Genetic Glass Ceilings : Transgenics for Crop Biodiversity /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gressel, Jonathan
Otros Autores: Ammann, Klaus
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Transgenic plants.
Plant diversity.
Crops > Genetic engineering.
Crop improvement.
Cultures > Genie genetique.
Plantes transgeniques.
Diversite vegetale.
Cultures > Amelioration.
Plants, Genetically Modified
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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