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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 444–471.
Published: 01 July 2021
...John B. Seitz Abstract On the eve of the twentieth century, plant explorers from the United States such as Neils E. Hansen traveled to Russian Central Asia in search of new cold-hardy and drought-resistant alfalfa varieties. Hansen’s travels and the work of other alfalfa boosters would help create...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 253–254.
Published: 01 April 2017
... University Global Plants and People: Origin and Development of Human-Plant Science Relationships. By Christopher Cumo. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2016. 272 pp., $79.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-4987-0708-4. Christopher Cumo has written a broad and ambitious interdisciplinary study of the relationship between...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (1): 112–114.
Published: 01 January 2008
...Michael Harkin Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America . Douglas Deur and Nancy J. Turner . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 AgriculturHalistory Winter inChina and Thailand has resulted in reinstitution...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 550–551.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Douglas Deur Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America’s Most Valuable Plant . Kristin Johannsen . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 AgriculturHalistory Fall Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America's Most Valuable Plant. By Kristin JohannsenL...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (3): 384–410.
Published: 01 July 2009
... of Agrarian Capitalism: Agrarian Politics in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, and the USA, 1846-1919 (New York: Routledge, 1994); Jonathan Harwood, "Europe’s Green Revolution: The Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant-Breeding, 1890-1945," MS, in possession of author; Willi Boelcke, "Ueber...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (3): 414–415.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Margaret W. Rossiter Pioneering Women in Plant Pathology . Jean Beagle Ristaino . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 AgriculturHalistory Summer The introductioonftheCavendishvarietyinthelate1950sfinallyended thepracticeof corporateshiftinaggriculturTe.he varietyresistedPanama...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 46–73.
Published: 01 January 2010
...STÉPHANE CASTONGUAY Abstract Beginning in 1878 with the International Phylloxera Convention of Berne, international conventions have sought to relieve national agricultural industries from two specific burdens. First, by defining phytosanitary practices to be enforced by national plant protection...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 112–113.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Jonathan Harwood Hybrid: The History and Science of Plant Breeding . By Noel Kingsbury . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2009 . 512 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-226-437040-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural History Winter cooking...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (2): 251–252.
Published: 01 April 2001
...Phillip L. Frana The Formative Years of Plant Pathology in the United States . C. Lee Campbell , Paul D. Peterson and Clay S. Griffith . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews / 251 The Formative Years of Plant Pathology in the United States. Edited by C...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (1): 163–165.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Anne Effland Fruits of Eden: David Fairchild and America's Plant Hunters . By Amanda Harris . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2015 . 312 pp., $24.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8130-6061-3. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book Reviews out the book, using...
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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 (2024) 98 (2): 284–285.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Samira Peruchi Moretto [email protected] Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant . By Seth Garfield . Chapel Hill : University North Carolina Press , 2022 . 336 pp., $34.95 , paperback, ISBN 9781469671277 . Copyright © 2024...
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in Diversifying Description: Sweet Potato Science and International Agricultural Research after the Green Revolution
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 August 2023
figure 1. A subset of the crop descriptors to be used by plant collectors when obtaining samples of sweet potato varieties in the field, as set out by an international expert meeting in 1980. From IBPGR, Genetic Resources of Sweet Potato . Republished by permission of Bioversity International.
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in Diversifying Description: Sweet Potato Science and International Agricultural Research after the Green Revolution
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Published: 01 August 2023
figure 2. A subset of the crop descriptors to be used by plant breeders and other researchers when evaluating sweet potato plants, especially those associated with gene-banked samples. From IBPGR, Genetic Resources of Sweet Potato . Republished by permission of Bioversity International.
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 133–135.
Published: 01 January 2006
...Michael R. Hall Gardens of New Spain: How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America . William W. Dunmire . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews / 133 period, 1600-1868), the reforms of the Meiji era (1868-1912), village life dur? ing the Pacific War (1937...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 129–130.
Published: 01 January 2006
...James Edward Scanlon The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley . Warren R. Hofstra . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews / 129 The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenan? doah Valley. By Warren R...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (3): 388–391.
Published: 01 July 2005
...Barbara C. Fertig Gardens and Historic Plants of the Antebellum South . James R. Cothran . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 388 / Agricultural History a liminal position, he also claims a stance that is "practically a cliche" (4). Some readers might be tempted to take...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 197–199.
Published: 01 January 2019
..., central states, and export economies. Amelia Hintzen Yale University Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. By Londa Schiebinger. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. 256 pp., $24.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-5036-0291-5. Londa Schiebinger s...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (2): 277–278.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Erica Hannickel The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants . Jane S. Smith . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 Book Reviews returnys ieldsnumbersthatleave one wonderingexactlywhat"significant" means(even...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 594–595.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Barbara A. Kimmelman Remarkable Plants That Shape Our World . By William F. Bynum and Helen Bynum . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2014 . 240 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-226-20474-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Fall...
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