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Kevin M. Folta is a professor and chairman of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida. From 2007 to 2010 he helped lead the project to sequence the strawberry genome, and continues to research photomorphogenesis in plants and compounds responsible for flavor in strawberries.
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The Garden of Invention
Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants
Jane S. Smith - Feb 23, 2010 (first published in 2009)
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The wide-ranging and delightful history of celebrated plant breeder Luther Burbank and the business of farm and garden in early twentieth- century America At no other time in history has there been more curiosity or concern about the food we eat-and genetically modified foods, in particular, have become both pervasive and suspect. A century ago, ho...
Kevin Folta
Jan 25, 2020
@tmzinnen @NonGMOProject I've never been there, but I loved the book "Garden of Invention". Burbank was an amazing human.     – source
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