Titlebook: New Perspectives on the History of Life Sciences and Agriculture; Denise Phillips,Sharon Kingsland Book 2015 Springer International Publis

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Regionalizing Knowledge: The Ecological Approach of the USDA Office of Dryland Agriculture on the G Agriculture’s Office of Dryland Agriculture in the early twentieth century, under E. C. Chilcott. The office supported branch field stations dispersed across the Great Plains—a region experiencing a tremendous influx of farming immigrants during this period—and these stations undertook coordinated

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Rexford F. Daubenmire and the Ecology of Place: Applied Ecology in the Mid-Twentieth-Century Americnnected regional fieldwork with ecology’s larger theoretical questions about plant communities. A prolific researcher with a national reputation, he practiced applied ecology on rangelands and in forests, orienting much of his work toward determining what vegetation could potentially occupy a habita

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,Agricultural Improvement at China’s First Agricultural Experiment Stations,prove the country’s agriculture through scientific research. Inspired by institutional models of agricultural research in Japan and the USA, reformers and agricultural specialists used the experiment stations as testing grounds for new inputs and methods of cultivation. They took a special interest

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,Did Mendelism Transform Plant Breeding? Genetic Theory and Breeding Practice, 1900–1945,fter 1900. While it is quite difficult to establish just how much impact Mendelism made upon breeders’ actual . over the period in question, the aim of this chapter is to use published sources in order to assess the extent to which the theory might . have altered breeding practice. My conclusions ar

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Breeding Better Peas, Pumpkins, and Peasants: The Practical Mendelism of Erich Tschermak,s. It considers the practical ramifications, in agriculture, eugenics, and politics, of Tschermak’s reading of Mendel’s theory, and examines how Tschermak promoted his theories and practices—and himself—in the shifting contexts of the Austro.Hungarian Empire, Austrian First Republic, and Nazi period

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