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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 572–606.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Francesco Cassata Abstract Established in 1960 near Rome and supported by the US Atomic Energy Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Casaccia Center for Nuclear Studies played a fundamental role in transforming what became known as “mutation breeding” from an uncertain set...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 674–701.
Published: 01 November 2024
... in the developing world through the effective use of “mutation breeding” as a “complementary” crop improvement technique. However, global epistemic and organizational divides often cast a shadow on the utility of nuclear techniques for India's food sufficiency needs. The use of radiation techniques also became...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 642–673.
Published: 01 November 2024
[email protected] Copyright © 2024 the Agricultural History Society 2024 atomic energy Pakistan agriculture Green Revolution S tudies devoted to the applications of atomic energy to agriculture are relatively few and have tended to focus on mutation breeding, emphasizing its pre-1945 history...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 518–540.
Published: 01 November 2024
... would be economically viable. Occasionally the criticism was more severe, as when discussing mutation plant breeding in the Soviet Union. What we find in exploring agricultural techniques in atomic energy, in national contexts as well as at international agencies, is how routinely experts pointed out...
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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 (2018) 92 (4): 609–614.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Kim Kleinman Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America . By Helen Anne Curry . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2016 . 320 pp., hardback, $45.00 , ISBN 978-0-226-39008-6 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (1): 54–77.
Published: 01 January 2018
...; and, second, that a centuries-old breeding method can adopt twenty-first-century biotechnology to support the historic structure of purebred breeding. Shorthorn breeders attempted to hold their slipping position within the purebred beef cattle world by utilizing biotechnology to re-enforce the nineteenth...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 541–571.
Published: 01 November 2024
... screwworm eradication program in Mexico, discussed by Thomas Rath in this issue. While mutation breeding and atomic gardening are perhaps the best-known examples of atomic agriculture, the SIT is another major area where nuclear technology has been used in agriculture since the 1950s. Enthusiasm...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 368–387.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., and improved plant and animal breeds. Continued use of machines combined with a budding US chemical industry, as tractors went hand in hand with fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. The process did not happen seamlessly, however, and farmers made many individual decisions along the way as the process...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 231–236.
Published: 01 May 2022
... is not only about something that humans did to cows, but also about what cows did to humans. Human proximity to a domesticated ruminant, combined with a genetic mutation to make it possible for adults to drink milk, compelled people to take advantage of the nearby food source. Over time, well-fed genetic...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 273–310.
Published: 01 May 2023
... breeding program, and wheat became the centerpiece of the Green Revolution beginning in the 1960s. This article reveals that the environmental origins of the MAP's wheat program lay in combating a plant disease fungus commonly known as wheat rust, which harmed farmers in both northern Mexico and the US...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 505–510.
Published: 01 October 2004
... of events. Indeed, by 1918, traditional conceptions of war-making had mutated so much under the intense pressures of total war that they could now include a heightened commitment to, and increasing levels of, military involvement in the production of foodstuffs, under a variety of conditions and by diverse...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 84–107.
Published: 01 January 2020
... later. The selective breeding of foxes led to the production of a valuable mutation in fur color: the pearl platinum. The pearl platinum was reportedly first 96 Agricultural History encountered by accident on the York Fur Farm in New Brunswick in 1934. When the farmer opened a kennel, checking...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 324–361.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Margaret E. Derry Abstract In the twentieth century a conflict arose between geneticists and practical breeders over which theory of heredity should direct animal breeding strategies and methods. Two different approaches existed and competed with each other over how to develop a breeding...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (3): 1–32.
Published: 01 July 2012
... or not the Romosinuano had any European blood. But whether it was the result of crossbreeding or a genetic mutation is beside the point. The subsequent development of the new breed larger, faster growing, higher yielding, and better shaped testifies to the skills and dedication of ranchers from the Sinu´ Valley...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 417–443.
Published: 01 August 2022
... products, as well as flatbreads. Our work shows how knowing the kind of wheat—its characteristics and breeding history—is crucial to understanding the global history of Pacific Northwest wheat. Because of the efforts of WWA, agronomists like Orville A. Vogel, and wheat quality scientists such as Mark...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 379–416.
Published: 01 August 2022
... cereals because of their relative resistance to rust. 97 Since the early twentieth century, Italian wheat breeding had among its main objectives not just high yields but also rust resistance. Many of Strampelli's high-yielding hybrid cultivars had been specifically bred to allow profitable wheat...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 444–471.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017). 16. M. D. Rumbaugh, “N. E. Hansen’s Contributions to Alfalfa Breeding in North America,” South Dakota State University Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin Paper 670 (Brookings, SD...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 407–439.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., and landscapes. Currently, he explores the role of oranges in the globalization of California in the first half of the twentieth century. Saraiva s approach to citrus draws heavily on his previous research on fascist regime building and animal and plant breeding in Germany, Italy, and Portugal, the basis of his...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (2): 176–204.
Published: 01 April 2020
... d’économie politique (réunion de septembre),” Journal des économistes (1869): 459; Jean-Claude Daumas, “L’industrie lainière en France: un siècle de mutations (1870-1973),” Matériaux pour l’histoire de notre temps 47, no. 1 (1997): 14-20. 76. Orange and Amalbert, Le mérinos d’Arles , 36-38; Le...
