Seed Selection
Deliberate saving and replanting of desirable seeds, slowly improving crop yield, resilience, taste, and storage qualities.
Core metadata
- ID: seed_selection
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -8000 (millennium)
- Region: Global / multiple regions
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: established
Prerequisites
Dependents
- Crop Landrace Selection (crop_landrace_selection)
- Hybrid Seed Production (hybrid_seed_production)
- Orchard Grafting (orchard_grafting)
Fields
Field lanes
- Agriculture & Food Systems: Crop Science
Node sources
- Solving Global Climate and Nutrition Challenges Depends on Accelerated Crop Breeding (CGIAR, 2022, official_agency) • Supports: node, maturity
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 3
- Average edge confidence: 70%
- Prerequisite sources: 3
- expert_inference: 3
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture (agriculture) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Agriculture provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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| Plant Domestication (plant_domestication) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Plant Domestication provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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| Record Keeping (record_keeping) | historical_predecessor | 75% | expert_inference | Record Keeping is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency. |
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