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Author:   Jonathan Gressel (Professor Emeritus, Weizmann Institute of Science)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.794kg
ISBN:  

9780801887192

ISBN 10:   0801887194
Pages:   488
Publication Date:   09 May 2008
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Klaus Ammann: The Needs for Plant Biodiversity: The General Case Preface 1. Why Crop Biodiversity? 2. Domestication: Reaching a Glass Ceiling 3. Transgenic Tools for Regaining Biodiversity: Breaching the Ceiling 4. Biosafety Considerations with Further Domesticated Crops 5. Introduction to Case Studies: Where the Ceiling Needs to be Breached 6. Evil Weevils or Us: Who Gets to Eat the Grain? 7. Kwashiorkor, Diseases, and Cancer: Needed: Food without Mycotoxins 8. Emergency Engineering of Standing Forage Crops to Contain Pandemics—Transient Redomestication 9. Meat and Fuel from Straw 10. Papaya: Saved by Transgenics 11. Palm Olive Oils: Healthier Palm Oil 12. Rice: A Major Crop Undergoing Continual Transgenic Further Domestication 13. Tef: The Crop for Dry Extremes 14. Buckwheat: The Crop for Poor Cold Extremes 15. Should Sorghum Be a Crop for the Birds and the Witches? 16. Oilseed Rape: Unfinished Domestication 17. Reinventing Safflower 18. Swollen Necks from Fonio Millet and Pearl Millet 19. Grass Pea: Take This Poison 20. Limits to Domestication: Dioscorea deltoidea 21. Tomato: Bring Back Flavr Savr: Conceptually 22. Orchids: Sustaining Beauty 23. Olives: and Other Allergenic, Messy Landscaping Species Epilogue References Index

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Everyone who wants to learn and understand more about plant breeding and agricultural biotechnology should read Jonathan Gressel's book. Its wealth of erudition and wisdom makes it worthy of recognition as a modern classic. -- Drew L. Kershen, Journal of Commercial Biotechnology

<p>A valuable reference for all interested in the role of TGVs [transgenetic crops] in the future of food and agriculture.--David A. Cleveland Economic Botany (01/01/2009)

<p>This book would serve as a good basis for a serious course in agronomy departments around the world.--Lawrence Davis Plant Science Bulletin (01/01/2009)

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Jonathan Gressel is professor emeritus of plant sciences at Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

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