treatments don't compete where they're not available (similarly for fertilized crops, above).

The apple guys (the fruit not the tech) have been able to market a variety of cultivars quite successfully.

Having a robust selection of lower-input/higher-output cultivars would help shield us from the failure of single crops.

The French wine industry in the 19th century grew many different cultivars of grapes.

It's only through grafting of the very occasional tree with edible fruit that we get new edible cultivars.

In the end, they had to switch to American rootstocks that came not just from different cultivars, but from different species of grapes.

When the phylloxera plague struck, the French were already growing dozens of different cultivars, in a variety of environments, from Champagne to Provence.

His cultivars are now credited with saving more than a billion lives.

Ironically, many "organic" companies still sell cultivars that have been mutated using these processes.

> "new, man-made chemical compounds that has never existed before" GMO cultivars usually do not contain new, man-made chemical compounds.

I perceive certain cultivars as being less "natural" than harvested wild varieties.

Marijuana cultivars vary tremendously, but not in a way that's particularly amenable to "here try a bite and see" like when you see strange fruits at a farmer's market.