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Genetically modified planet : environmental impacts of genetically engineered plants / C. Neal Stewart, Jr.

By: Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004Description: viii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0195157451 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 631.5/233 22
LOC classification:
  • SB123.57 .S74 2004
Contents:
1. Introduction: "It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine..." -- 2. Crops and weeds: It is hard to be a wild thing when you're domesticated -- 3. Plant biotechnology: The magic of making GM plants -- 4. Gene flow: It's a weed, it's a transgene, it's superweed! -- 5. Contamination: Transgenes in Mexican corn? -- 6. Killer corn: Monarch butterfly exterminators? -- 7. Better living through biology: Not killing the good insects by accident -- 8. Bt resistance management: Getting off the treadmill -- 9. Swap meet from heck: Trading sequences between viruses and transgenes -- 10. Superweeds revisited: Tall stacks of transgenes and waffling gene flow -- 11. Green and Greener: Environmentalism, agriculture, and GM plants -- 12. Futurama: Greenetic engineering for a greener tomorrow -- 13. Conclusions: Out of right field and into home.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks SB123.57 .S74 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000724178

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236).

1. Introduction: "It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine..." -- 2. Crops and weeds: It is hard to be a wild thing when you're domesticated -- 3. Plant biotechnology: The magic of making GM plants -- 4. Gene flow: It's a weed, it's a transgene, it's superweed! -- 5. Contamination: Transgenes in Mexican corn? -- 6. Killer corn: Monarch butterfly exterminators? -- 7. Better living through biology: Not killing the good insects by accident -- 8. Bt resistance management: Getting off the treadmill -- 9. Swap meet from heck: Trading sequences between viruses and transgenes -- 10. Superweeds revisited: Tall stacks of transgenes and waffling gene flow -- 11. Green and Greener: Environmentalism, agriculture, and GM plants -- 12. Futurama: Greenetic engineering for a greener tomorrow -- 13. Conclusions: Out of right field and into home.

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