Genes from the Wild
Using Wild Genetic Resources for Food and Raw Materials
Tomatoes could not be grown commercially without the help of their wild relatives. A single wild species of rice has helped double rice production in Asia. Wild silk-worms are enabling India to expand its silk industry. A wild carp with resistance to cold has been used to extend Soviet carp production further into the north. Wild genetic resources - the heritable characteristics of wild plants and animals - are used increasingly to improve domesticated crops and livestock and as new sources of food and of raw materials. But habitat destruction, over-exploitation and competition from introduced species is destroying many gene pools even befo…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Prescott-Allen, Christine
- ISBN: 978-1-134-06134-1
- EAN: 9781134061341
- Produktnummer: 16980115
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 116 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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