High Tech Harvest
Subtitle: Understanding Genetically Modified Food Plants
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: May 28, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780813339467
Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; Crop husbandry; Food & beverage technology; Genetic engineering; Transgenic plants; Plant Genetics; Plant Cell Biotechnology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Plant biotechnology; Biotechnology; Food Science; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Life Sciences - Botany; Life Sciences - Horticulture; Plant genetic engineering
First sentence: OUR PRESENT-DAY ABILITY TO MANIPULATE genes did not come overnight, as a great flash of creativity striking a sin savant.
Description: An on-the-ground research biologist tells a clear-eyed story of modern plant genetics, the human manipulation of biology, and the reality of genetically engineered plants worldwide. Annotation. Largely celebrating the use of biotechnology in agriculture, although at times critical of some of the most cynical machinations of the large biotech companies, Luquin (genetics, Washington State U.) presents a layman's introduction to the basic science and applications of the genetic modification of food crops. He begins with a basic explanation of DNA and genetics before exploring the science of biotechnology. In the final chapters he looks at the controversies and, mostly, dismisses the fears of biotechnology's critics.