Family Trees: Generations & Propagations
Article by L. J. Grauke
Brownwood worksite of the USDA ARS Pecan Breeding & Genetics Program.
September 4, 2019
Time gets divided into generations in our families and the social context of our culture. Some generational generalizations (Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, Millennials, Gen Z) are media hype, but some patterns are appropriate to recognize to maintain what functions well in our communities. The culture of trees carries the previous generations’ fingerprints in the even-aged stands established under the opportunities provided by their times. In this article, I intend to look at the opportunities and mandates that pecan research was given in the generation of researchers now exiting the scene, at some test systems established that could survive into the future, and at the cost-benefit analysis of their maintenance and continuation.
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This work is supported by the Specialty Crop Research Initiative Coordinated Agricultural Project no. 2022-51181-38332, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
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