Changing techniques in crop plant classification: molecularization at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany during the 1980s.
Modern methods of analysing biological materials, including protein and DNA sequencing, are increasingly the objects of historical study. Yet twentieth-century taxonomic techniques have been overlooked in one of their most important contexts: agricultural botany. This paper addresses this omission b...
| Publicado en: | Annals of Science Vol. 74; no. 2; pp. 149 - 165 |
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