| Description |
viii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236). |
| Contents |
Introduction : catastrophic calamities and clucking cacophonies -- Crops and weeds : it's hard to be a wild thing when you're domesticated -- Plant biotechnology : the magic of making GM plants -- Gene flow : it's a weed, it's a transgene, it's Superweed! -- Contamination : transgenes in Mexican corn? -- Killer corn : monarch butterfly exterminators? -- Better living through biology : not killing the good insects by accident -- Bt resistance management : getting off the treadmill -- Swap meet from heck : trading sequences between viruses and transgenes -- Superweeds revisited : tall stacks of transgenes and waffling gene flow -- Green and Greener : environmentalism, agriculture, and GM plants -- Futurama : Greenetic engineering for a greener tomorrow -- Conclusion : out of right field and into home. |
| Subject |
Transgenic plants.
|
|
Transgenic plants. |
|
Plant genetic engineering.
|
|
Plant genetic engineering. |
|
Transgenic plants -- Ecology.
|
|
Ecology. |
|
Plant genetic engineering -- Environmental aspects.
|
|
Plant genetic engineering -- Environmental aspects. |
| ISBN |
0195157451 cloth alkaline paper |
|
