First the seed : the political economy of plant biotechnology, 1492-2000

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First the seed : the political economy of plant biotechnology, 1492-2000

Jack Ralph Kloppenburg, Jr

Cambridge University Press, 1988

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Bibliography: p. 312-344

Includes index

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内容説明

This history of the scientific and commercial lines of plant development in the United States traces the transformation of the seed from a public good produced and reproduced by farmers into a commodity controlled by businesses and corporations divorced from the uses of their product.

目次

  • Introduction
  • science, agriculture and social change
  • the genetic foundation of American agriculture
  • public science ascendant - plant breeding comes of age
  • heterosis and the social division of labour
  • plant breeders rights and the social division of labour - an historical perspective
  • seeds of struggle - germplasm resources in the world system
  • outdoing evolution - biotechnology, botany, and business
  • conclusion.

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