Intro: Genetic Diversity and Food Production

Please look up the following terms to make sure you are familiar with them:

• Composite Variety

• Grex

• Open Pollination, insect pollinated, wind pollinated

• Refuge Seed and why it is mandated by the USDA

• Off-type and other terms

• Gasp Corn

• Flint Corn vs. Flour Corn

• Separating Pollination by time, distance, or genetics

• Ancient, Modern, Heritage, Landrace, Pedigree, Variety, Cultivar, Species, Hybrid, Clone

• USDA GRIN

• Small Grains: Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rye, Rice; wheat & rye do not readily outcross - except triticale

• Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) + transgenic

• Selective Breeding

• Hybridization (inbreeding, crossing, etc.)

• Clonal Reproduction

• Landrace

• Heirloom, Heritage, "Ancient Grain"