Regional species in the Carpathian basin from the 18th century to 1950

Though the domestication of certain animal and plant species and the beginning of farming activity brought about a higher level of human food-production the prehistoric methods of gleaning and traditional populas collecting has long survived. The latter method could widen the scope of arable plants as well as increase the number of regional species available. Scientific interest has only turned towards the origins of cultivated plants in the 19th century. It was N.I. Vavilov who first called the attention of modern agriculture to the importance of inheritable changes of local plants that has been accumulated by traditional from of agricultural activity. The expansion of agricultur and cultural environment resulted in the withdrawal of natural environment.