agriculture

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

79 entities tagged with "agriculture"

Citations (1)

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

Definitions (1)

monoculture

Inventions (72)

Domestication of rice

Domestication of sheep

Tobacco

Hoe

Domestication of goats

Sickle

Domestication of millet

Domestication of wheat

Domestication of pigs (Near East)

Quern-stone

Domestication of barley

Domestication of cattle

Domestication of potatoes

Domestication of maize

Beekeeping

Domestication of soybeans

Domestication of flax

Ard plough

Irrigation

Domestication of chickens

Domestication of pigs (China)

Cotton (New World)

Cotton (Old World)

Scythe

Threshing board

Paddy field

Domestication of sugarcane

Opium poppy cultivation

Domestication of cacao trees

Shaduf

Sericulture

Domestication of pigeons

Grafting

Domestication of citrus fruit

Domestication of coconuts

Seed drill

Domestication of cucumbers

Three-field crop rotation

Animal-driven rotary mill

Multi-tube seed drill

Greenhouse

Mould-board plough

Carruca

Chinampa

Domestication of vanilla

Seaweed farming

Heated greenhouse

Orangery

Horse-drawn seed drill

Sugar beet

Threshing machine

Grain cradle

Reaping machine

Lawn mower

Combine harvester

Steel plough

Portable engine

Vanilla hand-pollination

Superphosphate

Grain elevator

Traction engine

Anthrax vaccine

Tractor

Haber process

Continuous track tractor

Three-point hitch

DDT insecticide

Glyphosate

Automatic milking system

Herbicide-resistant GMO

Golden rice

In-ovo sexing

Organisms (5)

Corn (Maize)

Fruit Trees

Legumes

Rhizobia Bacteria

Wheat

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