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Milestones
 
2002   FIS and ASSINSEL merge to form ISF, the International Seed Federation Source
       
1938   Establishment of ASSINSEL, Association Internationale des Sélectionneurs pour la Protection de Obentions Végétales
(International Association of Plant Breeders for the Protection of Plant Varieties)
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1930 USA Ferry-Morse Seed Co. founded Source
1929   Adoption of the first ever set of business rules for international trade of herbage seed Source
1926 USA Hi-Bred Corn Company founded
by Henry A. Wallace to develop and market hybrid seed corn
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1924   84 seedsmen convene in London, United Kingdom for the first international seed trade congress
On the agenda, a common set of rules for the international trade in seed

Establishment of the FIS, Fédération Internationale du Commerce des Semences (International Seed Trade Federation)

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1917 Russia Establishement in St. Petersburg, Russia of the Department of Applied Botany and Plant Breeding
Now called: The N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry
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1865 Austria "Versuche über Pflanzen-Hybriden"
(Experiments in Plant Hybridization)
by Gregor Mendel
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1856 France "Notes sur la création d'une nouvelle race de betterave et considerations sur l'hérédité des plantes"
(Note on the Creation of a New Race of Beetroot and Considerations on Heredity in Plants)
by Louis de Vilmorin (1816-1860). Paper establishes the theoretical groundwork for the modern seed-breeding industry.
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1775 France Creation of Vilmorin-Andrieux
after the marriage of Philippe-Victoire de Vilmorin to Adélaïde, daughter of Pierre d'Andrieux, botanist to King Louis XV, and Claude Geoffroy, Maîtresse Grainière, owner of a seed & plants shop on Quai de la Mégisserie in Paris.
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1440 France Creation of La Maison Loras
"Dès l'an mil quatre cens quarante existait à Lyon un négoce de graines..."
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