Ensuring the recovery of future sources is a challenge for geneticists and plant breeders, as well as for historians and archivists. Here, this suggestion is illustrated by an account of the emergence, in the middle of the 20th century, of seed banks. These deposits are intended to allow the conservation of the genetic diversity of the world's crops against "genetic erosion" of crops, an unintended consequence of the global adoption of new high-yielding agricultural varieties during the Green Revolution. Plant breeders and scientists have recommended a long-term freezing and seed storage strategy that has saved genetic diversity for future users without requiring the continuous cultivation of old varieties: the seed bank could preserve the genetic material valuable and allow agricultural modernization. This account of genetic conservation of crops therefore shows how breeders and geneticists sought to create their own seed archives from which the evolutionary history of crops could be made usefully accessible for the future. This analysis suggests that conservation practices are informed by ideas about the future use of the material, which indicates that it is useful to explore archiving and historiography issues related to large biomolecular biosciences simultaneously.
2021 Conference Announcement: Journal of Genetics and DNA Research
2021 Conference Announcement: Journal of Genetics and DNA Research
Scientific Tracks Abstracts: Journal of Molecular Biomarkers & Diagnosis
Scientific Tracks Abstracts: Molecular Biomarkers & Diagnosis
Accepted Abstracts: Molecular and Genetic Medicine
Accepted Abstracts: Molecular and Genetic Medicine
Scientific Tracks Abstracts: Journal of Tissue Science and Engineering
Scientific Tracks Abstracts: Journal of Tissue Science and Engineering
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Human Genetics & Embryology
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Human Genetics & Embryology
Posters: Metabolomics:Open Access
Posters: Metabolomics:Open Access
Journal of Genetics and DNA Research received 3 citations as per Google Scholar report
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