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Genetics of Disaster¹

ABSTRACT

Erosion of some of the most vital resources for human survival goes on with no notice from the public and very little attention from the scientific community, which should be better informed. The germ plasm base required for improvement of the basic food crops that feed the world is being rapidly destroyed. This destruction of genetic resources is caused primarily by the very success of modern plant breeding programs.

Key Words: crop evolution • plant introduction • plant breeding

¹ Paper presented Aug. 18, 1971, in New York City at the annual meeting of the ASA as part of the symposium" Breeding and Management for Stable Resistance to Plant Diseases."

² Professor of Plant Genetics, Crop Evolution Lab., Dep. of Agronomy, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801.

Received for publication August 31, 1971.

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