Genetic Glass Ceilings : Transgenics for Crop Biodiversity /

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Main Author: Gressel, Jonathan
Other Authors: Ammann, Klaus
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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245 1 0 |a Genetic Glass Ceilings :   |b Transgenics for Crop Biodiversity /   |c Jonathan Gressel ; foreword by Klaus Ammann. 
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505 0 |a Why crop biodiversity? -- Domestication : reaching a glass ceiling -- Transgenic tools for regaining biodiversity : breaching the ceiling -- Biosafety considerations with further domesticated crops -- Introduction to case studies : where the ceiling needs to be breached -- Evil weevils or us : who gets to eat the grain? -- Kwashiorkor, diseases, and cancer : needed: food without mycotoxins -- Emergency engineering of standing forage crops to contain pandemics -- transient redomestication -- Meat and fuel from straw -- Papaya : saved by transgenics -- Palm olive oils : healthier palm oil -- Rice : a major crop undergoing continual transgenic further domestication -- Tef : the crop for dry extremes -- Buckwheat : the crop for poor cold extremes -- Should sorghum be a crop for the birds and the witches? -- Oilseed rape : unfinished domestication -- Reinventing safflower -- Swollen necks from fonio millet and pearl millet -- Grass pea : take this poison -- Limits to domestication : dioscorea deltoidea -- Tomato : bring back Flavr Savr: conceptually -- Orchids : sustaining beauty -- Olives : and other allergenic, messy landscaping species. 
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650 7 |a Transgenic plants.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01154677 
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650 7 |a Crops  |x Genetic engineering.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00884007 
650 7 |a Crop improvement.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00883912 
650 6 |a Cultures  |x Genie genetique. 
650 6 |a Plantes transgeniques. 
650 6 |a Diversite vegetale. 
650 6 |a Cultures  |x Amelioration. 
650 2 |a Plants, Genetically Modified 
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