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High Tech Harvest: Understanding Genetically Modified Food Plants. Paul Lurquin

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High Tech Harvest: Understanding Genetically Modified Food Plants Paul Lurquin. pdf ebook Publisher: Language: English Page: 236 ISBN: 0813341752, 9780585499925

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Biologist Lurquin wants people to understand the scientific foundations of the current controversy over enhancing the quality and quantity of the world's food supply through genetic engineering. As Lurquin points out, humans have practiced genetic manipulation since prehistory when the first farmers crossbred grains to begin the practice of agriculture. He explains in great detail the nineteenth-century discoveries of Gregor Mendel that established the science of genetics. Since Mendel, researchers have gone on to uncover the fundamental chemical structures of cells. This knowledge has given birth to the field of genetic engineering, whereby technicians transfer genes wholesale from one species to another, affording massive new possibilities in plant production. Lurquin doesn't view these new techniques as intrinsically unsound, and he opposes wholesale condemnation of genetic engineering. This book's focus on scientific issues as opposed to political posturing gives it a substantive voice in the current noisy debate over genetic manipulation of the foods we all eat. Mark Knoblauch
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Review

"...[a] fascinating book." -- Choice

"A highly needed contribution to inform the general, interested public on the controversial subject of genetic engineering of plants." -- Diter von Wettstein, Washington State University

"Important ammunition in the present public debate about GMO's." -- Lazlo Marton, University of South Carolina