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re: "These fertile motherlands of our food crops are vitally important because our food production depends on "hybridization." To restore vigor and productivity to our crops, we must from time to time make new hybrids by cross-breeding our domesticated plants with the still-wild genes of their relatives.'

This is somewhat related - did you ever wonder why you never see a "wild cow" in a zoo? That is because wild cows are EXTINCT! The last wild cow is believed to have died in what is now Poland in the 1600's.

I think that is a tragedy - there will be no hybridizations with the wild animal anymore!

I am a firm believer that genetic diversity is important for the generations to come.

Hybridization and gene splicing may be only the beginning,,,