Emily Bello Block 3 The New Deal In 1929 the Great Depression had begun, agricultural overproduction, concentration of wealth, buying on credit, speculation, and wall street's ability to slip under the watchful eye of the government had finally caught up to the American people. In a brief moment, Americans had gone from ballrooms to Hoovervilles, flagged with Herbert Hoover's failing laissez-faire economics approach during the Depression. Under Franklin Delano Roosevelt the American people found
The ever increasing demand for food and other basic needs has put a lot of pressure on the plant genetic resources (PGR) and diversity particularly in agricultural sector in terms of addressing the accompanied challenges associated with increasing crop productivity. The utilization of PGR in agriculture has not only brought about profound changes in the crop productivity and quality, but has also opened up newer and unforeseen potential vistas including improvement of novel traits by domestication