Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/009338622/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 25 of
25
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""In Dangerous Liaisons? geneticist Norman C. Ellstrand examines these and other questions. He begins with basic information about the natural hybridization process. He then describes what we now know about hybridization between the world's most important crops - such as wheat, rice, maize, and soybeans - and their wild relatives. Such hybridization, Ellstrand explains, is not rare, and it has occasionally produced a substantial impact. In some cases, the result was problematic weeds. In others, crop genes have diluted natural diversity to the point that wild populations of certain rare species were absorbed into the gene pool of the more common crop, bringing the wild species to the brink of extinction." "Ellstrand concludes with a look to the future. Will engineered crops pose a greater threat than traditional crops? If so, can gene flow and hybridization be managed to control the escape of engineered genes? This book will appeal to academics, policy makers, students, and all with an interest in environmental issues."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13185526.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""In Dangerous Liaisons? geneticist Norman C. Ellstrand examines these and other questions. He begins with basic information about the natural hybridization process. He then describes what we now know about hybridization between the world's most important crops - such as wheat, rice, maize, and soybeans - and their wild relatives. Such hybridization, Ellstrand explains, is not rare, and it has occasionally produced a substantial impact. In some cases, the result was problematic weeds. In others, crop genes have diluted natural diversity to the point that wild populations of certain rare species were absorbed into the gene pool of the more common crop, bringing the wild species to the brink of extinction." "Ellstrand concludes with a look to the future. Will engineered crops pose a greater threat than traditional crops? If so, can gene flow and hybridization be managed to control the escape of engineered genes? This book will appeal to academics, policy makers, students, and all with an interest in environmental issues."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-232) and index.".
- catalog description "List of figures and tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- pt. 1. Foreplay -- 1. The case of the bolting beets, part 1. Long distance romance -- 2. Hybridization and gene flow, and introduction -- 3. Natural hybridization between plant species -- 4. Evolutionary consequences of gene flow -- and applied implications -- pt. 2. Caught in the act -- 5. Evidence for recognizing natural hybrids -- 6. The case of the bolting beets, part II. Detectives arrive at the scene -- 7. Do important crops mate with wild relatives? -- 8. Is natural hybridization with wild relatives the rule for domesticated plants? -- pt. 3. Dangerous liaisons? -- 9. Some impacts of gene flow of domesticated alleles into wild populations -- 10. The case of the bolting beets, part III. The cloudy crystal ball -- 11. The "special" case of genetically engineered plants? -- 12. Whether and how to manage domesticated gene flow into wild populations -- References -- Index.".
- catalog extent "xx, 244 p. :".
- catalog identifier "080187405X (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Syntheses in ecology and evolution".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog subject "631.5/233 21".
- catalog subject "Plant diversity conservation.".
- catalog subject "Pollination.".
- catalog subject "SB123.57 .E44 2003".
- catalog subject "Transgenic plants Risk assessment.".
- catalog subject "Transgenic plants.".
- catalog tableOfContents "List of figures and tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- pt. 1. Foreplay -- 1. The case of the bolting beets, part 1. Long distance romance -- 2. Hybridization and gene flow, and introduction -- 3. Natural hybridization between plant species -- 4. Evolutionary consequences of gene flow -- and applied implications -- pt. 2. Caught in the act -- 5. Evidence for recognizing natural hybrids -- 6. The case of the bolting beets, part II. Detectives arrive at the scene -- 7. Do important crops mate with wild relatives? -- 8. Is natural hybridization with wild relatives the rule for domesticated plants? -- pt. 3. Dangerous liaisons? -- 9. Some impacts of gene flow of domesticated alleles into wild populations -- 10. The case of the bolting beets, part III. The cloudy crystal ball -- 11. The "special" case of genetically engineered plants? -- 12. Whether and how to manage domesticated gene flow into wild populations -- References -- Index.".
- catalog title "Dangerous liaisons? : when cultivated plants mate with their wild relatives / Norman C. Ellstrand.".
- catalog type "text".