Hybrid : the history and science of plant breeding
"Starting his story at the birth of agriculture, Kingsbury traces the history of human attempts to make plants more reliable, productive, and nutritious--a story that owes as much to accident and error as to innovation and experiment. Drawing on historical and scientific accounts, as well as a...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press ,
2009
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. From the birth of agriculture to the birth of genetics
- Pt. 2. Flowering of a technology