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Format:

Book

Author:

Fedoroff, Nina V. (Nina Vsevolod), 1942-

Title:

Mendel in the kitchen : a scientist's view of genetically modified foods / Nina V. Fedoroff and Nancy Marie Brown.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

xiii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary:

"While European restaurants race to footnote menus, reassuring concerned gourmands that no genetically modified ingredients were used in the preparation of their food, starving populations around the world eagerly await the next harvest of scientifically improved crops. Mendel in the Kitchen provides a clear and balanced picture of this tangled, tricky (and very timely) topic "--HTML title screen

Subjects:

Genetically modified foods.

Plant genetic engineering.

Transgenic plants.

Other Author:

Brown, Nancy Marie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-350) and index.

Also available in electronic form via the Internet as viewed 10/29/2004.

System requirements: Internet access, World Wide Web browser; authoritative form is in Portable Document Format.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Contents:

Against the ways of nature -- The wild and the sown -- The power in the earth -- Genes and species -- Tinkering with evolution -- Making a chimera -- The product or the process -- Is it safe to eat? -- Poisoned rats or poisoned wells -- The butterfly and the corn borer -- Pollen has always flown -- The organic rule -- Sustaining agriculture -- Sharing the fruits -- Food for thought.

Web Site:

Table of contents

LCCN:

2004014040

ISBN:

0309092051

9780309092050

030909738X

9780309097383

Other Number:

55800762

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

143817

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1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

641.3 Fedoroff