Agricultural Biotechnology (A Lot More than Just GM Crops)
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A short, richly illustrated guide to the tools of crop biotechnology: conventional breeding, tissue culture, marker assisted selection, genetic engineering and molecular diagnostics. A fast way to understand what GM crops are and what else biotech does for farming.
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