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Evolution made to order : plant breeding and technological innovation in twentieth-century America /

In the mid-20th century, American plant breeders, frustrated by their dependence on natural variation in creating new crops and flowers, eagerly sought technologies that could extend human control over nature. Their search led them to celebrate a series of strange tools: an x-ray beam directed at do...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Curry, Helen Anne (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
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