Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America Psychological The land is completely sterile--and

The land is completely sterile--and the blight is spreading

bittersweet tale that introduces the irrepressible aging poet Thomas Murphy--a paean to the mystery

Author: Trevor Van Gorp

A tour through one of the oldest

Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America Psychological The land is completely sterile--andPlant breeders have long sought technologies to extend human control over nature. Early in the twentieth century, this led some to experiment with startlingly strange tools like x ray machines, chromosome altering chemicals, and radioactive elements. Contemporary reports celebrated these mutation inducing methods as ways of generating variation in plants on demand. Speeding up evolution, they imagined, would allow breeders to genetically engineer