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

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First the seed spotlights the history of plant breeding and shows how efforts to control the seed have shaped the emergence of the agricultural biotechnology industry. This second edition of a classic work in the political economy of science includes an extensive, new chapter updating the analysis t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kloppenburg, Jack Ralph
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2004.
Edition:2nd edition.
Series:Science and technology in society.
Subjects:
Seed industry and trade > United States.
Plant breeding > United States.
Plant biotechnology > United States.
Seed industry and trade.
Plant breeding.
Plant biotechnology.
Seeds.
Biotechnology
Seeds
Semences > Industrie > États-Unis.
Plantes > Amélioration > États-Unis.
Plantes > Biotechnologie > États-Unis.
Semences > Industrie.
Plantes > Amélioration.
Plantes > Biotechnologie.
Biotechnologie.
Semences.
bioengineering.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Agronomy > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Sustainable Agriculture.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of tables; List of figures; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; Acknowledgments; Lists of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Science, agriculture, and social change; 3. The genetic foundation of American agriculture; 4. Public science ascendant: plant breeding comes of age; 5. Heterosis and the social division of labor; 6. Plant breeders' rights and the social division of labor: historical perspective; 7. Seeds of struggle; plant genetic resources in the world system; 8. Outdoing evolution: biotechnology, botany, and business.
  • 9. Directions for deployment10. Conclusion; 11. Still the seed: plant biotechnology in the twenty-first century; Notes; References; Index.

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