First Fruit
Subtitle: The Creation of the Flavr Savr Tomato and the Birth of Biotech Food
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: July 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780071400275
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; Food & beverage technology; Genetic engineering; Popular science; Technology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Biotechnology; Food Science; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Agriculture - General
First sentence: In early 1988 the world's first genetically engineered whole food, the Flavr Savr tomato (or, rather, its prototype), was-literally and figuratively-barely alive.