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The word landrace entered non-academic English in the early 1930s, by way of the Danish Landrace pig, a particular breed of lop-eared swine. [14] Many other languages do not use separate terms, like landrace and breed, but instead rely on extended description to convey such distinctions. Spanish is one such language.
The Watkins Landrace Wheat Collection is a unique resource due to the historical nature of being collected in the 1930’s before widespread globalisation of trade, and before intensive selective breeding in wheat to develop high-yielding elite varieties, which resulted in a significant loss of genetic diversity, including resilience traits. [5]
Melaku Worede (Amharic: መላኩ ወረደ; 1936 – 31 July 2023) was an Ethiopian geneticist and agronomist renowned for building one of the finest seed conservation centres in the world, employing science to benefit poor farmers, and saving Africa's seeds from oblivion.
Biology portal; A landrace (sometimes "landrace breed) is a local variety of a domesticated animal or plant species which has developed largely by natural processes from wild species, by adaptation to the natural and cultural environment in which it lives, as distinct from a standardized breed.
The American Landrace is a long, lean, white pig with 16 or 17 ribs. The head is long and narrow, the ears are large and heavy and hang forward close to the snout. The back is only slightly arched or is nearly flat. The side is even and well-fleshed and the ham is plump but not over-fat.
New Mexico landrace and pueblo chile with a high red-to-green ratio, grown near Jemez Pueblo. About a teaspoon of seeds are planted in a single hole and mixed with manure. They mature early compared to other landrace varieties. [27] New Mexican Joe E. Parker Thicker walled '6-4', with a heat variance based on growing conditions; 149 days to ...
Red Fife hard red spring wheat seeds. Red Fife (Triticum aestivum) wheat is a Canadian landrace descendant of wheat from Galicia, Eastern Europe, its old local Galician name being "Halychanka". [1] It is a hard, bread wheat with straws 0.9 to 1.5 metres tall. [2]
The medjool is a distinct landrace, described as producing "large soft fruit, with orange-yellowish flesh, and a mildly rich and pleasing flavor". [9] Being large, soft, and with a "caramel, honey" flavor, the variety has been called "the king of dates".