Curry Helen Anne Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America 9780226790862

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Автор: Curry Helen Anne
Название: Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: 9780226790862
Издательство: Wiley
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Биология и науки о жизни

Размножение и распространение растений

ISBN-10: 022679086X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 295
Вес: 0.44 кг.
Дата издания: 06.07.2021
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 29 halftones; 29 halftones
Размер: 22.91 x 15.19 x 1.70 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Plant breeding and technological innovation in twentieth-century america
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Plant breeders have long sought technologies to extend human control over nature. Early in the twentieth century, this led some to experiment with startlingly strange tools like x-ray machines, chromosome-altering chemicals, and radioactive elements. Contemporary reports celebrated these mutation-inducing methods as ways of generating variation in plants on demand. Speeding up evolution, they imagined, would allow breeders to genetically engineer crops and flowers to order. Creating a new food crop or garden flower would soon be as straightforward as innovating any other modern industrial product.

In Evolution Made to Order, Helen Anne Curry traces the history of Americas pursuit of tools that could intervene in evolution. An immersive journey through the scientific and social worlds of midcentury genetics and plant breeding and a compelling exploration of American cultures of innovation, Evolution Made to Order provides vital historical context for current worldwide ethical and policy debates over genetic engineering.

Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America, Curry Helen Anne