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Less than a hundred heirloom varieties are known from before 1800. This owes partially to losses to attrition and genetic drift and partially to the great increase in commercial and amateur plant breeding since 1800.
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Insight on plant breeding: Vilmorin created a new agricultural cultivar of carrots from wild stock within 4 generations. Later determined this was only possible if wild source was developed in another place. That is, seaside wild carrots can be bred inland, but inland wild carrots can't.
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