Author: Frank Joseph Kutka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
New and Historical Issues Concerning Open-pollinated Maize Cultivars in the United States
Endangered Maize
Author: Helen Anne Curry
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520973798
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Charting the political, social, and environmental history of efforts to conserve crop diversity. Many people worry that we're losing genetic diversity in the foods we eat. Over the past century, crop varieties standardized for industrial agriculture have increasingly dominated farm fields. Concerned about what this transition means for the future of food, scientists, farmers, and eaters have sought to protect fruits, grains, and vegetables they consider endangered. They have organized high-tech genebanks and heritage seed swaps. They have combed fields for ancient landraces and sought farmers growing Indigenous varieties. Behind this widespread concern for the loss of plant diversity lies another extinction narrative that concerns the survival of farmers themselves, a story that is often obscured by urgent calls to collect and preserve. Endangered Maize draws on the rich history of corn in Mexico and the United States to uncover this hidden narrative and show how it shaped the conservation strategies adopted by scientists, states, and citizens. In Endangered Maize, historian Helen Anne Curry investigates more than a hundred years of agriculture and conservation practices to understand the tasks that farmers and researchers have considered essential to maintaining crop diversity. Through the contours of efforts to preserve diversity in one of the world's most important crops, Curry reveals how those who sought to protect native, traditional, and heritage crops forged their methods around the expectation that social, political, and economic transformations would eliminate diverse communities and cultures. In this fascinating study of how cultural narratives shape science, Curry argues for new understandings of endangerment and alternative strategies to protect and preserve crop diversity.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520973798
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Charting the political, social, and environmental history of efforts to conserve crop diversity. Many people worry that we're losing genetic diversity in the foods we eat. Over the past century, crop varieties standardized for industrial agriculture have increasingly dominated farm fields. Concerned about what this transition means for the future of food, scientists, farmers, and eaters have sought to protect fruits, grains, and vegetables they consider endangered. They have organized high-tech genebanks and heritage seed swaps. They have combed fields for ancient landraces and sought farmers growing Indigenous varieties. Behind this widespread concern for the loss of plant diversity lies another extinction narrative that concerns the survival of farmers themselves, a story that is often obscured by urgent calls to collect and preserve. Endangered Maize draws on the rich history of corn in Mexico and the United States to uncover this hidden narrative and show how it shaped the conservation strategies adopted by scientists, states, and citizens. In Endangered Maize, historian Helen Anne Curry investigates more than a hundred years of agriculture and conservation practices to understand the tasks that farmers and researchers have considered essential to maintaining crop diversity. Through the contours of efforts to preserve diversity in one of the world's most important crops, Curry reveals how those who sought to protect native, traditional, and heritage crops forged their methods around the expectation that social, political, and economic transformations would eliminate diverse communities and cultures. In this fascinating study of how cultural narratives shape science, Curry argues for new understandings of endangerment and alternative strategies to protect and preserve crop diversity.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Managing Global Genetic Resources
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309131863
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
This anchor volume to the series Managing Global Genetic Resources examines the structure that underlies efforts to preserve genetic material, including the worldwide network of genetic collections; the role of biotechnology; and a host of issues that surround management and use. Among the topics explored are in situ versus ex situ conservation, management of very large collections of genetic material, problems of quarantine, the controversy over ownership or copyright of genetic material, and more.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309131863
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
This anchor volume to the series Managing Global Genetic Resources examines the structure that underlies efforts to preserve genetic material, including the worldwide network of genetic collections; the role of biotechnology; and a host of issues that surround management and use. Among the topics explored are in situ versus ex situ conservation, management of very large collections of genetic material, problems of quarantine, the controversy over ownership or copyright of genetic material, and more.
Vegetables and Fruits: Historical supplement
Impacts of Maize Breeding Research in Latin America, 1966-1997
Author: Michael L. Morris
Publisher: CIMMYT
ISBN: 970648034X
Category : Corn
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Publisher: CIMMYT
ISBN: 970648034X
Category : Corn
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Open Pollinated Corn Variety Trials and a Discussion of the Practical Implications for Open Pollinated Corn in Small Scale Whiskey Production
Author: Anthony Martin Belsito
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The Future Development of Maize and Wheat in the Third World
Author: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Publisher: CIMMYT
ISBN: 9789686127164
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher: CIMMYT
ISBN: 9789686127164
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 39
Author: Jules Janick
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119107725
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Plant Breeding Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on plant genetics and the breeding of all types of crops by both traditional means and molecular methods. Many of the crops widely grown today stem from a very narrow genetic base; understanding and preserving crop genetic resources is vital to the security of food systems worldwide. The emphasis of the series is on methodology, a fundamental understanding of crop genetics, and applications to major crops. It is a serial title that appears in the form of one or two volumes per year.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119107725
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Plant Breeding Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on plant genetics and the breeding of all types of crops by both traditional means and molecular methods. Many of the crops widely grown today stem from a very narrow genetic base; understanding and preserving crop genetic resources is vital to the security of food systems worldwide. The emphasis of the series is on methodology, a fundamental understanding of crop genetics, and applications to major crops. It is a serial title that appears in the form of one or two volumes per year.
Report
Author: United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany, Economic
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany, Economic
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description