
HYBRID |
Subtitle:
The History and Science of Plant Breeding
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Book Category:
Fiction > General
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Author:
Kingsbury, Noel
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 10:
226437043
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ISBN 13:
9780226437040
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Price:
USD 35.00
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Publication Year:
2009
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Publisher Info
University of Chicago Press. InquiryDisheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket fruits and vegetables, many shoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of succulent red tomatoes plucked straight from the vine, gleaming orange carrots pulled from loamy brown soil, swirling heads of green lettuce basking in the sun. With Hybrid, Noel Kingsbury reveals that even those imaginary perfect foods are themselves far from anything that could properly be called natural; rather, they represent the end of a millennia-long history of selective breeding and hybridization. UK Price: 24 GBP
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