Genetically Modified Planet
Environmental Impacts of Genetically Engineered Plants
ISBN13: 9780195157451ISBN10: 0195157451
Hardback,
256 pages
Jul 2004,
In Stock
Price:
$45.00 (06)Table of Contents
1.
Introduction Catastrophic Calamities and Clucking Cacophonies
2.
Crops and Weeds I'ts 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 Green
etic Engineering for a Greener Tomorrow
13.
Conclusion
Out of Right Field and into Home
References
Index
