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Plant breeding and biotechnology : societal context and the future of agriculture /
Up-to-date assessment of plant breeding and crop improvement; from its origins to present debates on genetically-modified food.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Using this book; Nomenclature and terminology; Measurements and dates; Initials and acronyms; Industrial and developing countries; Abbreviations and glossary; Introduction; Part I The science of plant breeding; 1 Origins of plant breeding; 2 Creating new genetic variation; 3 Modern high-tech breeding; Part II The societal context of plant breeding; 4 Rise of the public sector and the US pioneers; 5 Public sector breeding in the UK; 6 Breeding goes global: the Green Revolution and beyond.