INTRODUCTION

For more than 10,000 years, agriculture has been big business.1 The agricultural revolution that started in Mesopotamia led to the development of society as it exists today.2 Development of agriculture led to food storage, allowing for diversification of jobs and increased permanence of residence.3 Early farmers were able to take advantage of genetic variation to domesticate plant species and ultimately to create hybrid species with improved yield, greater nutritional value, and heightened resistance to environmental harms.4 This process of striving to produce new species with improved performance has continued into the modern day, with the additional twist that modern science ...

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