Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of nurseries in the Green Revolution. Nurseries were sets of seeds assembled to test particular traits and sent to breeders around the world to trial. Focusing on wheat nurseries of the 1960s and 70s, I highlight the materials that were central to their distribution, as well as the breeders who planted them. Through this analysis, I trouble the common narrative of the Green Revolution as emerging from centers of international agricultural science, showing the networks of expertise, seed transfer, field trials, and data collection that underpinned this process of agricultural transformation.

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