First the seed : the political economy of plant biotechnology, 1492-2000 /

Kloppenburg, Jack Ralph.

First the seed : the political economy of plant biotechnology, 1492-2000 / Jack Ralph Kloppenburg, Jr. - Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988. - xviii, 349 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

0521326915 (hbk.)


Seed industry and trade--United States.
Plant breeding--United States.
Plant biotechnology--United States.
Seed industry and trade.
Plant breeding.
Plant biotechnology.