Gressel, Jonathan. <br/><br/>
Genetic Glass Ceilings  Transgenics for Crop Biodiversity / 
Jonathan Gressel ; foreword by Klaus Ammann. 
 - 1 online resource (xviii, 461 p.) :   ill. ; 
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<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-446) and index. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781421427768 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Crop improvement.<br/>Plant diversity.<br/>Transgenic plants.<br/>Crops--Genetic engineering.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>SB123.57  / .G74 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>631.5/233