Plant breeding and biotechnology : societal context and the future of agriculture
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press ,
2007
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. I The science of plant breeding
- 1. Origins of plant breeding
- 2. Creating new genetic variation
- 3. Modern high-tech breeding
- Pt. II The societal context of plant breeding
- 4. Rise of the public sector and the US pioneers
- 5. Public sector breeding in the UK
- 6. Breeding goes global: the Green Revolution and beyond
- Pt. III Turmoil and transition: the legacy of the 1980s
- 7. Resurgence of the private sector
- 8. Emergence of a new crop improvement paradigm
- 9. Decline of the public sector
- 10. Reaping the consequences
- Pt. IV The agbiotech paradigm
- 11. Agbiotech: genes and dreams
- 12. The future of transgenic crops I: improving the technology
- 13. The future of transgenic crops II: improving the products
- Pt. V Increasing global crop production: the new challenges
- 14. Feeding the world - fallacies and realities
- 15. The roles of management, subsidies and breeding in crop improvement
- Pt. VI Plant breeding in the twenty-first century
- 16. The future of international plant breeding
- 17. Rebalancing our approach to crop improvement
- 18. Where do we go from here?
- 19. Conclusions and recommendations