Genetic Information in Agricultural Productivity and Product Development
探讨精准育种技术和信息投入如何互补，扩大加工产品种类、提高生产率及变化速度，并分析遗传一致性如何通过过程实验加速学习和技术变革。
Two prominent features of recent changes in agriculture have been the advent of precision breeding techniques and an increase in the level of information netputs in production. This article identifies ways in which these features may complement in expanding the variety of processed products, level of productivity, and rate of change in productivity. Using a martingale concept of information, we identify conditions under which information increases the incentives to invest and engage in product differentiation activities. A theory on how genetic uniformity can enhance the rate of learning through process experimentation, and so the rate of technical change, is developed. Copyright 2004, Oxford University Press.