Agricultural biotechnology

Author(s)

• Altman, A.
• Colwell, Rita R.

Bibliographic Information

Agricultural biotechnology

edited by Arie Altman ; international advisory editorial board, Rita R. Colwell ... [et al.]

（Books in soils, plants, and the environment）

Marcel Dekker, c1998

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This work integrates basic biotechnological methodologies with up-to-date agricultural practices, offering solutions to specific agricultural needs and problems from plant and crop yield to animal husbandry. It presents and evaluates the limitations of classical methodologies and the potential of novel and emergent agriculturally related biotechnologies.

Table of Contents

• Plant biotechnology: clonal germplasm
• crop improvement
• metabolite production. Microbial agro-biotechnology: biotechnology of plant pest control
• biofertilization, fermentation and bioremediation. Livestock biotechnology: germplasm, reproduction and fertility
• transgenic livestock - growth, milk and egg production
• livestock diseases. Marine biotechnology: fish and marine invertebrates
• macro- and micro-algae. Legal and public aspects.

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Details

• NCID: BA34704507
• ISBN:
  • 0824794397
• LCCN: 97038712
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 770 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : S494.5.B563
  • DC21 : 631
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Agricultural biotechnology
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA10632310