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HYBRID
HYBRID
Subtitle:
The History and Science of Plant Breeding
Book Category:
Fiction > General
Author:
Kingsbury, Noel
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 10:
226437043
ISBN 13:
9780226437040
Price:
USD 35.00
Publication Year:
2009

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University of Chicago Press.

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Disheartened 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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