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020 _a9781421427768
020 _z9780801887192 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 _z0801887194 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 _z9781421429137
035 _a(OCoLC)1048228453
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 4 _aSB123.57
_b.G74 2008
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100 1 _aGressel, Jonathan.
245 1 0 _aGenetic Glass Ceilings
_bTransgenics for Crop Biodiversity /
_cJonathan Gressel ; foreword by Klaus Ammann.
264 1 _bJohns Hopkins University Press,
264 3 _bProject MUSE,
300 _a1 online resource (xviii, 461 p.) :
_bill. ;
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [387]-446) and index.
505 0 _aWhy 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.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aCrop improvement.
650 0 _aPlant diversity.
650 0 _aTransgenic plants.
650 0 _aCrops
_xGenetic engineering.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/60335/
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