TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gressel,Jonathan
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Genetic Glass Ceilings: Transgenics for Crop Biodiversity 
SN  - 9781421427768
AV  - SB123.57 .G74 2008
U1  - 631.5/233 22
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Crop improvement
KW  - Plant diversity
KW  - Transgenic plants
KW  - Crops
KW  - Genetic engineering
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-446) and index; 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; Open Access
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/60335/
ER  -