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Plant breeding: Quick Facts

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Carolus Clusius
French botanist
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Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
British geneticist and statistician
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Hugo de Vries
Dutch botanist and geneticist
Burbank, Luther
Luther Burbank
American plant breeder
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Edward Murray East
American scientist
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Donald Forsha Jones
American agronomist
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George Harrison Shull
American botanist
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John Lorain
American agriculturalist
Farrer, William James
William James Farrer
Australian agriculturalist
Vavilov inspecting citrus trees at Maykop, Russian S.F.S.R., in 1935
Nikolai Vavilov
Russian geneticist