عنوان

Evolution made to order :

شابک

022639008X

شابک

9780226390086

شابک اشتباه

9780226390116

عنوان اصلي

Evolution made to order :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

plant breeding and technological innovation in twentieth-century America /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Helen Anne Curry.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

London :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

The University of Chicago Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2016.

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2016

نام خاص و کميت اثر

x, 285 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

Mutation theories -- An unsolved problem -- Speeding up evolution -- X-rays in the lab and field -- Industrial evolution -- Artificial tetraploidy -- Evolution to order -- Better evolution through chemistry -- Tinkering technologists -- The flower manufacturers -- Radiation revisited -- Mutation politics -- An atomic-age experiment station -- Atomic gardens -- The peaceful atom in global agriculture.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"In the mid-twentieth 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 dormant seeds, a drop of chromosome-altering colchicine on a flower bud, and a piece of radioactive cobalt in a field of growing crops. According to scientific and popular reports of the time, these mutation-inducing methods would generate variation on demand, in turn allowing breeders to genetically engineer crops and flowers to order. Creating a new crop or 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 America's pursuit of tools that could speed up evolution. It is an immersive journey through the scientific and social worlds of midcentury genetics and plant breeding and a compelling exploration of American cultures of innovation. As Curry reveals, the creation of genetic technologies was deeply entangled with other areas of technological innovation--from electromechanical to chemical to nuclear. An important study of biological research and innovation in America, Evolution Made to Order provides vital historical context for current worldwide ethical and policy debates over genetic engineering."--Publisher's description.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

9780226390116

موضوع مستند نشده

Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer, Bitterfeld

موضوع مستند نشده

Plant genetic engineering-- Genetic engineering-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Plant genetic engineering-- Social aspects-- United States.

موضوع مستند نشده

Plant mutation breeding-- Social aspects-- United States.

موضوع مستند نشده

Plant mutation breeding-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Biotechnologie

موضوع مستند نشده

Gentechnologie

موضوع مستند نشده

Pflanzenzüchtung

موضوع مستند نشده

Plant mutation breeding.

موضوع مستند نشده

United States.

بدون عنوان

7

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Curry, Helen Anne

تاريخ عمليات

20200822102247.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y