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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 & Agriculture" provides 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. It is suitable for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students and lecturers of agriculture, horticulture and related disciplines.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Biology, life sciences Botany & plant sciences

• Full title: Plants, Biotechnology and Agriculture
• Author: D. Murphy
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9781845936884
• ISBN: 1845936884
• ID: 01356701
• Publisher: CABI Publishing
• Weight: 864 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 246 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. November 2011

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