Hybrid - The History and Science of Plant Breeding

Zusammenfassung Drawing on historical and scientific accounts, as well as a rich trove of anecdotes, this title 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.

Product details

• Authors: Noel Kingsbury, Kingsbury Noel
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2009
• EAN: 9780226437040
• ISBN: 978-0-226-43704-0
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 230 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; SCIENCE / History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Horticulture, Agricultural science, Commercial horticulture, Horticulture, Agronomy and crop production