| Description |
1 online resource (1 PDF file (xvi, 205 pages)) : illustrations |
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monochrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Title from PDF title page. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Biotechnology offers tremendous potential for improving crop production, animal agriculture, and bioprocessing. It can provide scientists with new ways to develop higher-yielding and more nutritious crop varieties, to improve resistance to disease, or to reduce the need for inputs of fertilizers and other expensive agricultural chemicals. This book explores the United States' ability to solve important agricultural problems, effectively use funds and institutional structures to support biotechnology research for agriculture, train researchers in new scientific areas, efficiently transfer technology, and regulate and test recombinant DNA organisms in the field. |
| Funding |
Support for this project was provided by grants from the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and by contributions from the Foundation for Agronomic Research and the Richard Lounsbery Foundation. It also has received support from the National Research Council Fund, a pool of private, discretionary, nonfederal funds that is used to support a program of Academy-initiated studies of national issues in which science and technology figure significantly. The NRC Fund consists of contributions from a consortium of private foundations including the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; the Academy Industry Program, which seeks annual contributions from companies that are concerned with the health of U.S. science and technology and with public policy issues with technological content; and the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering endowments. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Agricultural biotechnology -- United States.
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Agricultural biotechnology. |
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United States. |
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Agricultural biotechnology -- Government policy -- United States.
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Agricultural biotechnology -- Government policy. |
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Agriculture -- Research -- United States.
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Agriculture -- Research. |
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Agriculture -- Research -- Government policy -- United States.
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Agriculture -- Research -- Government policy. |
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Agriculture -- methods. |
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Plants, Genetically Modified. |
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Crops, Agricultural. |
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Biotechnology. |
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Genetic Engineering -- methods. |
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United States. |
| Indexed Term |
Andre fag (naturvidenskab og teknik) Andre fag |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Technical reports.
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Technical reports.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on a National Strategy for Biotechnology in Agriculture. Agricultural biotechnology. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1987 030903745X (DLC) 87012181 (OCoLC)15661278 |
| ISBN |
058514253X |
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9780585142531 |
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9780309037457 |
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030903745X |
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