Seeds of forage plants collected by prof. dr. Amaat Dumon
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Title
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Seeds of forage plants collected by prof. dr. Amaat Dumon
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Description
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Serradella, alfalfa and sand vetches are just a few examples of forage crops that have left their mark in the archives of Amaat Dumon, professor of agricultural sciences. As head of the Breeding Station of the Belgian Farmers' Union, of the university Laboratory for Applied Genetics and of the Flemish department of the General Inspection Service for Seeds and Seeds, Dumon was an expert in the extraction, propagation and breeding of seeds. His remarkable didactic collection includes dozens of test tubes, sachets and aspirin tubes filled with colorful seeds.
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Creator
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Amaat Dumon
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Place
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University Archives, Louvain
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Rights Holder
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KU Leuven
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Subject
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bioscience engineering
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agricultural sciences
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Temporal Coverage
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Interwar period
