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At a time when the world's food supplies are increasingly unable to meet the needs of a burgeoning population, there is significant diversity of opinion concerning the benefits and perceived dangers of the application of biotechnology to food production.Plants, Biotechnology and Agricultureprovides the reader with a guide to plants as both organisms and resources. The first half of the book gives an overview of plant biology, suitable for students of plant biology and agriculture as well as those without a biology background. This is followed by an outline of the human exploitation of plants, from domestication to scientific manipulation. Further chapters describe the technologies that are now being used to improve crops, society's responses to these technologies, and how they are being modified as a result. The book concludes with a discussion of future challenges for biotechnology in the face of rapid population growth, depletion of non-renewable resources and climate change.PART I. PLANTS AND THEIR GENOMES
PART II. HOW PLANTS FUNCTION
PART III. HOW PLANTS ARE MANIPULATED
PART IV. PLANTS, SOCIETY AND THE FUTURE

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    • ISBN
      9781845936884
    • Code produit
      628918
    • Éditeur
      CABI PUBLISHING
    • Date de publication
      1 décembre 2011
    • Format
      Papier