Genetic Resources of PHASEOLUS Beans: Their Maintenance, Domestication, Evolution and Utilization (Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture)

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Genetic modification is one of the most important and controversial issues facing the food industry today. Drawing on an international team of contributors, Fruit and Vegetable Biotechnology explores its major impact on fruit and vegetable cultivation and subsequent food processing. The book begins with an analysis of the available tools and methods, from the selection and isolation of genes to safety issues such as the stability of transgenes. The contributors discuss the range of properties that have been the subject of genetic enhancement, including agronomic traits such as fruit quality and resistance to environmental stresses, as well as sensory properties such as color, flavor, processing functionality, and nutritional quality. In addition, the text also examines the use of molecular markers in plant breeding. The subsequent chapters consider how biotechnology can improve plant defense mechanisms and also extend the post-harvest life of fruit and vegetables. Thorough case studies illustrate the efforts involved and the positive effects resulting from genetic modification, and also offer insight into future applications. To complete their survey of this field, the authors explore the vital issues of consumer attitudes and risk assessment. Fruit and Vegetable Biotechnology is an important contribution to a key area of debate, and is essential reading for everyone involved in the cultivation and processing of fruit and vegetables.

Allelochemicals: Biological Control of Plant Pathogens and Diseases (Disease Management of Fruits and Vegetables)

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Biological control of plant diseases and plant pathogens is of great significance in forestry and agriculture. There is great incentive to discover biologically active natural products from higher plants that are better than synthetic agrochemicals and are much safer, from a health and environmental point-of-view. The development of natural products such as herbicides, fungicides, and their role in biological control of plant diseases, indicates a reduction in environmental and health hazards. Allelopathic techniques offer a real future in solving several problems, for instance biological control of plant pests. This book is organized around the indication that allelochemicals can be employed for biological control of plant pathogens and plant diseases. Specifically, this volume focuses on (i) discovery and development of natural product based fungicides for agriculture, (ii) direct use of allelochemicals as well as indirect effects through cover crops and organic amendments for plant parasitic pest control and (iii) application of allelopathy in pest management.

Banana Improvement: Research Challenges and Opportunities (Environmentally Sustainable Development, Agricultural Research, and Extension Series. Banana Improvement Project Report, No. 1)

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Banana Improvement: Research Challenges and Opportunities (Environmentally Sustainable Development, Agricultural Research, and Extension Series. Banana Improvement Project Report, No. 1)

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Breeding Legumes for Enhanced Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation (Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology)

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Breeding Legumes for Enhanced Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation (Advances in Agricultural Biotechnology)

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Safety Assessment of Genetically Engineered Fruits and Vegetables: A Case Study of the Flavr Savr Tomato

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Safety Assessment of Genetically Engineered Fruits and Vegetables: A Case Study of the Flavr Savr Tomato
Keith Redenbaugh
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Use of genetically engineered plants for food production has raised many questions about food safety. Scientists, environmentalists, and government regulators have debated safety issues since the advent of genetic engineering. Recently, Calgene, Inc. became the first company to go to the FDA to request its evaluation of what will likely be the first whole food produced using genetic engineering technology: the FLAVR SAVR™ tomato. This book outlines Calgene's strategy and approach for obtaining FDA approval, providing a detailed description of information and data necessary to demonstrate the safety of a genetically engineered whole food. The book serves as a model for other organizations attempting to demonstrate safety of their genetically engineered food products. For researchers and faculty, it provides the most extensive data and discussions on engineered foods. The book will provide a valuable resource for students, environmentalists, and others concerned about the use of genetic engineering, demonstrating the exact precision of the technology and its value as a breeding tool for crop development.

World Crops: Cool Season Food Legumes: A global perspective of the problems and prospects for crop improvement in pea, lentil, faba bean and chickpea (Current ... Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture)

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AFFYMETRIX COMPLETES LARGEST GENECHIP PLANT MICROARRAY STUDY.: An article from: Biotech Business

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AFFYMETRIX COMPLETES LARGEST GENECHIP PLANT MICROARRAY STUDY.: An article from: Biotech Business
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This digital document is an article from Biotech Business, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2007. The length of the article is 691 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Alternatives sought to inhibit enzymatic browning in fruits and vegetables.: An article from: Emerging Food R&D Report

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This digital document is an article from Emerging Food R&D Report, published by Food Technology Intelligence, Inc. on September 1, 1999. The length of the article is 560 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Alternatives sought to inhibit enzymatic browning in fruits and vegetables.
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Argentina's GM woes.(Thinking Ecologically): An article from: Synthesis/Regeneration

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Argentina's GM woes.(Thinking Ecologically): An article from: Synthesis/Regeneration
Lilian Joensen , and Mae-Wan Ho
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Holds True for Today

Absolutely fantastic!

Deserves to be widely read.

