Biology of Business

agriculture

Cultivating organisms for human use. Agriculture demonstrates domestication and optimization: selecting for desired traits, managing populations, and engineering environments for production.

93 entities tagged with "agriculture"

Citations (1)

Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production

Definitions (1)

monoculture

Inventions (86)

Animal-driven rotary mill

Anthrax vaccine

Ard plough

Automatic milking system

Barbed wire

Beekeeping

Carruca

Chinampa

Combine harvester

Continuous track tractor

Cotton (New World)

Cotton (Old World)

DDT insecticide

Domestication of barley

Domestication of bees

Domestication of cacao trees

Domestication of cattle

Domestication of chickens

Domestication of citrus fruit

Domestication of coconuts

Domestication of cucumbers

Domestication of flax

Domestication of goats

Domestication of maize

Domestication of millet

Domestication of pigeons

Domestication of pigs (China)

Domestication of pigs (Near East)

Domestication of potatoes

Domestication of rice

Domestication of sheep

Domestication of soybeans

Domestication of sugarcane

Domestication of the dog

Domestication of vanilla

Domestication of wheat

Dry latrines

Genetically modified organism

Genetically modified plant

Glyphosate

Golden rice

Grafting

Grain cradle

Grain elevator

Greenhouse

Haber process

Heated greenhouse

Herbicide-resistant GMO

Hoe

Horse collar

Horse-drawn seed drill

In-ovo sexing

Irrigation

Lawn mower

Maple syrup

Mould-board plough

Multi-tube seed drill

Nailed horseshoe

Nixtamalization

Opium poppy cultivation

Orangery

Paddy field

Portable engine

Post windmill

Quern-stone

Rain gauge

Reaping machine

Salmon farming

Scythe

Seaweed farming

Seed drill

Sericulture

Shaduf

Sickle

Steel plough

Sugar beet

Superphosphate

Three-field crop rotation

Three-point hitch

Threshing board

Threshing machine

Tobacco

Traction engine

Tractor

Vanilla hand-pollination

Winepress

Organisms (5)

Corn (Maize)

Fruit Trees

Legumes

Rhizobia Bacteria

Wheat

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