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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 194–200.
Published: 01 April 2013
.... I am a molecular plant virologist with the broad goal of understanding how viruses cause disease in plants. I joined Texas A&M University, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, in December 1994, working on a virus complex that is colloquially known in the Gulf Coast states to cause St...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 626–627.
Published: 01 October 2003
... the devel? opment and deployment of genetically-engineered (GE) plants. There are sev? eral examples where Thacker appears unfamiliar with the techniques, includ? ing the statement that "transgenic bananas have now been developed that contain the inactivated viruses that cause cholera, hepatitis B...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 623–626.
Published: 01 October 2003
...? eral examples where Thacker appears unfamiliar with the techniques, includ? ing the statement that "transgenic bananas have now been developed that contain the inactivated viruses that cause cholera, hepatitis B and diarrhoea" (289). [Cholera is a bacterium; cholera, hepatitis B virus (HBV...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 531–535.
Published: 01 July 2021
... eradication is in sight. Eradication of smallpox and (hopefully) polio viruses opens up a new concern these viruses can be used as agents for biological warfare, as there will be no immunity in human populations. Yellow fever is a superb example of how a virus has adapted to the urban environment, and how...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 444–484.
Published: 01 July 2020
... threat that represents the rise and expansion of COVID-19 from its epicenter in Wuhan, China, to other cities and countries around the world. Animals are very present in both cases. In the first, we see the immense and uncountable number of wild or domestic animals deaths, and in the second, the virus...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 230–246.
Published: 01 April 2016
... lands, which they needed to conserve, but were not deemed fit for deciding how to redistribute the benefits of their own labor. Though the primary agenda of the veterinary staff of the Gambia was rinderpest control, infection was not limited to this one deadly virus. On his expedition to the Gambia...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 622–623.
Published: 01 October 2003
... resistant bacteria, the use of antibiotics as feed additives in the meat and poultry industry, mosquito transmitted diseases such as West Nile virus, and the introduction of pest-resistant, genetically-modified (GM) crops are nearly daily topics in newspapers, the internet, and television. Most news related...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (2): 265–267.
Published: 01 April 2006
..." whose composition and structure have long been affected through subtle management by indigenous peoples. Charles Zerner attacks the rain forest romanticism of the past quarter-century by analyzing the "viral forest in motion" (248). He does this using the Ebola virus, Congo Basin forests...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (2): 297–299.
Published: 01 April 2020
... and eliminate the virus poliomyelitis, or polio. While research was ongoing in the white community, there was not sufficient examination of how this disease affected African Americans, nor were there many facilities in the South that would cater to African American patients. Tuskegee provided a solution to both...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 269–295.
Published: 01 July 2006
... Thompson to solve was lettuce mosaic virus. Although lettuce mosaic virus was a longstanding, endemic problem in large-scale lettuce production, by the early 1950s the disease threatened the entire industry, especially in the Salinas Valley. A1956 article in the Salinas Californian observed, "common...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 373–375.
Published: 01 July 2006
..., scientists and the public questioned insecticide use and im? poundment, leading to restrictions on these practices. Floridians of the late twentieth century lived with reduced populations of mosquitoes and no longer appreciated the significance of mosquito control. The spread of West Nile virus in Florida...
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Searching for Stability: Banana Blight and the Revitalization of Jamaica's Sugar Industry, 1910–1940
Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 315–348.
Published: 01 August 2024
... to overcome. Although the disease did not result in the wholesale destruction of smallholder-produced sugar, it placed smallholders at a strong disadvantage in production compared to the planter class. Mosaic disease, a virus that creates discolored patches on canes and reduces their yield, was first...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (3): 414–447.
Published: 01 August 2023
... crucial technical expertise. The transfer of sweet potatoes' fleshy tubers—the typical means of exchanging germplasm in this clonally propagated crop—easily resulted in the transfer of viruses if care were not taken to ensure virus-free stocks. For a field collection of sweet potatoes, an introduced virus...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 201–220.
Published: 01 April 2009
... of Desiccation in West Africa," Geographical Review 30:2 (1940): 297-300. 16 Adrian Frank Posnette, "Recollections of a Genetical Plant Pathologist," Annual Review of Phytopathology 18 (Sept. 1980): 2-6; Danquah, Cocoa Diseases and Politics in Ghana, 63-64; A. F. Posnette, "Cacao Virus Research in West...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 55–77.
Published: 01 January 2017
... Tomé e Prínicpe,” 74 – 76 ; M. S. Vieira , “Relatório dos serviços de Agricultura,” in Boletim Official de São Tomé (São Tomé: [Government of Portugal], 1929 ); G. A. Ameyaw et al., “Perspectives on Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD) Management in Ghana,” Crop Protection...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 311–337.
Published: 01 July 2016
... basic goods and services shot up. Various commodities bound for Europe languished on the docks and in warehouses for weeks. Fires raged in Boston because there were no horses to pull the water wagons. Men pulled trolleys and hacks. Mules were also vulnerable to the virus. Uninfected horses were...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (1): 52–82.
Published: 01 January 2001
...,PuertoRico, BulletinNo. 44 (San Juan:Uni? versityof PuertoRico AgriculturalExperimentStation,1937). 56 / Agricultural History worked frantically to limit its impact. In 1918, scientists identified the dis? ease as the mosaic virus, although they still had no clear idea of how it was transmitted. Finally...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 607–641.
Published: 01 November 2024
... history, the most influential episode was a crusade against a virus, not a pest. From 1947 to 1954, a bilateral commission fought foot-and-mouth disease, or aftosa, a highly contagious virus that weakened but usually did not kill cloven-hoofed animals and, according to experts, cut livestock production...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 414–443.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., Governor Alfred E. Driscoll Papers; Daniel Bergsma to William H. Allen, July 31, 1952, Folder 379, Box 13, Governor Alfred E. Driscoll Papers; Hog Virus Enters Jersey: 210 Head Sent from Nebraska to Be Destroyed at Secaucus, New York Times, July 4, 1952. 125. State Fighting New Disease Among Swine...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 108–140.
Published: 01 January 2020
... in their fields.7 Chardón pioneered the 110 Agricultural History study of aphids as a vector for spreading the mosaic virus, which decimated sugarcane crops around the world in the early twentieth century. He was a close confidant of Nathaniel Lord Britton and Elizabeth Britton, founders of the New York Botanical...
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