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Little attempt was made to improve the varieties of cereal crops until the early years of the 19th century. The crops grown at this time consisted of a wide range of ‘land races’, each of which had evolved in the area where it was grown, mainly through natural selection, assisted from time to time by selection by farmers of the better ears from their crops as a source of seed for future years.
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Lupton, F.G.H. (1987). History of wheat breeding. In: Lupton, F.G.H. (eds) Wheat Breeding. Wheat Breeding. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3131-2_3
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