Hybrid : the history and science of plant breeding / Noel Kingsbury
- Author:
- Kingsbury, Noël
- Published:
- Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Bristol : University Presses Marketing. - Edition:
- pbk. ed.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 493 pages ; 23 cm
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Meet the Ancestors-Wild Crops -- Nature and Nurture-Evolution, Natural and Human-Directed -- Thrust Unwillingly to the Stage-Plant Breeding Enters Politics -- The Story of Plant Breeding -- Abbreviations -- One.Origins: The Domestication Of Plants -- "A gathering we will go"-From Foraging to Farming -- Maize Mysteries -- As the Farmer Drives the Plow-Evolution in Early Agriculture -- Serendipity-Interspecific Hybridization -- Planting Cities and Streets-Domestication and Civilization -- Two.Landraces: Bedrock Of Traditional Agriculture -- I unique to Time and Place-Landraces -- Weaving a Coat of Many Colors-The Origins of Diversity -- Seed and Spirit-Diversity and Landrace Politics -- Three."Improvement": The Agricultural Revolution -- A Time of Ferment-The Age of Multiple Revolutions -- From Fodder to Fruit-New Crops and New Markets -- New Rice, New Methods-Song China's "Green Revolution" -- Hemmed between the Mountains and the Sea-Japan -- Four.Vegetable Mules: The Beginnings Of Deliberate Breeding -- Floral Facts of Life-Early Knowledge about Plants and Sex -- Outrage! The Cautious Beginnings of Deliberate Hybridization -- The Professors-Kölreuter and Other Academic Hybridists -- Gentleman Practitioners-Thomas Andrew Knight and Others -- Sex and the Single Strawberry -- Sweet Necessity-Sugarcane and Sugar Beet -- Moravia-Land of Progress -- From the Greenhouse to the Pulpit-Hybridization and Popular Attitudes -- Five.Empire: Globalization In Earnest -- A Universal Garden-Global Exchanges of Crops -- From One Hedgerow to Many Fields-Finding and Distributing New Cereal Varieties -- Breeding a Dynasty-The Vilmorin Family -- Onwards and Upwards-The "German Method" -- Weaving the Bread Basket of the World in Poverty and the Potato-A New Crop Is Adapted Slowly to a New Home -- Seeds of Conflict-Variety Selection and Imperial Rule -- Cotton, Spinner of Many Troubles -- An Apple a Day-The Rise of the Fruit Industry -- The Strawberry-A Soft and Juicy Story Continues -- A Free-fir-All-The Arrival of Seed Catalog -- Six.Breakthrough: Gregor Mendel -- Sowing the Prairies and the Plains-Plant Breeding in the Late-Nineteenth-Century United States -- Britons Unbending-The 1899 Conference and the Introduction of Mendel -- A New Word for a New Concept-"Genetics" and the 1902 and 1906 Conferences -- Light from the North-Scandinavian Progress in Crop Genetics -- Seven.Germination: Mendelism And Plant Breeding In The Early Twentieth Century -- Twilight of Gentleman Amateur-Mendel in Britain -- Slowly and Unsteadily-Mendelian Progress in Germany and France -- Plant Breeding in a Packet-W. Atlee Burpee -- The Independent Spirit Lives on-Potatoes -- An Unpleasant Diversion-Eugenics -- Eight.Luther Burbank: Miracle Worker Or Charlatan? -- The Gene Pool as Cornucopia-Rise of a Genetic Wizard -- A Reputation Impaled-On a Spineless Cactus -- Nine."Let History Judge": Plant Breeding And Politics In The Ussr -- Days of Hope-Nikolai Vavilov -- Days of Delusion-Ivan Michurin and "Soviet Creative Darwinism" -- Days of Madness-Trofim Lysenko and "Agrobiology" -- Seed Collecting at Gunpoint-Nazi Germany and Genetic Resources -- Ten.Hybrid! Corn And The Brave New World Of F1 Hybridization -- Gift of the Gods-Corn -- Shows, Lab Tests, and Beauty Contests-Just What Makes Good Corn? -- Too Fantastic a Concept? The Birth of Hybrid Corn -- New Crops, New Business -- The Scientist as Mystic? The Barbara McClintock Legend -- "CRUNCH!" the Irresistible Savor of Summer-Sweet Corn -- Power Politics, Pesticides, and Obesity-the F1 Corn Story Continues -- A Con-Trick with Corn? A Critical Perspective on Hybrid Corn -- Eleven.Cornucopia: Genetics Opens Up The Horn Of Plenty -- Crossing the Boundaries-The Hybrid Story Continues -- Casting the Net Ever Wider-Hybridizing between Species -- In Full Flower-Plant Breeding as an Applied Science -- Compounding the Compounds-Breeding for Plant Chemistry -- The Genetics of the Roulette Wheel-Mutation Breeding -- One Set of Chromosomes Good, Two Sets Better-Polyploidy -- The Juggernaut of Progress Rolls on-The Gastronomic and Social Impacts of Plant Breeding -- Cereal Makeover-Redesigning Wheat -- The Grass Keeps on Getting Greener-A Short Journey along the Back Roads of Breeding -- Twelve.Green Revolution: Can Plant Breeding Feed The World? -- The Baleful Eye-Thomas Malthus and Food Policy -- Iowa Farm Boy Makes Good in Mexico-Norman Borlaug -- A Fantasy no More-India Feeds Itself -- Food for Half Our Race-Boosting Rice Yields -- New Seeds, New Hope, New Problems-The Green Revolution's First Decade -- Beyond Yield-The Revolution Marches on -- Not Green and Not a Revolution? Critical Voices -- Malthus Defied! Conclusions -- Thirteen.Ornament: Furnishing Our Gardens -- The Show's the Thing-The Florists and Their Flowers -- Tulip Madness and the Origins of Capitalism -- Passion and Obsession-Nurserymen Breeders and Gentleman Amateurs -- A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose-But the Genes are Never the Same -- A Garden in a Packet-The Flower Seed and Bulb Trade -- Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose-The Twentieth Century's Endless Search for Novelty -- The Perfection of the Unnatural-Ornamental Plant Breeding as Art and Fashion -- Fourteen.Ownership And Diversity: Issues Of Property Rights Over Plant Genetic Resources -- Use It, Save It, or Lose It! Gene Banks -- For the Public Good-Plant Breeding by the Taxpayer -- Whoever Owns the Seed Owns the Crop-Private and Corporate Breeding -- Keep Off' Those Seeds Are Mine! The Rise of Patent Protection -- Helping Hands or Thieving Hands? Patents, Developing Countries, and the International Agencies -- Challenging the Boundaries-Participatory Breeding -- Respecting Nature, but What Is Natural? The Dilemmas of Breeding for Organic Agriculture -- Counting the Cost of Monopolies-Some Conclusions -- Fifteen.Conclusions -- The Grand Narrative: A Summary of Plant Breeding History -- Of Empires and Harvests-What Drives Plant Breeding? -- Henry Ford and the Genetic Bottleneck -- Fundamental Rupture or Logical Progression? GM Crops and History -- Attack of the Literary Locusts-The Opponents of Plant Breeding -- The Future is Creole.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780226437132 (pbk.)
0226437132 (pbk.) - Note:
- Originally published: 2009.
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- DuBois copy: Purchased with funds from the Robert E. and Joyce L. Umbaugh Libraries Endowment for the Penn State DuBois Campus Library; 2011.
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