Genetic Glass Ceilings : Transgenics for Crop Biodiversity /
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2008.
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- 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.