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Plants, biotechnology and agriculture /
At a time when the world's food supplies are increasingly unable to meet the needs of a burgeoning population, there is significant diversity of opinion concerning the benefits and perceived dangers of the application of biotechnology to food production. This book provides the reader with a gui...
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| Formato: | Printed Book |
| Idioma: | English |
| Publicado em: |
Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Cambridge, MA :
CABI,
c2011.
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| coleção: | Modular texts.
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| LEADER | 01971cam a22002774a 4500 | ||
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| 008 | 110318s2011 enkab b 001 0 eng | ||
| 999 | |c 113311 |d 113311 | ||
| 020 | |a 9781845938710 ('cabi south asia' edition : alk. paper) | ||
| 082 | 0 | 0 | |a 631.5233 |2 22 |
| 100 | 1 | |a Murphy, Denis J. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Plants, biotechnology and agriculture / |c Denis Murphy. |
| 260 | |a Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; |a Cambridge, MA : |b CABI, |c c2011. | ||
| 300 | |a ix, 310 p. : |b ill., maps ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a Modular texts | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Plants and their genomes -- Plants and their exploitation by people -- Photosynthesis and the evolution of plants -- Plant molecular genetics and genomics -- How plants function -- Plant metabolism -- Plant organization and development -- Plant responses to the environment -- How plants are manipulated -- Domestication and the empirical exploitation of plants -- The scientific manipulation of plants -- Crop improvement in the 20th century -- Plants, society and the future -- Plant biotechnologies in the 21st century -- Social context of plant biotechnologies -- Future challenges for plant biotechnology. | |
| 520 | 0 | |a At a time when the world's food supplies are increasingly unable to meet the needs of a burgeoning population, there is significant diversity of opinion concerning the benefits and perceived dangers of the application of biotechnology to food production. This book provides the reader with a guide to plants as both organisms and resources. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Plants, Cultivated. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Agriculture. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Botany, Economic. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Plant biotechnology. | |
| 942 | |c BK | ||
| 830 | 0 | |a Modular texts. | |
| 906 | |a 7 |b cbc |c orignew |d 1 |e ecip |f 20 |g y-gencatlg | ||
| 955 | |a DNAL |a xh58 2012-01-13 CIP copy to DNAL | ||
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