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From page 319... ... Mary Lou Guerinot of Dartmouth College wrote the"glowing commentary."Additional sources include publications by and interviews with Gary Toenniessen and Klaus Ammann (who were interviewed by Brown in February 2003) and correspondence with Henry Miller. Read the entire page →
From page 320... ... P Forster's comments on Golden Promise barley, and the anther culture experiments of Q Read the entire page →
From page 321... ... Beadle's "The Ancestry of Corn," in Scientific American, January 1980, as well as from Iltis (1983 and his 2002 conference paper abstracted at www.2002.botanyconference.org/section4.abstracts/ 4.shtml) ; the description of Iltis is from Fussell (1992) Read the entire page →
From page 322... ... . 4: GENES AND SPECIES Ernst Mayr's classic book, Systematics and the Origin of Species, was published in 1942, yet how to define the term "species"and how to categorize plants remain active areas of research for taxonomists. Read the entire page →
From page 323... ... The McClintock biography mentioned is Evelyn Fox Keller's 1983 book, A Feeling for the Organism; the scientist whose experience contradicts Keller's description is Nina Fedoroff, coauthor of the present volume, who worked with McClintock for several years and has written extensively on McClintock's discovery, as well as on her own work on transposons. Lee Kass of Cornell University was consulted for some biographical details concerning McClintock. Read the entire page →
From page 324... ... , and Russo (2003) all describe a "birth of biotechnology." Additional information about Lederberg and bacterial sex can be found on the websites of the National Library of Medicine and the Nobel Institute. Read the entire page →
From page 325... ... Fedoroff was a member of the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee from 1980-1984 and a member of the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee Working Group on Guideline Revisions in 1987. Fredrickson's and Stone's recollections are online at http://www.nih.gov/news/ and http:// profiles.nlm.nih.gov/. Read the entire page →
From page 326... ... Schubbert (1997) , as cited in the 2000 FAO-WHO report, "Safety Aspects of Genetically Modified Foods of Plant Origin." Studies of the digestion of DNA include Doerfler (2000) Read the entire page →
From page 327... ... . Basic information on cauliflower mosaic virus comes from Central Coast Agriculture Highlights, published by the University of California at Davis, and Shepherd's Descriptions of Plant Viruses, online at www3res.bbsrc.ac.uk/. Read the entire page →
From page 328... ... notes that Kellogg called peanuts "the noble nut." Gina Kolata wrote about the allergy-limiting drug in the New York Times, 11 March 2003. The "Fruit Detective" was profiled by John Seabrook in the 19 & 26 August 2002 issue of the New Yorker. Read the entire page →
From page 329... ... Eliot Herman's work is discussed in the 2003 Annual Report of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis. Read the entire page →
From page 330... ... 11: POLLEN HAS ALWAYS FLOWN Gene flow, as a natural and ancient process, is discussed in the chapter by Klaus Ammann, Yolande Jacot, Pia Rufener, and Al Mazyad in Custers (2001) and by Ammann (2003) Read the entire page →
From page 331... ... Bob Scott and Chris Tingle discuss the need for Roundup Ready soy in Arkansas in the Delta Farm Press, 7 March 2003. 12: THE ORGANIC RULE Information on the organic foods industry, including the current Organic Rule,can be found on the USDA's website (www.ams.usda.gov/) Read the entire page →
From page 332... ... 13: SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE The successes and failures of the Green Revolution, and the need for new agricultural technologies that conserve land and water resources, are discussed by Avery (1995) ; Norman Borlaug, in his Thirtieth Anniversary Lecture at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, 8 September 2000 (www.nobel.se) Read the entire page →
From page 333... ... 14: SHARING THE FRUITS The story of the San Marzano tomato is told by Michael Specter in the New Yorker, 10 April 2000; by Sergio Domp� in Slow: The International Herald of Taste, July-September 2001; and by Leonardo Vingiani in the essay, "The Application of Biotechnology: What Do Italians Think? ", posted on the website of the International Centre for Pesticides and Health Risk Prevention (www.icps.it) Read the entire page →
From page 334... ... Brown interviewed Ingo Potrykus in April 2003, John Beard in July 2003, and Karel Schubert in November 2003. Additional information on the bioavailability tests of IR16844 is posted on the IRRI website (www.irri.org) Read the entire page →
From page 335... ... . The 1993 survey of New Jersey residents was performed by Rutgers University and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station and is available through the National Agriculture Library at www.nal.usda.gov/bic/Pubpercep/. Read the entire page →

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... Mary Lou Guerinot of Dartmouth College wrote the"glowing commentary."Additional sources include publications by and interviews with Gary Toenniessen and Klaus Ammann (who were interviewed by Brown in February 2003) and correspondence with Henry Miller.

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