Gene worlds : focus on food /
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| Language: | English |
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[χ.τ.]:
Nestle,
[1999]
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Table of Contents:
- Genetic Engineering and Ethics
- The Meaning of Biotechnology and genetic engineering for developing Countries
- The ecological potential of genetic engineering
- The Beginning: the domestication and Cultivation of plans
- The Breeding of domestic animals
- Agriculture and its plants in the pre-industrial era
- On the trial of the invisible
- The fundamental principles of inheritance
- The discovery of DNA
- Of Chromosomes and Flies
- DNA: the carrier of genetic information
- Jumping Genes
- Identical, Similar, Different
- The language of the Genes
- Genetic Engineering
- Bacteria as Gene Ferries
- Genetic Engineering and Food
- Detecting Genetically Modified food
- Genetically Modified food and Allergies
- Wheat breeding
- New Yeast, New Dough
- Fungi and Yeast for a tasty sauce
- Soyabean in focus: Cold Tolerance
- Soya under discussion: a new strategy against weeds
- The potato and its pest
- The Famine Fungus
- How the potato fights viruses
- Cassava-a Virus threatens Africaʹs Bread
- Vineyards and their Enemies
- Transgenic Rootstock Vines to combat infectious Degeneration
- Two important partners for our nutrition: the Plant and the Soil
- Strategies Against the Maize Stem Borer
- Tropical Maize: Strategies against Drought
- Genetics and animal husbandry
- Problems of animal breeding: Bull cow and pig
- Milk Factories and phages
- Vegetable oils: sunflowers and rape
- Biotechnology for the cacao tree.and the coffee tree
- Breeding Rice to Fight Blindness
- Scab-a fungus lurking in the apple trees
- Glossary
- The Authors