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catalog contributor b12860550.
catalog created "2003.".
catalog date "2003".
catalog date "2003.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
catalog description "Impacts on the Third World -- Transgenic crops & the world's hungry ; Transgenic crops : chemical dependency or sustainable agriculture? ; Economic impacts -- Prospects for genetically modified food -- Who benefits? ; Perceived risks & benefits ; Battle for hearts & minds.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-202) and index.".
catalog description "Insect-resistant crops & a modified insect baculovirus -- Bacillus thuringiensis toxin ; Ciba-Geigy's B.t. maize ; Protease inhibitors & lectins ; Pyramiding genes ; Benefits for insect control ; Resistance management ; Baculovirus : engineering a quicker kill -- Designer food & engineered plants -- Modifications for food processing & taste ; Oilseed composition ; Protein content ; Viral resistance ; Fungal resistance ; Nematode resistance ; Photosynthesis & nitrogen fixation ; Tolerance to high salinity & other poor soil conditions ; Tolerance to drought conditions ; Tolerance to frost : ice minus bacteria & antifreeze proteins ; Drugs & vaccines ; Engineering cotton : blue jeans & plastic plants -- Ecological risks -- Risk assessment ; Risks posed by transgenic microorganisms ; Risks posed by virus-resistant crops ; Risk of invasion & adverse effects on other organisms ; Risk of transgene spread -- Risks to human health -- Allergens ; Antibiotic-resistant micro-organisms -- ".
catalog description "Introduction -- Brief history of genetic improvement in agriculture -- Artificial selection ; Laws of inheritance ; Green Revolution ; Plant breeding & genetic engineering ; Scale of transgenic plant releases to the environment ; Biotechnology : transgenic bacteria & fungi ; Genetic modifications to animals & fish -- What is genetic engineering? -- DNA ; Protein synthesis ; Jumping genes ; Enzymes : the genetic engineer's toolkit ; Methods of gene transfer to crop plants ; Viral vectors & gene regulation ; Bacterial vectors : the Agrobacterium method ; Gene guns ; Gene silencing ; Plant tissue culture ; Marker genes ; Gene libraries -- Milking it : increasing yields & the pharming of proteins -- Recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST) ; Pharming of transgenic animals ; Dolly the sheep & animal cloning -- Herbicide-resistant crops -- Advantages for weed control ; Achieving herbicide resistance ; Monsanto's Roundup Ready TM crops ; Environmental considerations -- ".
catalog description "Some ethical & moral issues -- Ethically sensitive genes ; Animal welfare ; Is DNA life? -- Lucrative art of patenting -- Patenting plants ; Species-wide patents ; Interfirm cooperation agreements ; Gene-licensing agreements ; Decline of independent seed companies ; GATT and the MAIs : free trade & global rights for multinationals ; Intellectual property rights & genetic resources from the Third World --Regulation of genetically modified organisms & food products -- Regulatory framework in the USA ; Regulatory framework in the UK -- Marketing approval for genetically modified food in Europe -- Decision-making in the European Community ; Monsanto's Roundup Ready TM soybeans ; Ciba-Geigy's B.t. maize ; New wave of crops -- Consuming question of labelling -- Lessons from irradiated foods ; Case against mandatory labelling : the food is no different ; Case for mandatory labelling : the consumer's right to choose ; Europe decides ; Negative labelling & organic food -- ".
catalog extent "xxx, 212 p. :".
catalog hasFormat "Eat your genes.".
catalog identifier "1842773461 (cased)".
catalog identifier "184277347X (limp)".
catalog isFormatOf "Eat your genes.".
catalog issued "2003".
catalog issued "2003.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA excluseively by Palgrave,".
catalog relation "Eat your genes.".
catalog subject "363.19/2 21".
catalog subject "Crops Genetic engineering.".
catalog subject "Food Biotechnology.".
catalog subject "Genetically modified foods.".
catalog subject "TP248.65.F66 N67 2003".
catalog tableOfContents "Impacts on the Third World -- Transgenic crops & the world's hungry ; Transgenic crops : chemical dependency or sustainable agriculture? ; Economic impacts -- Prospects for genetically modified food -- Who benefits? ; Perceived risks & benefits ; Battle for hearts & minds.".
catalog tableOfContents "Insect-resistant crops & a modified insect baculovirus -- Bacillus thuringiensis toxin ; Ciba-Geigy's B.t. maize ; Protease inhibitors & lectins ; Pyramiding genes ; Benefits for insect control ; Resistance management ; Baculovirus : engineering a quicker kill -- Designer food & engineered plants -- Modifications for food processing & taste ; Oilseed composition ; Protein content ; Viral resistance ; Fungal resistance ; Nematode resistance ; Photosynthesis & nitrogen fixation ; Tolerance to high salinity & other poor soil conditions ; Tolerance to drought conditions ; Tolerance to frost : ice minus bacteria & antifreeze proteins ; Drugs & vaccines ; Engineering cotton : blue jeans & plastic plants -- Ecological risks -- Risk assessment ; Risks posed by transgenic microorganisms ; Risks posed by virus-resistant crops ; Risk of invasion & adverse effects on other organisms ; Risk of transgene spread -- Risks to human health -- Allergens ; Antibiotic-resistant micro-organisms -- ".
catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Brief history of genetic improvement in agriculture -- Artificial selection ; Laws of inheritance ; Green Revolution ; Plant breeding & genetic engineering ; Scale of transgenic plant releases to the environment ; Biotechnology : transgenic bacteria & fungi ; Genetic modifications to animals & fish -- What is genetic engineering? -- DNA ; Protein synthesis ; Jumping genes ; Enzymes : the genetic engineer's toolkit ; Methods of gene transfer to crop plants ; Viral vectors & gene regulation ; Bacterial vectors : the Agrobacterium method ; Gene guns ; Gene silencing ; Plant tissue culture ; Marker genes ; Gene libraries -- Milking it : increasing yields & the pharming of proteins -- Recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST) ; Pharming of transgenic animals ; Dolly the sheep & animal cloning -- Herbicide-resistant crops -- Advantages for weed control ; Achieving herbicide resistance ; Monsanto's Roundup Ready TM crops ; Environmental considerations -- ".
catalog tableOfContents "Some ethical & moral issues -- Ethically sensitive genes ; Animal welfare ; Is DNA life? -- Lucrative art of patenting -- Patenting plants ; Species-wide patents ; Interfirm cooperation agreements ; Gene-licensing agreements ; Decline of independent seed companies ; GATT and the MAIs : free trade & global rights for multinationals ; Intellectual property rights & genetic resources from the Third World --Regulation of genetically modified organisms & food products -- Regulatory framework in the USA ; Regulatory framework in the UK -- Marketing approval for genetically modified food in Europe -- Decision-making in the European Community ; Monsanto's Roundup Ready TM soybeans ; Ciba-Geigy's B.t. maize ; New wave of crops -- Consuming question of labelling -- Lessons from irradiated foods ; Case against mandatory labelling : the food is no different ; Case for mandatory labelling : the consumer's right to choose ; Europe decides ; Negative labelling & organic food -- ".
catalog title "Eat your genes : how genetically modified food is entering our diet / Stephen Nottingham.".
catalog type "text".