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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
"Recommended. An optimistic view of biotechnology and plant genetic engineering in an easily understood and non-technical way." -EMRO Review England's green and pleasant land is turning yellow. Oil seed, a wonderfully adaptable plant, has become a prime crop. Genetic engineers hybridize it with alien species, alien material and in doing so these vast yellow fields are becoming the world's new plastic factories, oil wells and major food stores.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the last thirty years global demand for food has doubled. In a race to feed the planet, scientists have discovered how to manipulate DNA, the blueprint of life, and produce what they claim are stronger, more disease-resistant crops. However, fears that genetically modified food many not be safe for humans or the environment has sparked.
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