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Author Martineau, Belinda.

Title First fruit : the creation of the Flavr Savr tomato and the birth of genetically engineered food / Belinda Martineau.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill, c2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  635.642233 M366f 2001    ---  Available
Description xvi, 269 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-258) and index.
Contents The gleam in management's eye -- Scientific conception (amid misconceptions and controversy) -- Virgin territory : plant genetic engineering and U.S. regulatory agencies -- The long, hard regulatory labor : the Flavr Savr tomato advisory opinion -- Transition from a science-driven to a business-driven enterprise -- Overpromised, underdelivered -- Afterbirth.
Subject Tomatoes.
Transgenic plants.
Crops -- Genetic engineering.
ISBN 0071360565 (pbk.)

 
    
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