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Could we lose delicious foods forever?
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Why We Need Wild Genetic Varieties for Food Security?
In the eastern turkey, farmers have saved a type of wheat that generation after generation had been growing for close to eight, nine thousand years in that part of the world. The reason why it's so important is because, again, they are farming in conditions where it's quite high altitude and damp. If you put a modern wheat in that environment, fungle diseases would mean that there would be no crop. And so what they have there is this precious tic resource, again, that has forms of resistance. Take that wheat and those principles of diseased resistance, and you will find again, in rice, in seed banks, in maize, in all crops. This adaptation that our ancestors
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