LEADER 00803nam0-2200313---450- 001 990009910190403321 005 20141024131614.0 035 $a000991019 035 $aFED01000991019 035 $a(Aleph)000991019FED01 035 $a000991019 100 $a20141023d1980----km-y0itay50------ba 101 0 $aita 102 $aIT 105 $a--------001yy 200 1 $a<>musei$eschede$fa cura di M. D'Innella, M. Laurini 210 $aMilano$cTouring club italiano$d1980 215 $a223 p.$d29 cm 225 1 $aCapire l'Italia 610 0 $aItalia 702 1$aD'Innella,$bM. 702 1$aLaurini,$bM. 801 0$aIT$bUNINA$gRICA$2UNIMARC 901 $aBK 912 $a990009910190403321 952 $aHC 6/8$bs.i.$fDINGE 959 $aDINGE 996 $aMUSEI$9323977 997 $aUNINA LEADER 04111nam 22005775 450 001 9911046676803321 005 20230126214622.0 010 $a9780226390116 010 $a022639011X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226390116 035 $a(CKB)3710000000868736 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4520146 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001578625 035 $a(DE-B1597)523214 035 $a(OCoLC)959554515 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226390116 035 $a(Perlego)1851537 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000868736 100 $a20200424h20162016 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aEvolution Made to Order $ePlant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America /$fHelen Anne Curry 210 1$aChicago : $cUniversity of Chicago Press, $d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (296 pages) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 08$a9780226390086 311 08$a022639008X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Abbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Mutation Theories -- $t2. An Unsolved Problem -- $t3. Speeding Up Evolution -- $t4. X- rays in the Lab and Field -- $t5. Industrial Evolution -- $tIntroduction -- $t6. Artificial Tetraploidy -- $t7. Evolution to Order -- $t8. Better Evolution through Chemistry -- $t9. Tinkering Technologists -- $t10. The Flower Manufacturers -- $tIntroduction -- $t11. Radiation Revisited -- $t12. Mutation Politics -- $t13. An Atomic- Age Experiment Station -- $t14. Atomic Gardens -- $t15. The Peaceful Atom in Global Agriculture -- $tEpilogue -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aPlant mutation breeding$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPlant mutation breeding$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aPlant genetic engineering$xGenetic engineering$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPlant genetic engineering$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 615 0$aPlant mutation breeding$xHistory 615 0$aPlant mutation breeding$xSocial aspects 615 0$aPlant genetic engineering$xGenetic engineering$xHistory 615 0$aPlant genetic engineering$xSocial aspects 676 $a631.5233 686 $aWG 9300$2rvk 700 $aCurry$b Helen Anne, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01862787 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911046676803321 996 $aEvolution Made to Order$94469080 997 $aUNINA