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in Atomic Spaghetti”: Durum Wheat and Mutation Breeding in Italy (1950s–1970s)
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Published: 01 November 2024
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in Atomic Spaghetti”: Durum Wheat and Mutation Breeding in Italy (1950s–1970s)
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 2. Cobalt 60 source for the gamma field before its installation, 1959. Luigi Rossi private archive.
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in Atomic Spaghetti”: Durum Wheat and Mutation Breeding in Italy (1950s–1970s)
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Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 3. Reproduction of the gamma field at the EUR, during the Sixth International Electronics and Nuclear Congress, 1959. Luigi Rossi private archive.
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in Atomic Spaghetti”: Durum Wheat and Mutation Breeding in Italy (1950s–1970s)
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 4. Interactive miniature model of the gamma field at the CNRN's pavilion at the Trade Fair of Milan in 1959. Mannino Patané, “Possibilità presenti e future,” 157.
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 572–606.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Figure 1. Aerial view of the gamma field, 1960. Luigi Rossi private archive. ...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 609–614.
Published: 01 October 2018
... successes for the techniques Curry chronicles were with the red grapefruits Star Ruby and Rio Red, and the rice Calrose 76, which was valued for being short statured (211). But other attempts now seem dangerously impractical. Brookhaven National Laboratory s gamma field experiment in the 1950s, for example...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 642–673.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of the Radiological Division, which was transferred from Lahore, Tandojam began activities in plant breeding and physiology, as well as entomology, using a three-hundred-curie cobalt source, a controlled greenhouse, and a small “gamma field.” Activities in genetics and soil science followed suit, and in due time...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 541–571.
Published: 01 November 2024
... the Japanese and US governments. 74 However, few Japanese had noted that by the time Japan's first commercial nuclear power plant began operating in 1966 in Tokai village after a decade of intense debates, irradiation breeding had been in progress for years at an enormous gamma field only ten miles away...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 518–540.
Published: 01 November 2024
... . Much must depend on one's finances and facilities, however, and I think most certainly if one was going to engage in fundamental studies on mutations then a gamma field is a very useful facility to have . 27 Taken out of context, Bell's words told the IAEA what it needed to hear. Mutation...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 674–701.
Published: 01 November 2024
...” or “gamma field” in New Delhi similar to those in the United States, Sweden, and Japan. 46 The opening ceremony of the atomic garden grabbed headlines in leading news dailies. The popular English-language newspaper The Indian Express even carried a cartoon of a family conversation in which a father...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 102–138.
Published: 01 January 2019
... pushed for a new report, which is when Gesell got involved. Over time, he and other radiological scientists argued that gamma radiation from slag was simply not a major health threat in southeast Idaho.2 This was good news for Monsanto. After all, this firm was responsible for creating the mountain...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 368–387.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of the usefulness of atomic energy to agriculture. Even though radiation from space, the so-called cosmic rays, produce natural mutations, these do not occur very often, and breeders frequently wish they could speed up these mutations radioactivity could help speed up this process. The Gamma Field, located...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 607–641.
Published: 01 November 2024
... was to use atomic energy to eradicate a livestock pest known as the screwworm fly. Factory workers bred millions of these flies, fed them on vast quantities of blood and liquified meat, sterilized them using gamma rays, trucked the flies to airstrips, and loaded them on planes in lightweight cardboard boxes...
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