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DESCRIPTION:Critical takes on industrial monoculture often note the height
 ened susceptibility of homogenized farm fields to diseases and pests. Tho
 se who develop industrial commodity crops engage in a near-continuous def
 ensive labor in which they must seek genetic sources of resistance to wil
 ts\, rusts\, viruses\, and insects to incorporate into the breeding pools
  that will be the seeds of future harvests. Since the early twentieth cen
 tury\, farmer’s varieties and crop wild relatives have been heralded as i
 mportant sources of genetic disease- and pest-resistance. They have been 
 secured through bioprospecting expeditions and placed in genebanks where 
 they can be made available to breeders in sites far removed from their or
 iginal habitats. Yet the transit of seeds and plants across lands and oce
 ans brings risks\, and none greater than that of introducing new pests an
 d diseases that will further endanger vulnerable monocultures. This talk 
 explores the history of efforts to manage the risk of disease introductio
 n that arises from the search for new sources of disease resistance throu
 gh a study of one of the world’s most important potato genebanks\, the Co
 mmonwealth Potato Collection. It emphasizes the complex relationship betw
 een managing monocultures and maintaining crop diversity and reveals that
  crop diversity has been understood as a source of both security and risk
  in industrial agriculture.\n\nSpeaker:\nHelen Curry\, PhD\n\nAdmission:\
 nFree\n\nDetails URL:\nhttps://medicine.yale.edu/event/frederic-l-holmes-
 lecture/\n
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GEO:41.303230;-72.933870
LOCATION:Sterling Hall of Medicine\, L-Wing\, Medical Historical Library\,
  333 Cedar Street\, New Haven\, CT\, United States
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STATUS:Confirmed
SUMMARY: Roots of Risk: Managing Diversity and Disease in a Potato Genebank
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