Jim Fang

Hainan Institute of Tropical Agricultural Resources, Sanya, 572025
Author    Correspondence author
Molecular Plant Breeding, 2022, Vol. 13, No. 25   doi: 10.5376/mpb.2022.13.0025
Received: 31 Aug., 2022    Accepted: 07 Sep., 2022    Published: 14 Sep., 2022

This article was first published in Molecular Plant Breeding in Chinese, and here was authorized to translate and publish the paper in English under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Fang J., 2022, Brief history of plant breeding (I): from In-situ care to Ex-situ planting, Molecular Plant Breeding, 13(25): 1-5 (doi: 10.5376/mpb.2022.13.0025)

How human beings began to consciously plant breeding may need to find the answer from the evolution of human beings. Primitive humans experienced the evolution process from migration (nomadic) to settlement, from gathering to planting, and from hunting to raising livestock. The development of early plant breeding includes two stages of in-situ care and ex situ planting, which is caused by food demand. This study expounds the Breeding Ideas of early human beings from in-situ care to ex situ planting, and expounds and restores the possible facts of early plant breeding through some examples of wild resources utilization that still exist so far.

Brief history of plant breeding; In-situ care; Ex-situ planting