Farmers, Gene Banks and Crop Breeding: Economic Analyses of Diversity in Wheat, Maize, and Rice responds to concerns about the loss of valuable genetic resources and crop vulnerability arising from widespread cultivation of genetically uniform varieties. It assembles a series of…
Das Institut für Kulturpflanzenforschung wurde von der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft noch in den letzten Jahren des 2. Weltkrieges in Wien gegründet. Nach dem Krieg wurde es am nordöstlichen Harzrand in Gatersleben auf- und zu einem großen Forschungszentrum für Genetik und Kulturp…
This book is divided into two parts. Part 1 deals with the evolutionary processes, describing the chromosome structure, genetic variation, multifactorial genome, polyploidy, gene duplication and speciation. Part 2 deals with the origins of agriculture and the dynamics of plant d…
This book is divided into two parts. Part 1 deals with the evolutionary processes, describing the chromosome structure, genetic variation, multifactorial genome, polyploidy, gene duplication and speciation. Part 2 deals with the origins of agriculture and the dynamics of plant d…
Sind gentechnisch veränderte Pflanzen eine Zukunftsperspektive? Lösen sie die Ernährungsprobleme der Menschheit? Aktuell und kompetent geben die Autoren in diesem Lehrbuch einen Überblick über die Chancen und Risiken der pflanzlichen Gentechnik: Grundlegende Methoden, moderne Ve…
Introduces readers to eco-warriors such as Greenpeace and corporate giants such as Monsanto, discussing the new agricultural revolution of genetically engineered food and how it will affect the food supply and the world hunger epidemic.
For most people, the global war over genetically modified foods is a distant and confusing one. The battles are conducted in the mystifying language of genetics. A handful of corporate "life science" giants, such as Monsanto, are pitted against a worldwide network of anticorpora…