> The resulting potato was fungi
> resistant all right.  It was also so loaded with alkaloids that it was too
> toxic to eat even after cooking.

Nothing like ingesting a bit of cyanide in with your lovely leafy vegies.

William Farrar bred rust resistant wheat in this country (Australia).  So
appreciated were these efforts that at least in my schooldays his efforts
were taught as part of the curriculum.  Regarded as somewhat of a hero,
there are a couple of memorials to him and his pic was on the two dollar
note.

I don't know if they still are, but the poultry industry was very supportive
of the fancy.  They felt that at some time they may well want to use an
heirloom breed to use in commercial breeding.

Geoff Manning

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