Genetic glass ceilings
Subtitle: transgenics for crop biodiversity
By: Jonathan Gressel ; foreword by Klaus Ammann.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
ISBN-13: 9780801887192
Subjects: Crops -- Genetic engineering; Transgenic plants; Plant diversity; Crop improvement
Other titles: Transgenics for crop biodiversity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-446) and index.
Table of contents: title: Why crop biodiversity?; title: Domestication : reaching a glass ceiling; title: Transgenic tools for regaining biodiversity : breaching the ceiling; title: Biosafety considerations with further domesticated crops; title: Introduction to case studies : where the ceiling needs to be breached; title: Evil weevils or us : who gets to eat the grain?; title: Kwashiorkor, diseases, and cancer : needed: food without mycotoxins; title: Emergency engineering of standing forage crops to contain pandemics-transient redomestication; title: Meat and fuel from straw; title: Papaya : saved by transgenics; title: Palm olive oils : healthier palm oil; title: Rice : a major crop undergoing continual transgenic further domestication; title: Tef : the crop for dry extremes; title: Buckwheat : the crop for poor cold extremes; title: Should sorghum be a crop for the birds and the witches?; title: Oilseed rape : unfinished domestication; title: Reinventing safflower; title: Swollen necks from fonio millet and pearl millet; title: Grass pea : take this poison; title: Limits to domestication : dioscorea deltoidea; title: Tomato : bring back Flavr Savr: conceptually; title: Orchids : sustaining beauty; title: Olives : and other allergenic, messy landscaping species.