Breeding progress in rye, however, is rather slow, as the traditional breeding is hampered by the outcrossing nature of this crop, self-incompatibility and occurrence of inbreeding depression.
But other than the violently cropped self-portraits, where the body language is pure agony, this is the only portrait in the show.
In a rich crop of self-justifying politicians' books this autumn, Clegg's Politics: Between the Extremes is first to invite an assessment of how he did.
Instead, it seems to be aimed at the next crop of self-styled Livermores -- obsessive chart-reading traders who are still convinced that the "world's greatest stock trader" had cracked the secret code of the market and found a way to anticipate price movements before they occurred.
The report on "This American Life" describes the deep wariness and even animosity many suffering Haitians feel toward N.G.O.s, and how, even as they yearn for help, they may often wish that most of the current crop of self-appointed helpers would just leave them alone.
What makes all this of interest beyond the give-and-take of California politics is that Ms. Whitman, one of the country's most visible and successful executives, is part of a bumper crop of self-financed, superrich candidates in races across the country, from Rick Scott and Jeff Greene in Florida to Linda McMahon in Connecticut and Carly Fiorina in California.
Her mother Sue is one of the crop of self-confessed Warhammer Widows who spend all day in the cafe.
Though Dextro's anonymity stands in direct opposition to today's crop of self-image obsessed, Tumblr-based digitandanewnew media artists, he can be coaxed into communication.
The New Democrat Coalition ― the traditional intraparty rival of the CPC ― is a 68-member crop of self-styled moderates with close ties to the corporate establishment.
So when sampling the fresh crop of self-proclaimed mindfulness teachers, please do not be fooled by people discussing brain states or neurology.
Those who today are unmaking America vary in age across decades from the "boomers" to the yuppies to generation "X" to the current crop of self-absorbed strivers called millennials.
