Hybrid
Subtitle: the history and science of plant breeding
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780226437132
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part one : From the birth of agriculture to the birth of genetics.; title: Origins: the domestication of plants; title: Landraces: bedrock of traditional agriculture; title: "Improvement" : the agricultural revolution; title: Vegetable mules : the beginnings of deliberate breeding; title: Empire : globalization in earnest; title: Breakthrough : Gregor Mendel; title: Germination : Mendelism and plant breeding in the early twentieth century; title: Luther Burbank : miracle worker or charlatan?; title: "Let history judge" : plant breeding and politics in the USSR; title: Part two : Flowering of a technology.; title: Hybrid! : Corn and the brave new world of F1 hybridization; title: Cornucopia : genetics opens up the horn of plenty; title: Green revolution : can plant breeding feed the world?; title: Ornament : furnishing our gardens; title: Ownership and diversity : issues of property rights over plant genetic resources; title: Conclusions