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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (1): 31–54.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Lyvia Diser Abstract During the 1870s Belgium followed the path of other European countries and created its first public agricultural laboratories under the direction of Arthur Petermann, a young German agricultural scientist. Petermann had been trained in the well-established European stations...
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in In Pursuit of “Man-Made Evolution”: Peaceful Atoms, Circulatory Knowledge, and Atomic Agriculture in India
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 1. Top: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru outside a Brookhaven National Laboratory facility at the World Agricultural Fair. Bottom: J. L. Brewbaker with Indian scientists at a Brookhaven National Laboratory radiation unit. National Center for Biological Sciences Archives.
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (4): 540–559.
Published: 01 October 2011
... and environmental historians of the Dust Bowl. The Historical Geographic Information Systems Laboratory at the University of Saskatchewan has now digitized these maps and built an HGIS that will allow analysis of this information for the first time in seventy-five years. © the Agricultural History Society, 2011...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 383–413.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Megan Raby Abstract From 1926 to 1974, the United Fruit Company operated the Lancetilla Experiment Station near Tela, Honduras. As a laboratory and botanical garden where one of the world's largest living collections of tropical fruits could be found, it stood in apparent contrast to the vast...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 518–540.
Published: 01 November 2024
... that these approaches were promising but ultimately inferior. Yet they were pursued anyway, boosted by the priorities of governments and government-funded international agencies. The political and military value of atomic energy sheltered individual scientists, laboratories, and entire research programs from skepticism...
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in Atomic Spaghetti”: Durum Wheat and Mutation Breeding in Italy (1950s–1970s)
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 5. Visual comparison between Cappelli and short-straw mutants released at the Casaccia Laboratory (Castelfusano and Castelporziano), 1968. Luigi Rossi private archive.
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 541–568.
Published: 01 October 2018
... Regional Research Laboratories,”
Agricultural History 64 , no. 2 (Spring 1990 ): 41 – 52 . 11.
Nathalie Jas , Au Carrefour de la chimie et de l’agriculture. Les sciences agronomiques en France et en Allemagne 1840–1914 ( Paris : Editions des archives contemporaines , 2001 ). 12...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 572–606.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Figure 5. Visual comparison between Cappelli and short-straw mutants released at the Casaccia Laboratory (Castelfusano and Castelporziano), 1968. Luigi Rossi private archive. ...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 209–229.
Published: 01 April 2016
... manufacturers. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 NOTES 1. S. C. Lind , “The Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory,” Scientific Monthly 22 ( Feb. 1926 ): 169 . 2. Many scholars have emphasized the ways that warfare spurred technological change, especially under the aegis...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 674–701.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Figure 1. Top: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru outside a Brookhaven National Laboratory facility at the World Agricultural Fair. Bottom: J. L. Brewbaker with Indian scientists at a Brookhaven National Laboratory radiation unit. National Center for Biological Sciences Archives. ...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 569–570.
Published: 01 October 2007
... scientists," chemical company officials, and civil servantsmotivated by theirdesire to "conquer nature" showed flagrant disregard for the public's health and welfare (4). The author launches the book with a brief discussion of the development of pesticides inUSDA laboratories during World War II. Spurred...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (1): 105–107.
Published: 01 January 2012
... student. At present, she is a PhD candidate in Laboratory History Studies at the University of Leuven in Belgium, and her dissertation is entitled, Laboratory vs. Farm: The Conquest of Laboratory Science over Tradition in Belgian Agriculture (see this issue for her winning article). Vernon Carstensen...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 70–93.
Published: 01 January 2016
... in agricultural production following World War II possible. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 NOTES 1. Shell Oil Company , Shell … Soldier and Civilian ( np : Shell Union Oil , 1945 ), unpaginated. 2. Shell Oil Company , Agricultural Laboratory , Better Farming Through Research...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 609–614.
Published: 01 October 2018
... by the invisible rays. Strange alterations take place in corn and other growing plants when they are bombarded by X-rays, laboratory tests have previously shown. Dr. Stadler expects improved varieties to result from this practical experiment. His portable apparatus receives electric current by a long cable (2...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (3): 297–321.
Published: 01 July 2011
... ). For a contemporary's take on this transformation (and the rise of laboratory botany generally) see, William G. Farlow , “The Change from the Old to the New Botany,” Science 37 ( Jan. 17 , 1913 ): 79 – 86 . 9. Farlow , “Change from the Old to the New Botany,” 79 ; Emanuel D. Rudolph...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (4): 265–266.
Published: 01 October 2012
..., particularly in the Black Belt of Alabama. Although at home in the solitude of the laboratory, Carver spent much of his career engaged in petty bureaucratic affairs at Tuskegee, scrapping with Booker T. Washington and the faculty about the creation of a viable agricultural department, experiment station...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 630–632.
Published: 01 October 2015
..., and laboratories that shaped the development of regulatory toxicology, chemical risk assessment, and pesticide regulation in the United States. In the early twentieth century, toxicology (the science of poisons) emerged from the cantankerous politics of food adulteration. These early political battles around pure...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (3): 373–397.
Published: 01 July 2011
... Institution , 1937 ). 8. Seim , “Butter-Margarine Controversy,” 4 ; Arthur , “Brief Informal Review,” 16 – 17 . 9. Arthur , “Brief Informal Review,” 16 ; Folder—Statistical Laboratory, Box 17, Charles E. Friley Papers, Iowa State University Archives (hereafter FP). 10...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 570–572.
Published: 01 October 2007
... unconsidered. Daniel either ignores or downplays evidence that there was a debate within theARS over pesticide use in the 1950s. E. J.Knipling, who headed the entomology division of the ARS through much of the period thisbook covers, is a case-in-point. During World War II, he led the USDA Orlando laboratory...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (3): 548–550.
Published: 01 July 2019
... chronological chapters. The first two examine efforts by American biologists in the late nineteenth century to emulate the successes of European colleagues in establishing their own tropical research laboratories. Proponents claimed that almost all of botany had focused its attention on temperate zones...
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