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  • Intellectual property, plant breeding and the making of Mendelian genetics

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    Author(s)
    Charnley, Berris
    Radick, Gregory
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    Charnley, Berris
    Year published
    2013
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    Advocates of ''Mendelism'' early on stressed the usefulness of Mendelian principles for breeders. Ever since, that usefulness-and the favourable opinion of Mendelism it supposedly engendered among breed- ers-has featured in explanations of the rapid rise of Mendelian genetics. An important counter-tradition of commentary, however, has emphasized the ways in which early Mendelian theory in fact fell short of breeders' needs. Attention to intellectual property, narrowly and broadly construed, makes possible an approach that takes both the tradition and the counter-tradition seriously, by enabling a more complete description ...
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    Advocates of ''Mendelism'' early on stressed the usefulness of Mendelian principles for breeders. Ever since, that usefulness-and the favourable opinion of Mendelism it supposedly engendered among breed- ers-has featured in explanations of the rapid rise of Mendelian genetics. An important counter-tradition of commentary, however, has emphasized the ways in which early Mendelian theory in fact fell short of breeders' needs. Attention to intellectual property, narrowly and broadly construed, makes possible an approach that takes both the tradition and the counter-tradition seriously, by enabling a more complete description of the theory-reality shortfall and a better understanding of how changing practices, on and off the Mendelians' experimental farms, functioned to render that shortfall unproblematic. In the case of plant breeding in Britain, a perennial source of lost profits and disputes over ownership was the appear- ance of individual plants departing from their varietal types-so-called ''rogues.'' Mendelian plant varie- ties acquired a reputation for being rogue-free, and so for demonstrating the correctness of Mendelian principles (and the genius of Gregor Mendel), at a time when Mendelians were gradually taking control of the means for distributing their varieties. Mendelian breeders protected their products physically from rogue-in ducing contamination in such a way that when rogues did appear, the default explanation-that ???contami nation had somehow occurred-ensured that there was no threat to Mendelian principles.
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    Journal Title
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
    Volume
    44
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2012.11.004
    Copyright Statement
    © 2013 Elsevier Inc. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Intellectual Property Law
    Historical Studies
    History and Philosophy of Specific Fields
    Philosophy
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/58004
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