Plants, biotechnology and agriculture / (Record no. 5968)
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| fixed length control field | 01701cam a22002414a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781845936884 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 1845936884 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781845938710 ('cabi south asia' edition : alk. paper) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 1845938712 ('cabi south asia' edition : alk. paper) |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 631.523 |
| Item number | MUR/PL |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Murphy, Denis J. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Plants, biotechnology and agriculture / |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; |
| -- | Cambridge, MA : |
| Name of publisher | CABI, |
| Year of publication | c2011. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | ix, 310 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill., maps ; |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Modular texts |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Plants and their genomes -- Plants and their exploitation by people -- Photosynthesis and the evolution of plants -- Plant molecular genetics and genomics -- How plants function -- Plant metabolism -- Plant organization and development -- Plant responses to the environment -- How plants are manipulated -- Domestication and the empirical exploitation of plants -- The scientific manipulation of plants -- Crop improvement in the 20th century -- Plants, society and the future -- Plant biotechnologies in the 21st century -- Social context of plant biotechnologies -- Future challenges for plant biotechnology. |
| 520 0# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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. This book provides the reader with a guide to plants as both organisms and resources. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Plants, Cultivated. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Agriculture. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Botany, Economic. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Plant biotechnology. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Non-fiction | KUFOS Central Library | KUFOS Central Library | General Stacks | 10/06/2016 | 631.523 MUR/PL | 10740 | Books |