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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 572–606.
Published: 01 November 2024
... mutation breeding program of durum wheat, typically used for pasta making. Drawing from a variety of archival sources, this article shows how both programs were instrumental in legitimizing and bolstering the use of the “peaceful atom” in agriculture on a national and global scale. francesco.cassata...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 513–517.
Published: 01 November 2024
... article is dedicated to the establishment of the Casaccia Center for Nuclear Studies near Rome and the broad mutation breeding program implemented in the 1960s and 1970s for durum wheat, typically used for making pasta. The essays that follow can only speak to some of the themes, approaches...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 379–416.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., and adequate rainfall. And yet, apart from some scattered fields of durum wheat landraces in the central and northern highlands, it was not long before the Italians realized that the plant was little more than a minor element within Ethiopian farmers' cropping systems and diets. 23 Why did indigenous...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 273–310.
Published: 01 May 2023
... doubled to 70 percent. 120 In 1950, as Stakman put it, 15B “suddenly and without warning extended its geographical range over most of North America, increased abruptly and alarmingly in prevalence, attacked previously resistant bread wheats and durums, and proved to be complex in composition...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (4): 576–608.
Published: 01 October 2021
... 1970 (Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 1976). 13. Jorge Artee Elías Calles, interview by author, Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Sept. 2016, copy held by author; Karim Ammar (principal scientist and head of durum wheat and triticale breeding for CIMMYT), interview by author...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 382–384.
Published: 01 April 2021
... varieties of modern wheat, from spelt to durum and club (66). In telling this story, Zabinski focuses on wheat s spread from the Middle East to Europe and then to North America. Wheat s spread east through Persia, India, and China is told with much less detail, and nonwestern stories appear...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 29–50.
Published: 01 January 2009
... was not shut out of the Chinese market. Unfortunately, theCanadian price per bushel was nearly 30 percent higher than the price charged for lower grade Australian wheat. Reluctant to cut the higher prices charged for premium Canadian hard durum wheat lest this dis rupt itsprice structure inEurope, theWheat...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 674–701.
Published: 01 November 2024
... nevertheless defended the use of mutation techniques to increase the frequency of high-protein or high-lysine cultivars, claiming that such mutations are “unlikely to affect seedling growth, development, [or] yield.” To support his claim, Luse again cited several cases of durum wheat and barley from around...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (3): 314–367.
Published: 01 July 2013
... and commercial plant breeders and nurseries for study and development. Of the crops introduced through these programs, many have become well established in American farming, including durum wheat, sorghum, soybeans, and navel oranges.71 At about the same time that USDA leaders were professionalizing the plant...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (1): 2–253.
Published: 01 January 2003
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