This paper charts the history of the Rockefeller Foundation's participation in the collection
and long-term preservation of genetic diversity in crop plants from the 1940s through the …

Combining the cultural history of science and the sociology of social problems, this article
analyzes the trajectory of policies and approaches for the conservation of crop diversity …

How plant genetic resources conservation became a global issue; The 1967 FAO/IBP
technical conference: ex situ conservation takes the lead; Breeding strategies and …

For ages, farmers have domesticated plant varieties, while scientists have" made" nature
through hybridization and other processes. This give and take-mediated through …

Abstract Between 1907 and 1915 Albert Francis Blakeslee transformed both himself and the
Connecticut Agricultural College at Storrs into things neither had been at the beginning of …

This anchor volume to the series Managing Global Genetic Resources examines the
structure that underlies efforts to preserve genetic material, including the worldwide network …

The activities of scientific practitioners at publicly supported agricultural colleges and
experiment stations were crucial to the successful academic institutionalization of genetics …

When in the 1940s the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) set its sights on the agriculture of Latin
American countries, it had a vision that this was both backward yet held real possibilities for …

This introduction provides readers with a general overview on the content and structure of
the book, the context in which the major issues related to plant genetic resources for food …

THE science of genetics was introduced in Mexico lected Drosophila flies there in 1935,
1936, and 1938. HislastinginfluenceonMexicangeneticsstart… at the beginning of the …