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Genetic glass ceilings : transgenics for crop biodiversity
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Genetic glass ceilings : transgenics for crop biodiversity

Jonathan Gressel

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Why crop biodiversity?
Domestication-reaching a glass ceiling
Transgenic tools for regaining biodiversity-breaching the ceiling
Biosafety considerations with further domesticated crops
Introduction to case studies: where the ceiling needs to be breached
Evil weevils or us: who gets to eat the grain?
Kwashiorkor, diseases and cancer-needed: food without mycotoxins
Emergency engineering of standing forage crops to contain pandemics-transient
Re-domestication
Meat and fuel from straw
Papaya-saved by transgenics
Palm olive oil, healthier palm oil
Rice: a major crop undergoing continual transgenic further domestication
Tef: the crop for dry extremes
Buckwheat: the crop for poor cold extremes
Should sorghum be a crop for the birds and the witches?
Oilseed rape-unfinished domestication
Reinventing safflower
Swollen necks from fonio millet and pearl millet
Grass pea: take this poison
Limits to domestication-dioscorea deltoidea
Tomato-bring back flavrsavrtm-conceptually
Orchids-sustaining beauty
Olives-and other allergenic, messy landscaping species.

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Genetic glass ceilings : transgenics for crop biodiversity by Jonathan Gressel. ISBN 9780801887192. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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