William J. Spillman Y El Redescubrimiento De Las Leyes Mendelianas En El Contexto Norteamericano

Francisco Javier Serrano-Bosquet; Eva Rivas Sada

Autores/as

Francisco Javier Serrano-Bosquet
Eva Rivas Sada

Resumen

En la literatura especializada suele mencionarse a de Vries, Tschermak y Correns como los descubridores de las leyes de Mendel sobre la transmisión por herencia genética de las características de los organismos padres a hijos. Ahora bien, en las lejanas costas noroccidentales de los Estados Unidos un joven agrónomo llamado William J. Spillman llegó a los mismos resultados y en similares fechas de manera independiente. Si bien los trabajos hasta ahora publicados en torno a la figura y el trabajo de Spillman se han centrado principalmente en sus aspectos y aportaciones netamente científicas o, en su contribución al nacimiento de la economía agrícola, este trabajo demuestra que la importancia y evaluación de dichos trabajos debe llevarse a cabo desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar. Es decir, a partir de un abordaje interdisciplinario en el que se combinan las visiones científica, tecnológica económica, cultural y divulgativa, va mostrando cómo las investigaciones científicas de Spillman y sus resultados, trascendieron a las esferas política y económica, abriendo la posibilidad de expandir exitosamente cultivos básicos en diversos ecosiste- mas norteamericanos y se tornaron, finalmente, en clave del inmediato viraje que la política agrícola del gobierno federal vivió.

Palabras clave: Agricultura científica, Estados Unidos, Mendel,
trigo, variedades, William J. Spillman.

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