In recent years, there has been increasing interest in how changes in agricultural practice
associated with the introduction of particular genetically modified (GM) crops might indirectly …

Plant evolutionary biologists' view of gene flow and hybridization has undergone a
revolution. Twenty–five years ago, both were considered rare and largely inconsequential …

Examining the position of women in relation to nature-the forests, the food chain and water
supplies-the author links the violaation of nature with the violation and marginalization of …

The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great
progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true …

The classic reference on weeds and invasive plants has been revised and updated. The
Third Edition of this authoritative reference provides an in-depth understanding of how …

In Alien Species and Evolution, biologist George W. Cox reviews and synthesizes emerging
information on the evolutionary changes that occur in plants, animals, and microbial …

With the advent of genetic engineering, designer crops might interbreed with natural
populations. Could such romances lead to the evolution of superweeds, as some have …

I niques, plant breeders now have access to an astounding number of useful genes that can
be in-serted into the plant genome. Virtu-ally all commercially important plants are being …

This book emerged from a series of lectures on crop evolution at the Faculty of Agriculture of
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. While many textbooks are available on general …

Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) in plants is a classical example of genomic conflict,
opposing maternally-inherited cytoplasmic genes (mitochondrial genes in most cases) …