AMER.AGRIC: Historical Perspectives on Exotic Pests and Diseases in California

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Name: Alan L. Olmstead
Email: alolmstead@ucdavis.edu
Institution: University of California - Davis

Co-author: Susana Iranzo (University of California -Davis), Paul W.
Rhode (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)

Title: Historical Perspectives on Exotic Pests and Diseases in California

Internet Address of abstracted work: http://aghistory.ucdavis.edu

By mail:
Institute of Governmental Affairs
University of California - Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis CA 95616 USA

Language: English

Abstract:
This historical account of a few key diseases and pests in the
formative years of California horticulture sheds light on the
unusually successful, innovative, and productive research and
outreach programs in the public and private sectors. For crop after
crop, farmers and scientists and government agencies overcame the
"free rider" problem to literally save large-scale commercial
agriculture.

Bibliography: Olmstead, Alan L. and Susana Iranzo. "Historical
Perspectives on Exotic Pests and Diseases in California ." University
of California - Davis, Agricultural History Center Working Paper 101
(September 2000).

Subject: A
Geographical Area: 7
Country/Region: California
Time Period: 8

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