Genetically modified planet : environmental impacts of genetically engineered plants / C. Neal Stewart, Jr.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004Description: viii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0195157451 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 631.5/233 22
- SB123.57 .S74 2004
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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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