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Natural Defense : Enlisting Bugs and Germs to Protect Our Food and Health.

"For more than a century, we have relied on chemical cures to keep our bodies free from disease and our farms free from bugs and weeds. We rarely consider human and agricultural health together, but both are based on the same ecology, and both are being threatened by organisms that have evolved...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Monosson, Emily
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Francisco : Island Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Front Cover ; About Island Press ; Subscribe ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; Chapter 1. Natural Allies: Our Bacterial Protectors ; Chapter 2. Natural Allies: Microbial Farmhands ; Chapter 3. The Enemy of Our Enemy Is Our Friend: Infecting the Infection ; Chapter 4. The Enemy of Our Enemy is Our Friend: Replacing Pesticides with Nature's Chemistry ; Chapter 5. Provocation: Disease-Resistant GMOs ; Chapter 6. Provocation: The Next Generation of Vaccines? ; Chapter 7. Know Thine Enemy: Images of Disease. 
505 8 |a Chapter 8. Know Thine Enemy: The Future of Diagnostics Epilogue ; Notes ; Index ; IP Board of Directors. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
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