GENETIC SELECTION. “Rather than growing a single cultivar solely for nutrition, insect farmers appear to cultivate, and possibly “artificially select” for, integrated crop-microbe consortia. Indeed, crop domestication in the context of coevolving and codomesticated microbial consortia may explain the 50-million year old agricultural success of insect farmers.”
http://www.jstor.org/stable/30033817
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022