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From WILL - Afternoon Magazine - May 27, 2009

The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

With Jane S. Smith, Ph.D. (Scholar, Writer, and Adjunct Professor, Northwestern University)

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Categories: Agriculture, Business, Gardening and Horticulture, Science
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