First the Seed
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| Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Subject: | Seed industry and trade-United States, Plant breeding, Plant biotechnology |
| Authors: | Jack Ralph Kloppenburg |
| Pages: | 448 pages |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| ISBN: | 9780299192440 |
| Call No: | SB117.3 K66 2004 |
First the Seed spotlights the history of plant breeding and shows how efforts to control the seed have shaped the emergence of the agricultural biotechnology industry. This second edition of a classic work in the political economy of science includes an extensive, new chapter updating the analysis to include the most recent developments in the struggle over the direction of crop genetic engineering.