From biological revolution to biotech age : plant biotechnology in British agriculture since 1950
Journal: White Rose eTheses Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York)
Year: 2017

The modern Biotech Age possesses a very particular set of characteristics: the use of recombinant DNA technology, a close relationship between academic science and industry and, in Britain, public hostility to genetically modified crops. Yet despite increasingly widespread recognition among historians of science that biotechnology has a long and multi-faceted history, there is no thorough account of the history of plant biotechnology in British agriculture. Harnessing previously unexamined archi