First Fruit
Subtitle: The Creation of the Flavr Savr Tomato and the Birth of Biotech Foods
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: March 27, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780071360562
Subjects: Bio-ethics; Food manufacturing & related industries; Genetic Engineering; Popular science; Transgenic plants; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Agricultural Biotechnology; Technology; Science; Tomatoes; Science/Mathematics; Biotechnology; Food Science; Agriculture - General; Genetically modified foods
First sentence: In early 1988 the word's first genetically engineered whole food, the Flavr Sarv tomato (or, rather, its prototype), was-literally and figuratively-barely alive.