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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 702–707.
Published: 01 November 2024
... on producing a marketable surplus through commercialization. Indeed, some argue that even the motive of policy change was not to increase production but to induce a commercialization of agriculture. 13 While much beyond Baranski's excellent book remains to be written about plant breeding, any new seed...
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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 (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 (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 (2024) 98 (4): 572–606.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of technologies into a robust area of research and development at both the national and international levels. At the time, there was a struggle for authority over plant breeding between the advocates of using nuclear energy and those advocating more cost-effective methods such as pedigree selection...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 448–477.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Leo Chu Abstract This article studies the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center (AVRDC) in Taiwan. It begins with the Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction (JCRR), a US-funded agency championing plant breeding and land reform. Capitalizing on Japanese colonial legacy...
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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 (2009) 83 (3): 352–383.
Published: 01 July 2009
...KENNETH SYLVESTER; GEOFF CUNFER Abstract The Green Revolution of the 1960s brought about a dramatic rise in global crop yields. But, as most observers acknowledge, this has come at a considerable cost to biodiversity. Plant breeding, synthetic fertilizers, and mechanization steadily narrowed...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (1): 121–145.
Published: 01 February 2023
... and the Wye College hop breeding program at a historical moment when the scientific approach to plant breeding has changed. First, because of the rise of plant patenting across the world, much of this work—whether hops or other agricultural crops—has moved from the public to private sphere. 4 More...
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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 (2023) 97 (4): 622–627.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the nineteenth century. This background included the classic example of how to breed faster racehorses, an argument that attracted numerous theories for over a century. 10 We discussed efforts to produce stable plant hybrids, a problem in which Mendel himself—trained in horticulture and a member...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 674–701.
Published: 01 November 2024
... the skepticism around techniques like mutation breeding within the US plant breeding community, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) “nurtured” the scientific field of atomic agriculture, expanded its institutional base, and guarded its turf against other UN agencies claiming exclusive ownership...
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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 (2005) 79 (1): 50–73.
Published: 01 January 2005
... ), 7 "College Regents," Pullman Herald , May 9 , 1891 , 1 : 2 Earl N. Bressman, "Spillman’s Work on Plant Breeding," Science76 (Sept. 23,1932): 273 William J.
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (1): 5–35.
Published: 01 January 2021
.... (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004); Helen Anne Curry, Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016); Daniel Charles, Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food (Cambridge...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 111–112.
Published: 01 January 2011
..., pasta, and high-fructose corn syrup into African cookery. Frederick Douglass Opie Babson College Global 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. Given the high political profile...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (4): 576–608.
Published: 01 October 2021
... China (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016). 8. Jonathan Harwood, Europe’s Green Revolution and Others Since: The Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant Breeding (London: Routledge, 2012); Govindan Parayil, “The Green Revolution in India: A Case Study of Technological Change...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 194–200.
Published: 01 April 2013
... throughout the plant. Plant virology by its nature has basic and applied research components many fundamental findings will in time result in better strategies for plant breeding or crop improvement. More recently my lab (which currently has an undergraduate honors student, a graduate student...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 513–517.
Published: 01 November 2024
... Atomic Environments: Nuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking, 1945–1960 . 4 The history of plant breeding in twentieth-century America has been illuminated by science historian Helen Anne Curry in her engaging monograph Evolution Made to Order , which delves into the use of X-rays...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (4): 823–824.
Published: 01 October 2000
... that the book has the most relevance for historians. A case in point is the chapter entitled "Cultivar Development in the United States," a partly technical history of the plant breeding of cotton. To be sure, this essay is not intended solely for historians, but in view of its nar? rative review of the search...
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