It's no wonder that so many of these uprooted souls chose to uproot themselves again by emigrating to Britain.
To prevent stray pollen spreading the genes, the trial plots are surrounded with 10 metres of barley and three metres of conventional wheat that will be uprooted and destroyed with the crop at the end of the experiment.
ARMED STRUGGLE AND THE SEARCH FOR STATE.By Yezid Sayigh.Oxford University Press; 1,000 pages; £70 and $99HOW can it be that the Palestinians, an uprooted and dispersed Arab people who never had a state of their own, are relatively close to getting one now?
But some 80% of the estimated 2.4m uprooted people have sought refuge elsewhere.
Unusually for a book about Mexico, it tells the story from the point of view of a Mexican-American uprooted from the country that he loves as a young boy, who grows up on the north side of the border, but whose heart remains on the southern side.
Referring to Israel's founding war of 1948 that uprooted half of Palestine's population, a former senior Israeli intelligence man says "a mini-naqba", Arabic for "catastrophe", would be unleashed.With no formal mechanism to mediate between the parties, neither side knows how to cool things down.
And if you throw the net really wide, to include people forced to move by natural disasters, the number of uprooted people reached 67m last year, the UNHCR says.
In the middle of the 20th century Robert Moses, New York's master-builder, ruthlessly uprooted thousands.
They offer a customer-friendly faith, telling the poor and uprooted that Christ can improve their lives and that He can be approached through ecstasy rather than ritual.The Pentecostals spread the word through television networks, CD releases and pastors who require only a pulpit and a Bible rather than an elaborate seminary education.
The villagers scramble to replant the uprooted trees, nursing them tenderly back into the ground.
Tree-sellers scour distant mountainsides for older trees (though when uprooted and moved to cities many do not survive)."Last year, half of the trees we sold were transplanted to Chongqing," says Sun Hezeng, a 48-year-old father of two sons, who help him in the business.
