The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world (31 page)

McDonald’s:

influence on potato farmers of

use of NewLeaf potatoes by

Mechoulam, Raphael

Mellon, Margaret

memes, and cultural evolution

memory:

as defense against experience

effects of cannabinoids on

see also
forgetting, psychological importance of

Mère Brune tulip

mescaline

see also
peyote

Mexico, as cannabis source

milkweed

Mohican River

Monitor (pesticide)

monoculture

Monsanto corporation

Monsanto corporation (
cont’d
):

see also
genetic engineering; NewLeaf potatoes

Morgan, John

Mount Vernon (Ohio)

Muskingum River

mutation

Mysteries of Eleusis

Myzus persicae

Nation, Carry

Native Americans:

and hallucinogens

maple syrup use by

in Northwest Territory

see also
Eskimos; Incas

natural selection

see also
sexual selection

nature:

duality of

human relationship to

in Judeo-Christian tradition

Nepeta cataria

net necrosis

Netherlands:
see
Amsterdam; Holland

NewLeaf potato:

in author’s garden

commercial farming of

as genetically modified crop

safety questions about

Newtown Pippin

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Northwest Territory

see also
Indiana; Ohio

nutritional value, as criterion for selection

oak trees, resistance to domestication of

Ohio River

Ohio (state):

Chapman in

as nineteenth-century American frontier

see also
Brilliant (Ohio); Defiance (Ohio); Mansfield (Ohio); Marietta (Ohio); Mount Vernon (Ohio); Northwest Territory

“Old Man of the Mountain”

On Drugs
(Lenson)

opiates:

cultural roles of

and endorphine system

opium:

effects of

as medicine

poppies

orchids:

breeding of

Orphyrus or prostitute

organic farming

Origin of Species, The
(Darwin)

Papaver somniferum

Paracelsus

paraquat

patents, for plant genes

pattern, as beauty principle

Pauw, Adriaen

Pavord, Anna

Pennsylvania, western

peonies:

beauty of

breeding of

Dionysian quality of

pollination of

symbolism of

Peru:

potatoes from

quinine discovery in

see also
Andes; Incas

pesticides

see also Bacillus thuringiensis
(Bt); DDT; insecticides

pests:

coevolution with plants of

genetic resistance to

human efforts to control

and plant toxins

see also
aphids; Colorado potato beetle; insects; monoculture; pesticides; potato blight

peyote

photosynthesis

Phytophthora infestans

Pinker, Steven

pitcher plants

Pizarro, Francisco

Plant, Sadie

Plant Genetic Resources Unit (Geneva, N.Y.)

plants:

biochemistry in

domestication of

evolution of

forbidden

and human spirituality

as pharmaceuticals

powers of attraction

propagation of

psychoactive powers of

toxins in

see also
angiosperms; apples; cannabis; coevolution; flowers; genetic engineering; grafting; pests; photosynthesis; pollination; potatoes; tulips; vegetables

Plato

pleasure, human desire for:
see
beauty; control; intoxication; sweetness

Pliny

Plutarch

poisons:
see
toxins

Pollan, Isaac

pollination:

of cannabis

and coevolution

and genetically altered plants

insects’ roles in

of peonies

pollution, biological

Polo, Marco

poppies, opium

pot:
see
cannabis

potato famine

“Potato in the Materialist Imagination, The” (Gallagher)

potatoes:

biodiversity of

coevolution with people of

diseases of

English debate over

in Europe

flowers of

genetic engineering of

harvesting of

and human desire for control

in Ireland

nutritional value of

see also
Garnet Chile; Lumper; NewLeaf; Russet Burbank; Yukon Gold

Potter, Beatrix

Price, Robert

Prohibition

Putnam, Rufus

Queen of Night tulip

quinine

Raleigh, Walter

Reagan administration

Red Delicious:

as commercial apple parent

flavor of

original tree

“reefer madness”

religions, and psychoactive plants

Rembrandt tulips

reptiles

Ricardo, David

Rig Veda

Romans, apple cultivation by

romanticism, and opium use

Rosa chinensis

roses:

breeding of

Dionysian quality of

pollination of

symbolism of

Roundup Ready gene

Russet Burbank potato

Russia, potatoes in

Sabbah, Hassan ibn al

sacraments, plants as

Sagan, Carl

Salaman, Redcliffe

Scarry, Elaine

Schama, Simon

Schivelbusch, Wolfgang

Schumpeter, Joseph

Scythians

Sea of Green

seeds:

of apples

genetic engineering of

sowing of

of tulips

selection:
see
artificial selection; natural selection; sexual selection

Selfish Gene, The
(Dawkins)

Semper Augustus tulip

senses:

effects of chemical compounds on

intensification of

see also
intoxication; transcendence

sexual selection

Siegel, Ronald K.

sinsemilla

see also
cannabis

Smith, Adam

soil, fertility of

Solanum tuberosum

see also
potatoes

Soma (religious cult)

South America:

hallucinogens in

potatoes in (
see also
Peru)

species, genetic integrity of

Stalin, Joseph

Starck, Dave

Stark, C. M.

Stark, Paul

Stevens, Wallace

“substantial equivalence” notion

sugar:

effect on children of