Agricultural biotechnology : strategies for national competitiveness / Committee on a National Strategy for Biotechnology in Agriculture, Board on Agriculture, National Research Council.
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TextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1987Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF file (xvi, 205 pages)) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 058514253X
- 9780585142531
- Agricultural biotechnology -- United States
- Agricultural biotechnology -- Government policy -- United States
- Agriculture -- Research -- United States
- Agriculture -- Research -- Government policy -- United States
- Transgenic plants
- Crop zones
- Biotechnology
- Bioengineering
- Agriculture -- methods
- Plants, Genetically Modified
- Crops, Agricultural
- Biotechnology
- Genetic Engineering -- methods
- United States
- Biotechnologie agricole -- États-Unis
- Biotechnologie agricole -- Politique gouvernementale -- États-Unis
- Agriculture -- Recherche -- États-Unis
- Agriculture -- Recherche -- Politique gouvernementale -- États-Unis
- Plantes transgéniques
- Zones de cultures
- Biotechnologie
- bioengineering
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General
- Agricultural biotechnology
- Agricultural biotechnology -- Government policy
- Agriculture -- Research
- Agriculture -- Research -- Government policy
- United States
- Inovacoes Tecnicas Na Agricultura
- Andre fag (naturvidenskab og teknik) Andre fag
- 631.3/0973 19
- S494.5.B563 N37 1987eb
- S 494.5.B563
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Biotechnology offers tremendous potential for improving crop production, animal agriculture, and bioprocessing. It can provide scientists with new ways to develop higher-yielding and more nutritious crop varieties, to improve resistance to disease, or to reduce the need for inputs of fertilizers and other expensive agricultural chemicals. This book explores the United States' ability to solve important agricultural problems, effectively use funds and institutional structures to support biotechnology research for agriculture, train researchers in new scientific areas, efficiently transfer technology, and regulate and test recombinant DNA organisms in the field.
Support for this project was provided by grants from the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and by contributions from the Foundation for Agronomic Research and the Richard Lounsbery Foundation. It also has received support from the National Research Council Fund, a pool of private, discretionary, nonfederal funds that is used to support a program of Academy-initiated studies of national issues in which science and technology figure significantly. The NRC Fund consists of contributions from a consortium of private foundations including the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; the Academy Industry Program, which seeks annual contributions from companies that are concerned with the health of U.S. science and technology and with public policy issues with technological content; and the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering endowments.
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