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Fig. 1. The universities (States) with seed science graduate programs in the USA: 1960 (Oregon State, Mississippi State, Iowa State, and Cornell; additional programs added in 1980 (California-Davis, Washington State, Colorado State, Montana State, Texas Tech, Louisiana State, Alabama A&M, Florida, Kentucky, Ohio State, Michigan State); additional programs in 1990 (Brigham Young, Virginia Tech) and the total number of faculty in all universities for each year.