2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.01.002
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The phytotronist and the phenotype: Plant physiology, Big Science, and a Cold War biology of the whole plant

Abstract: This paper describes how, from the early twentieth century, and especially in the early Cold War era, the plant physiologists considered their discipline ideally suited among all the plant sciences to study and explain biological functions and processes, and ranked their discipline among the dominant forms of the biological sciences. At their apex in the late-1960s, the plant physiologists laid claim to having discovered nothing less than the "basic laws of physiology." This paper unwraps that claim, showing t… Show more

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