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SUMMARY:Endangered Crops: Conservation Genetics and Agricultural Crisis i
 n the United States\, 1950-1975
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DESCRIPTION:This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series February-Ma
 y 2014.\n\nThey will be held fortnightly on Tuesdays at 4pm.\nAll are we
 lcome and please feel free pass this information on to interested collea
 gues.\nIf you have any questions about the programme don’t hesitate to g
 et in touch.\nWe look forward to seeing you.\n\n\nThis talk will address
  the intertwined history of two activities that are often seen to be at 
 odds with one another: globalized industrial agriculture and biodiversit
 y conservation. In particular\, it will consider the history of efforts 
 made to preserve genetic diversity in maize (corn) types and to save its
  wild relatives from extinction. In the late 1930s and 1940s\, the rapid
  spread of improved agricultural corn varieties\, especially hybrids\, s
 parked concerns about the loss of many thousands of "traditional" or "in
 digenous" types of maize across the Americas. As breeders well knew\, th
 ese long-cultivated types might be useful to plant breeders in need of g
 enes for disease resistance or other desirable traits. Such worries even
 tually spurred a massive multi-year collection and preservation program 
 that stretched from Chile to Canada in the late-1950s. The ideas and col
 lections produced through this program\, and others like it\, proved imp
 ortant both to the continued growth of global industrial agriculture and
  to the development of the field of conservation biology.\n\n\n\nDr Niki
  Vermeulen\n44 (0)161 275 0561\nniki.vermeulen@manchester.ac.uk \n\nDr W
 illiam R. Macauley\n+44 (0)161 275 5910\nray.macauley@manchester.ac.uk \
 n  \nwww.manchester.ac.uk/chstm
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LOCATION:2.217\, University Place\, Manchester
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