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Foreword: The Needs for Plant Biodiversity: The General Case Klaus Ammann ix
Preface xvii
Why Crop Biodversity? 1
Domestication: Reaching a Glass Ceiling 8
Transgenic Tools for Regaining Biodiversity: Breaching the Ceiling 42
Biosafety Considerations with Further Domesticated Crops 73
Introduction to Case Studies: Where the Ceiling Needs to be Breached 138
Evil Weevils or Us: Who Gets to Eat the Grain? 150
Kwashiorkor, Diseases, and Cancer: Needed: Food without Mycotoxins 161
Emergency Engineering of Standing Forage Crops to Contain Pandemics-Transient Redomestication 173
Meat and Fuel from Straw 178
Papaya: Saved by Transgenics 198
Palm Olive Oils: Healthier Palm Oil 202
Rice: A Major Crop Undergoing Continual Transgenic Further Domestication 219
Tef: The Crop for Dry Extremes 241
Buckwheat: The Crop for Poor Cold Extremes 257
Should Sorghum Be a Crop for the Birds and the Witches? 272
Oilseed Rape: Unfinished Domestication 300
Reinventing Safflower 316
Swollen Necks from Fonio Millet and Pearl Millet 325
Grass Pea: Take This Poison 332
Limits to Domestication: Dioscorea deltoidea 351
Tomato: Bring Back Flavr Savr: Conceptually 357
Orchids: Sustaining Beauty 366
Olives: and Other Allergenic, Messy Landscaping Species 374
Epilogue 382
References 387
Index 447
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Burney Hollis
reviewed Genetic Glass Ceilings: Transgenics for Crop Biodiversity on September 02, 2012
Genetic Glass Ceilings: Transgenics for Crop Biodiversity
A bit technical for people who do not know much about this subject, but very good overview of what is happening to our food
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