One of the Great Political and Pyschological Works of the 20th Century

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The Mass Psychology of Fascism
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Fury on Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich

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In this classic study, Reich provides insight into the phenomenon of fascism, which continues to ravage the international community in ways great and small.

Drawing on his medical expereinces with men and women of various classes, races, nations, and religious beliefs, Reich refutes the still generally held notion that fascism is a specific characteristic of certain nationalities or a political party ideology that is imposed on innocent people by means of force or political manneuvers. "Fascism on only the organized political expression of the structure of the average man's character. It is the basic emotional civilization and its mechanistic-mystical conception of life."—Wilhelm Reich

Responsibility for the elimination of fascism thus results with the masses of average people who might otherwise support and champion it.

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Holds True for Today.......2007-01-06

Suggests sexual repression is one of the major roots of fascism. Might have a point. When was the last time the polynesians rallied en-mass hell-bent to take over the world? Makes interesting points about sexually based mass hysteria. Does anybody still remember the McMartin pre-school case?

Absolutely fantastic!.......2006-02-09

The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich

This book is truly an amazing and important read.

Reich delves deep into the origins of Fascism, the rise of Hitler, and the failure of the Soviet movement from the October Revolution of 1917. He shows how and why the masses not only allowed the Nazi state to exist but, also how they perpetuated its existence and the failure of the true democratic ambitions of Lenin, and its take over by Stalin.

I had to stop and remind myself over and over throughout the book that Reich was writing the book over 70 years ago, in the early 1930's, and was writing about Hitler, and not George Bush.

Reich makes balanced and disturbing arguments backed with piles of evidence to show how successful, future revolution can be obtained by recognizing the core of society's illness. With painstaking examples, he shows society's need for the father-like, totalitarian suppression, and it's derivation--sexual suppression.

This is absolutely essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how governments like the Nazis, and the police state of Homeland Security in the US got to where they are, and how we can dismantle them.

I highly recommend reading The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality as a prerequisite to this book.

Deserves to be widely read........2005-10-21

It's quite worrying how much of this book is still urgently relevant today. Whatever your views on Reich's conception of a universal 'orgone energy' (of which you need no understanding to comprehend the most pertinent points of the book, anyway) it's difficult to deny the main focus points here: that thousands of years of authoritarian, patriarchal society has left man 'muscularly armoured' against natural sexuality; that the masses are incapable of true freedom and need a father figure to guide them; and that the core reason that revolutions ultimately fail to bring true freedom is because they fail to address the fact that man has largely become *incapable* of freedom, and so fail to seek a remedy for this situation.

A key point is that when natural, self-regulated sexuality is oppressed by society -- and so suppressed by the individual -- this gratification must be found elsewhere, and so is largely funneled into mystical experiences, causing masses of people to have an irrational structure (in short, leaving them ill-equipped to think for themselves). Thus, as highlighted powerfully by the rise of National Socialism in early Twentieth Century Germany, the masses -- incapable of thinking in a truly rational way -- can be stirred by purely emotional and mystical propaganda, even when it contradicts their own best interests. Reich illustrates how the patriarchal household mirrors wider society, and engenders and supports religious mysticism and irrational nationalism; with the father figure representing both God and Homeland/Fatherland, for example. Reich presents empirical data highlighting the fact that when sexuality is allowed to be expressed without ideology or mystical moralism checking it, then individuals invariably begin to think and act in a rational way, free of the inner contradictions that would impede them.

While it can be stated that in many modern societies sexual morals are losing their control over individuals' sex lives, the legacy of patriarchy means that the sex act is still brutalized to an extent, and is still quite often wrapped up in feelings of guilt, or the sense of doing something 'naughty' (think how many young men, for example, have to make the sex act sound like it is something sordid, or that they are 'conquering their prey', instead of feeling like they are doing something biologically normal). Much of this can be traced to the negative feedback given to infants (as noted by Freud) and adolescents, in terms of masturbation and natural sexual urges, which are, usually always to some extent, suppressed.

Reich goes on to offer an insight into the Soviet Union's failure to deliver actual democracy to the people. You'll get a much more detailed conception of this by reading the book, of course but, in summary: The original idea of socialism -- especially as developed in Lenin's writing -- was to give freedom to the masses firstly by giving them a dictatorial power in a formal sense, as a *temporary* measure -- i.e. preventing the existing dominating forces from keeping them enslaved -- and then to gradually let them 'take over the reins', so to speak. When it became clear, however, that the masses were incapable of accepting real freedom (that is, taking control of social processes, as opposed to merely being conferred token democratic privileges, such as electing a representative) the Party failed to search for the underlying factors behind this seeming unwillingness of the people to take responsibility, and instead 're-introduced' 'democracy'; i.e. reverted straight back to an authoritarian system while presenting the illusion that real freedom had been accomplished. It's hardly possible to exaggerate the importance of such facts.

