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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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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Cambridge, MA :
CABI,
c2011.
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| Series: | Modular texts.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.