| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 461 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-446) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Crop improvement.
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Plant diversity.
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Transgenic plants.
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Crops -- Genetic engineering.
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Plants, Genetically Modified
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Crop improvement
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Crops -- Genetic engineering
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Plant diversity
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Transgenic plants
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ammann, Klaus.
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| LC no. |
2007020365 |
| ISBN |
9781421427768 |
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1421427761 |
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1421429136 |
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9781421429137 |
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