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The Gene Hunters : Biotechnology and the Scramble for Seeds.
The world is on the verge of receiving new life forms that will profoundly and irrevocably change the global economy: the ""gene hunters"" who first cloned the gene in 1973 are now not only modifying existing species but also creating new plants and animals. Ready or not for such...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; Glossary ; Introduction; 1 Genetic Resources and Socio-economic Evolution; Epistemology and environmental expansionism; Genetic sources of social change; Crisis and adaptation in Africa; Divergent interpretations; 2 Explorations in Historical Botany; Early plant hunters; Institutional and technological innovation; Genetic resources and the British Empire; US historical botany; 3 Genetic Resources and World Agriculture; Japanese antecedents; Plant breeding and the seed industry; Gene banks and food security; The changing economy of nature.
- 4. Branching Points in BiotechnologyBiotechnology industry; Institutional issues; Risk, time and regulation; The last harvest?; 5. Life as Intellectual Property; Patents and innovation; Plant breeders' rights; Patenting life forms; Seed wars; 6. Germplasm and Kenya's Agriculture: A Case Study; Plant introductions; Colonial law and genetic resources; Conservation in modern Kenya; Kenya and the global gene banks; 7. The Way Ahead: Policy Options for Africa; Evolution of economic systems; Science and technology policy; Genetic resources and biotechnology; Agricultural conversion.
- Institutional innovationConclusions and Conjectures; Appendix: Institutions Conserving Genetic Resources; Bibliography; Index.