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Old and new plants from the Americas to Europe: potatoes, corn and the genetics of double hybrid corn (1800–1940)
Old and new plants from the Americas to Europe: potatoes, corn and the genetics of double hybrid corn (1800–1940)
- Source :
- Rural History. 31:53-62
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2020.
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Abstract
- We discuss the extension of corn and potatoes in Galician Atlantic agriculture during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as an innovation process that facilitated rapid circulation of a new cattle feed from the Americas to Europe. Specifically, we focus on Galicia from 1890 to 1940, a time of significant scientific interest with regard to genetic improvements. This new science made it possible to develop double hybrid corn plants that became widespread after the 1920s. In this article we will describe the conditions accompanying the introduction and spread of these American crops, as recorded by modernist historiography, then analyse the institutional and social framework – knowledge networks, innovation systems and institutional and social tools – that enabled genetic advances in the twentieth century. To accomplish this, we must trace the journey of seeds and knowledge across the Atlantic from places such as the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (1918) to the Galician Biological Mission (1921), among others.
- Subjects :
- Social framework
History
business.industry
Geography, Planning and Development
Innovation process
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Historiography
06 humanities and the arts
060104 history
Urban Studies
Geography
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Economy
Agriculture
0601 history and archaeology
business
Hybrid corn
Social tools
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14740656 and 09567933
- Volume :
- 31
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Rural History
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........4382f5eef3e4521dcee726e2485b4303
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0956793319000396