Genetic Glass Ceilings : Transgenics for Crop Biodiversity / / Jonathan Gressel ; foreword by Klaus Ammann.
As the world’s population rises to an expected ten billion in the next few generations, the challenges of feeding humanity and maintaining an ecological balance will dramatically increase. Today we rely on just four crops for 80 percent of all consumed calories: wheat, rice, corn, and soybeans. Inde...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2008. ©2008. |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 461 p. :); ill. ; |
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Table of Contents:
- 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 redomestication
- Meat and fuel from straw
- Papaya : saved by transgenics
- Palm olive oils : 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 Flavr Savr: conceptually
- Orchids : sustaining beauty
- Olives : and other allergenic, messy landscaping species.