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The Origin, Variation, Immunity and Breeding of Cultivated Plants

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  • Vavilov inspecting citrus trees at Maykop, Russian S.F.S.R., in 1935
    In Nikolai Vavilov

    …conclusions were summarized in The Origin, Variation, Immunity and Breeding of Cultivated Plants (Eng. trans. by K.S. Chester, 1951). In 1920 he expanded the theory, stating that the region of greatest diversity of a species of plant represents its centre of origin. He eventually proposed 13 world centres of plant…

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