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Bibliography
Many people bring to our attention specific books and publications that are only available on their own bookshelf or at a nearby library. We would like to find a way to digitize these books so they can become available to all.
 
 

La saga des Vilmorin : Grainiers depuis 1774  
Claude-Marie Vadrot
Delachaux et Niestlé 2014

 
  Hybrid: The History and Science of Plant Breeding  
Noel Kingsbury
The University of Chicago Press 2009
Complete bibliography (in PDF format), generously provided by the author.
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  Honoring An Era - A History of Illinois Crop Improvement Association, Inc.
by James R. Shearl
Illinois Crop Improvement Association, Inc.
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  The Sunflower
Charles B Heiser Jr.
University of Oklahoma Press 1976
 
  Twee eeuwen tuinbouwzaden (Two Centuries of Horticultural Seeds)
Bruin, P., E.A.
Den Haag, Nederlandse Vereniging voor het Tuinzaadbedrijfsleven (Dutch Association for the Horticultural Seed business) 1992
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  The Garden of Invention
A wide-ranging and delightful narrative history of the celebrated plant breeder
Luther Burbank and the business of farm and garden in early twentieth century America

Jane S. Smith
The Penguin Press
 
  De mémoire de potagers : Petites et grandes histoires des variétés de légumes
Serge Schall, Fourié
Editions Plume de Carotte, Toulouse, France
ISBN : 978-2-915810-25-7
EAN13 : 9782915810257
 
 

Seed Wars: Controversies and Cases on Plant Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property
Dr. Keith Aoki, Professor of Law, University of California, Davis
Carolina Academic Press 2008  -  ISBN: 978-1-59460-050-0
Seed Wars is a comprehensive overview of the current domestic and international legal controversies regarding intellectual property protections for plant genetic resources (PGRs) over the past three decades.

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1440-1940
Cinquième Centenaire de la Maison Loras, Graines Sélectionnées
Tassin-La-Demi-Lune, Lyon, France 1940

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The Kitchen Garden
Eugene Sebastian Delamer
London 1855
Digitized by Google Books - Contains multiple references to old vegetable varieties.
(submitted by Keith Foster, Exhibition Seeds, United Kingdom)

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La Società Produttori Sementi (1911-2002) – Ricerca scientifica e organizzazione d’impresa
Emanuele Felice
Il Mulino – 2004 
340 pagg – ISBN 88-15-09920-4
A history of La Società Produttori Sementi, founded on 1911, one of Europe's oldest seed companies

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Feeding the success of breeding
Published by De Ruiter Seeds
December 2006

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  Concise Encyclopedia of Crop Improvement : Institutions, Persons, Theories, Methods, and Histories
Prof. Rolf Schlegel
ISBN: 978-1-56022-146-3  ISBN-10: 1560221461
Haworth Press, New York, London, Oxford, USA, 2007, pp 331
 
  The Story of Seed Certification in California (1937-1976)
Recollections of Frank G. Parsons
(Copies available at the California Crop Improvement Association)
 
  Plant Breeding and Biotechnology
Societal Context and the Future of Agriculture

Denis J. Murphy - Cambridge University Press 2007 -
ISBN-13: 9780521530880
 
  People, Plants, and Genes: The Story of Crops and Humanity
Denis J. Murphy - Oxford University Press 2007 - ISBN-13: 978-0-19-920714-5
 
  American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace
John C. Culver and John Hyde - New York - Norton, 2000
 
  Histoire et amélioration de cinquante plantes cultivées
by C. Doré, F. Varoquaux - 2006 
 
  Histoires de légumes: Des origines à l'orée du XXIe siècle
Michel Pitrat, Claude Foury - 2003
 
  The Man Who Fed the World
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug and His Battle to End World Hunger
Leon Hesser - Durban House Press - ISBN: 1-930754-90-6
 
  The Price of Vision: The Diary of Henry A. Wallace, 1942-1946
Henry A. Wallace  - John Morton Blum, ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973
 
  The Centers of Origin of Cultivated Plants
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov. 1926
 
  The Origin, Variation, Immunity and Breeding of Cultivated Plants
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov
 
  Roswell Garst – A Biography
Harold Lee
Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA
The Henry A. Wallace Series on Agricultural History and Rural Studies. 1984
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  Lords of the Harvest
Daniel Charles - Perseus Publishing, Cambridge, MA 2001
 
  The Hybrid Corn-Makers
Richard A. Crabb - West Chicago Publishing Co.
 
  Vegetable breeding for market development – East-West Seeds 1982-2002
Published by the company
 
  The Master of Seeds – Life and Work of Claude Hope
Ricardo Arias Martinez - Burpee Books, 1992
 
  Merchants of Grain
Dan Morgan - Viking Press 1972
 
  For the Love of the Land – Napoleon U. Roy, A Biography
Win Miller - Roy Investment Co., 1999
 
  The Merchants of Seed – A history of the Canadian seed industry
Canadian Seed Trade Association 1995
 
  Feeding the Success of Breeding
The history of De Ruiter Seeds
 
  From plowshares To Jets - I was There, the Story of Robert C. Appleman
Copyright Mary Ann Andersen - Printed by Gorham Printing, Rochester, Washington, 2003
 
  The Story of Corn
Betty Fussell - Albert A. Knopf, New York, 1992
 
  Hybrid Seed Corn Enterprises: A Brief History
Curtis Norskog
 
  Maize Seed Industries in Developing Countries
Michael L. Morris, Editor
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  Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind
Henry Hobhouse (1995)
 

 

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