Download or read book The Hybrid corn Makers written by Alexander Richard Crabb and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eternal servant. Land of the sleeping giant. Henry agard wallace. New temple on old foundations. Just the beginning.
Download or read book The Hybrid Corn makers written by Alexander Richard Crabb and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hybrid written by Noel Kingsbury and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket fruits and vegetables, many shoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of succulent red tomatoes plucked straight from the vine, gleaming orange carrots pulled from loamy brown soil, swirling heads of green lettuce basking in the sun. With Hybrid, Noel Kingsbury reveals that even those imaginary perfect foods are themselves far from anything that could properly be called natural; rather, they represent the end of a millennia-long history of selective breeding and hybridization. Starting his story at the birth of agriculture, Kingsbury traces the history of human attempts to make plants more reliable, productive, and nutritious—a story that owes as much to accident and error as to innovation and experiment. Drawing on historical and scientific accounts, as well as a rich trove of anecdotes, Kingsbury shows how scientists, amateur breeders, and countless anonymous farmers and gardeners slowly caused the evolutionary pressures of nature to be supplanted by those of human needs—and thus led us from sparse wild grasses to succulent corn cobs, and from mealy, white wild carrots to the juicy vegetables we enjoy today. At the same time, Kingsbury reminds us that contemporary controversies over the Green Revolution and genetically modified crops are not new; plant breeding has always had a political dimension. A powerful reminder of the complicated and ever-evolving relationship between humans and the natural world, Hybrid will give readers a thoughtful new perspective on—and a renewed appreciation of—the cereal crops, vegetables, fruits, and flowers that are central to our way of life.
Download or read book The Business of Breeding written by Deborah Kay Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fitzgerald (history of technology, MIT) studies the development of one agricultural commodity as a vehicle for delineating the complexities of agricultural history. The ambiguous role of agricultural science as a scientific discipline engaged in the practical application of scientific knowledge to social and economic problems is expressed in the politics and goals of land-grant universities, agribusiness, and farmers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book A Professor s Story of Hybrid Corn written by Herbert Kendall Hayes and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origin of corn and of corn hybrids; Early studies of shull, East and Hayes; Other early investigations relating to hybrid vigor in corn; Two important contributions of jones; The relation of characters of inbreds to those of their hybrids; The discovery of to methods of prediction; Genetic diversity; General and specific combining ability; Heterosis; Genetics and cytogenetics of corn; Technics in the production of hybrid seed; Breeding methods; Production and distribution of hybrid corn seed; The foundation seed program for open-pedigree hybrids in various states; What of the future.
Download or read book Handbook of Maize written by Jeff L. Bennetzen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maize is one of the world’s highest value crops, with a multibillion dollar annual contribution to agriculture. The great adaptability and high yields available for maize as a food, feed and forage crop have led to its current production on over 140 million hectares worldwide, with acreage continuing to grow at the expense of other crops. In terms of tons of cereal grain produced worldwide, maize has been number one for many years. Moreover, maize is expanding its contribution to non-food uses, including as a major source of ethanol as a fuel additive or fuel alternative in the US. In addition, maize has been at the center of the transgenic plant controversy, serving as the first food crop with released transgenic varieties. By 2008, maize will have its genome sequence released, providing the sequence of the first average-size plant genome (the four plant genomes that are now sequenced come from unusually tiny genomes) and of the most complex genome sequenced from any organism. Among plant science researchers, maize has the second largest and most productive research community, trailing only the Arabidopsis community in scale and significance. At the applied research and commercial improvement levels, maize has no peers in agriculture, and consists of thousands of contributors worthwhile. A comprehensive book on the biology of maize has not been published. The "Handbook of Maize: the Genetics and Genomics" center on the past, present and future of maize as a model for plant science research and crop improvement. The books include brief, focused chapters from the foremost maize experts and feature a succinct collection of informative images representing the maize germplasm collection.
Download or read book Hybrid Corn and Its Place in Michigan written by Michigan State University. Cooperative Extension Service and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Donald F Jones and Hybrid Corn written by Stanley Leonard Becker and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memo Your Guide to Better Hybrids written by Pfister Hybrid Corn Co. (El Paso, Ill.) and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hybrid Corn written by Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Business of Breeding written by Deborah K. Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Is Hybrid Corn written by University of Wisconsin. Extension Service and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hybrid Corn Pioneers written by Steve Kenkel and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hybrid Corn in Wisconsin written by University of Wisconsin. Extension Service and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maize Genetics And Breeding In The 20th Century written by Peter A Peterson and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1999-01-18 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the biographies, and a related summary, of geneticists and breeders of maize who have contributed to the major discoveries in the 20th century. Their relationships to one another, as well as the general developments in maize genetics and breeding growth, are included. Photographs of events and related personnel, all part of the biographic presentation, portray the maize community and its growth. Most of the geneticists and breeders have a common origin in their training, and their sucessors are among the current contributors to maize development.
Download or read book Progress in Hybrid Corn Production written by George Harlan Dungan and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 187 Hybrids from Inbreds and Foundation Seed written by Pfister Corn Company and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
