First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant BiotechnologyFirst 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 to include the most recent developments in the struggle over the direction of crop genetic engineering. 1988 Cloth, 1990 Paperback, Cambridge University Press Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Award of the Agricultural History Society Winner of the Robert K. Merton Award of the American Sociological Association |
Contents
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3 The genetic foundation of American agriculture | 50 |
plant breeding comes of age | 66 |
5 Heterosis and the social division of labor | 91 |
historical perspective | 130 |
7 Seeds of strugle plant genetic resources in teh world system | 152 |
biotechnology botany and business | 191 |
9 Directions for deployment | 242 |
10 Conclusion | 278 |
plant biotechnology in the twentyfirst century | 291 |
Notes | 355 |
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First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology Jack Ralph Kloppenburg No preview available - 2005 |
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activities advanced capitalist nations Agracetus agrichemical agricultural research Agrigenetics applied associated ASTA biological Calgene capital centers CGIAR chemical commercial commodification commodity commodity-form common heritage corporate crop improvement cultivars detasseling division of labor economic effort established experiment stations farm farmers firms funding gene genetic diversity genetic engineering genetic material genome germplasm global GMOs Green Revolution herbicide heterosis historical hybrid corn hybrid seed IBPGR important inbred institutions interests International labor power land-grant universities maize Marx molecular Monsanto NBFs organisms patent percent Pioneer Hi-Bred plant biotechnology plant breeding plant genetic resources plant germplasm plant improvement Plant Patent Act plant science plant scientists plant varieties potential primitive accumulation private breeders problem programs property rights proprietary public breeders public plant public research public sector PVPA resistance scientific seed companies seed industry seed production social society soybean species Table techniques Third World tissue culture United University USDA wheat