Genetic Glass Ceilings Transgenics for Crop Biodiversity / Jonathan Gressel ; foreword by Klaus Ammann.
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TextPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Manufacturer: Project MUSE, Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 461 p.) : illISBN: 9781421427768Subject(s): Crop improvement | Plant diversity | Transgenic plants | Crops -- Genetic engineeringGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 631.5/233 LOC classification: SB123.57 | .G74 2008Online resources: Full text available: | Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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.
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