Recalcitrant maize: Conserving agrobiodiversity in the era of genetically modified organisms

M Fenzi, J Foyer, V Boisvert, H Perales - Plants, People, Planet, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement The problem of genetically modified maize contamination in
Mexico is the result of both planned and unplanned consequences of scientific and political …

Northern Normal–Laboratory Networks, Microbial Culture Collections, and Taxonomies of Power (1939-2000)

C Kirchhelle, C Kirchhelle - 2024 - osf.io
Bacteriophage-typing–using bacterial viruses to identify bacteria at the species and strain
level–was the gold standard technology underlying the rapid expansion of international …

With and against the Grain: The Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center and Modest Narratives of Green Revolution in Taiwan, 1963–2002

L Chu - Agricultural History, 2023 - read.dukeupress.edu
This article studies the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center (AVRDC) in
Taiwan. It begins with the Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction …

Class Divisions in Use: The Swedish Social Group Taxonomy as Difference Technology, 1911–1970

CF Smedberg - Contemporary European History, 2023 - cambridge.org
This article investigates an important but understudied phenomenon: the bureaucratic class
division, which is analysed as a difference technology for envisioning, studying and …

Bloody marvels: In situ seed saving and intergenerational malleability

K Dow - Medical anthropology quarterly, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents ethnographic research with in situ seed savers and seed activists in
London. Unpicking the knotty relations between kinship, place, and generation among seed …

Cytogenetics of maize in Mexico as a field of transnational exchange: The case of Takeo Ángel Kato Yamakake

DAM Rojas - Plants, People, Planet, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement Maize is one of the most consumed grains worldwide. Its
production and international trade are expected to continue increasing because of its use as …

The history of science through the prism of race

EK Burton, S Ghoshal - BJHS Themes, 2024 - cambridge.org
One methodological approach to grasping a 'big-picture'history of modern science involves
tracing the complex entanglements between scientific knowledge and the development of …

Pollination and the Horrors of Yield: Scarcity and Survival in the Glasshouse

K Lynes - Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 2023 - catalystjournal.org
Pollination is a lynchpin anchoring multispecies survival, but in the racial capitalist
configurations of condensed environment agriculture, pollination politics are informed by life …

The fascist Green Revolution

M Sollai - Plants, People, Planet, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement The Green Revolution is commonly understood as the dramatic
increase in food production in Mexico and India between the 1940s and 1970s due to the …

Las estadísticas de consumo y el cesto de provisiones en México en las décadas de 1920 y 1930

JV Domínguez - Estudios Sociales del Estado, 2022 - estudiossocialesdelestado.org
Al finalizar la Revolución mexicana, el Estado que emergió se vio envuelto en crisis
recurrentes de legitimidad. Uno de los medios por los cuales se estabilizaron ciertos …