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9780763715861

Plants, Genes, and Crop Biotechnology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780763715861

  • ISBN10:

    0763715867

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-07-01
  • Publisher: Jones & Bartlett

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Summary

Plants, Genes, and Crop Biotechnology, Second Edition is ideally suited for a beginning course in a department of crop sciences to show how biotechnology is becoming part of agriculture and for an innovative course in plant biology where the instructor wants to deal with the societal issues that flow from agriculture (environmental concerns, GM crops, food sufficiency, etc). The types of courses for which this book is suitable go by many names because it is an interdisciplinary book. The course would typically be one quarter, semester or trimester and can be taught at any time during the year. Such courses can be found at 2-year and at 4-year institutions. At highly selective universities, this would be a first-or second-year course but at less selective universities it could come later in the curriculum. bull; bull;Biology of Plant Food Systems and the Environment bull;Advanced Crop Production bull;Plants, Genes, and Agriculture bull;Environmental, Food, and Society

Table of Contents

Human Population Growth: Lessons from Demography
1(21)
Agricultural R&D, Productivity, and Global Food Prospects
22(30)
Development, Productivity, and Sustainability of Crop Production
52(24)
Food Security: Why Do Hunger and Malnutrition Persist in a World of Plenty?
76(24)
Developing Food Production Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
100(24)
The Molecular Basis of Genetic Modification and Improvement of Crops
124(28)
Plants in Human Nutrition and Animal Feed
152(30)
The Genetic Basis of Growth and Development
182(30)
Seeds: Biology, Technology, and Role in Agriculture
212(28)
Converting Solar Energy into Crop Production
240(30)
Plant Nutrition and Crop Improvement in Adverse Soil Conditions
270(34)
Life Together in the Underground
304(24)
Ten Thousand Years of Crop Evolution
328(32)
Prom Classical Plant Breeding to Modern Crop Improvement
360(30)
Crop Diseases and Strategies for Their Control
390(24)
Strategies for Controlling Insect, Mite, and Nematode Pests
414(31)
Weeds and Weed Control Strategies
445(27)
Toward a Greener Agriculture
472(28)
Plants as Chemical and Pharmaceutical Factories
500(30)
Urban Myths and Real Concerns about Genetically Modified (GM) Crops
530(22)
Index 552

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