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I do bristle (back of neck? I guess) at the idea that 'It was a Russian botanist and agriculturist, Michurin (1855 — 1935), who first cross-bred species of fruit trees successfully' as humans have been at plant breeding for much longer. One specific would be to look at the selective breeding that became the grains as we know them, still in great variety, mostly by human endeavor, and of course the breeding livestock. The variety of types of corn derives from human crossbreeding. So, maybe the first record Wikipedia lists is ....possibly....kind of.....ignoring millenia.

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