Hybrid
Subtitle: the history and science of plant breeding
By: Noel Kingsbury.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226437040
Subjects: Plant breeding -- History; Hybridization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xiii; title: A Note on Names
pagenum: xv; title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: One
title: From the Birth of Agriculture to the Birth of Genetics
pagenum: 13; label: one
title: Origins: The Domestication of Plants
pagenum: 15; label: two
title: Landraces: Bedrock of Traditional Agriculture
pagenum: 35; label: three
title: "Improvement": The Agricultural Revolution
pagenum: 55; label: four
title: Vegetable Mules: The Beginnings of Deliberate Breeding
pagenum: 68; label: five
title: Empire: Globalization in Earnest
pagenum: 97; label: six
title: Breakthrough: Gregor Mendel
pagenum: 142; label: seven
title: Germination: Mendelism and Plant Breeding in the Early Twentieth Century
pagenum: 167; label: eight
title: Luther Burbank: Miracle Worker or Charlatan
pagenum: 187; label: nine
title: "Let History Judge": Plant breeding and Politics in the USSR
pagenum: 197; label: Two
title: Flowering of a Technology
pagenum: 225; label: ten
title: Hybrid! Corn and the Brave New World of F1 Hybridization
pagenum: 217; label: eleven
title: Cornucopia: Genetics opens up the Horn of Plenty
pagenum: 251; label: twelve
title: Green Revolution: Can Plant Breeding Feed the World?
pagenum: 284; label: thirteen
title: Ornament: Furnishing Our Gardens
pagenum: 329; label: fourteen
title: Ownership and Diversity: Issues of Property Rights Over Plant Genetic Resources
pagenum: 364; label: fifteen
title: Conclusions
pagenum: 398; title: Technical Notes
pagenum: 421; title: Bibliographic Essay
pagenum: 437; title: Works Cited and Consulted
pagenum: 451; title: Index
pagenum: 477