Anyway, I would thoroughly recommend this book to anyone interested in personal freedom (and, for that matter, probably more so to anyone who *isn't* interested in personal freedom). Maybe after you've read it you'll even decide that the FDA's decision, in 1956, to *burn* all of Reich's books (decades of sociological research) might have been a tad. . . presumptuous.

One of the Great Political and Pyschological Works of the 20th Century.......2005-06-23

If you want to read an outstanding analysis of why conservative "family values" politics are essential to capitalist society and how they can be defeated by a struggle for women's rights, sexual freedom, and true liberation, read The Mass Pyschology of Fascism.

This work is a product of the marriage of the revolutionary political spirit that erupted in Central Europe with the Bolshevik revolution and the series of near revolutions in the countries Reich lived in until the Hitler Victory in 1933--Hungary, Austria, and Germany--with the great discovery by the Freudians that pathology was a product of patriarchial society and its sexual repression.

In the 1920s and 1930s Reich took Freudianism a step further by pointing out that all the non-materialist, drives, complexes, and factors Freud invented to reconcile his discovery of sexual repression and family produced insanity with conservative views about "family values" were invalid ideologically driven pseudoscience. Reich pointed to the fact that Marxists and anthropologists from Morgan in the 19th Century to Malinowski in Reich's time had discovered a pre Patriarchal stage of development predating patriarchy and had also discovered in these socieities or remnants of them, little of the sexual repression Freud postulated was required to maintain society.

So Reich set out in his study of pyschology and in his intervention in the working class political movement of Central Europe to fight for sexual freedom, for women's rights, and for the ending of imperialist and capitalist society. As his struggle brushed up against the growing adoption of bourgeois antisexual morality in the Soviet Union under Stalin and against the ultraleft and opportunist policies of the Comintern infected with Stalinism, Reich's critique turned on the Stalintern and the degenerated Soviet Union as well. Though he built a Sexpol movement of thousands of youth, women, and workers fighting against Hitler in Germany, Reich was expelled from the German Communist party as a "Trotskyist" in 1933.

Sadly, with the victory of Hitler followed by the Moscow Trials, Reich withdrew from active working class politics, then despaired of revolution, and became obessed to the point of his insanity in the 1950s with the idea of "orgone energy" a basic natural universal energy released among other places in good sex. This bogus theory, observed by no other scientist, grew together with a raging paranoia. In the end it aided the witchhunting govenrment of the US put him in jail as a medical quack, and had all of his books including this great work burned and banned in the USA.

In this book, a product of Reich's active struggle against Hitler, Reich traces the links between sexual repression, patriarchal society, and conservative and right wing ideology. He explains how patriarchy attempts to create the neurotic mental health that dominates modern capitalist society to use it to reign over working people. He shows the etiology of religion as a pathological outgrowth of patriarchy, and how conservative "family values" are decisive to conservatism.

Reich, who built a real movement in Germany for sexual freedom and women's rights, is adamant about how fighters for human freedom and socialism cannot simply dismiss issues of women's rights and sexual freedom, but must embrace them if they are to have a chance to defeat fascists among women and youth. He explains that attempts to compete with fascists about who is the best defender of "family values" only strengthens conservatism among working men, working women, and farmers who could be won for the struggle. He cites the sad tactics of the German Communist and Social Democratic parties who tried to outdo Hitler in the fight for "family values' while shrinking away from campaigns for abortion rights, equal pay for equal work, and sexual freedom of the youth, that Reich used to win them away from the Nazis.

There is so much rich thought here about the nature of ideology, family life, and psychology in modern society, and how that can be defeated.

As Reich's orgone theory progressed in the 1940s and 1950s, this book was reedited to include allusions to organe theory and other ideas that were a sad fall from Reich's brilliant vision of the 1930s. I remember reading a bootleg edition of this book in the late 1960s--Reich's books were actually banned and burned by the US government after they framed him up for quackery in the 1950s!--without any of the orgone mumbo jumbo.
However, evenwith the addition of orgone theory, Reich's political and psychological vision is clear here.

No doubt, a prescient reader will dectect a kind of theoretical loop in even the original Reich who overplays the power of social pathology to build politically and social compliant mentalities in working people, but underplays the ability of great events in history, social struggles, and the efforts of vanguard fighters like the Reich of the early 1930s, to help millions to come to the kind of realizations that Reich had reached.

Yet, with this weakness, this a book matched by few others in its disection of capitalist ideology, social pathology, and the potential to struggle for a better world. You must read this book!

Keep it in a box.......2005-04-01

Before you devote a lot of time reading his work, you ought to look up Reich's biography on Wikipedia. He was incredibly prolific and is notable for having written against Fascism and come out against Communism long before it was fashionable. He is also known for inventing the infamous "orgone box" and ending his days in jail for medical quackery and a remarkably incompetent defense. His work is dense and inadvertently thought provoking, but mostly manic and meaningless. It should be preserved, but not widely read.

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