Word: hybridization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Davis, short for the University of California's department of oenology in the Yolo County city of that name. Davis is widely regarded as the world's most advanced wine research establishment; it has trained many of the state's vintners, revolutionized winemaking techniques, developed many hybrid vines suitable to American growing conditions and helped open up microclimates in areas traditionally considered inimical to serious viticulture...
...murderousness and mediocrity, the decade recorded numerous accomplishments although, typically, a lot of them went unnoticed in the undiscriminating cultural uproar. U.S. scientists enlarged the boundaries of knowledge in nuclear physics, biophysics, particle physics, biochemistry and electrooptics, among other fields. American plant biologists continued to develop the hybrid corn that remains one of this century's most important contributions to agriculture. Although the moon program was dismantled during the '70s, the two Vikings and two Voyagers probed Mars and Jupiter; now the Voyagers are proceeding to Saturn and then to even remoter reaches...