Return to resistance : breeding crops to reduce pesticide dependence /
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| Author / Creator: | Robinson, Raoul A., 1928- |
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| Imprint: | Davis, CA : AgAccess, 1996. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 480 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11204121 |
| Summary: | In the tradition of Silent Spring, Raoul Robinson's Return to Resistance calls for a revolution. Traditional plant breeding techniques have led us to depend more and more on chemical pesticides to protect ourcrops. Return to Resistance shows gardeners, farmers, and plant breeders how to use a long-neglected technique to create hardy new plant varieties that are naturally resistant to pests and disease. Horizontal resistance breeding has been largely ignored in this century due to the popularity and apparent successes of the Mendelian geneticists. However the colossal, unrecognized failure of modern crops is their extreme susceptiblity to pests and diseases, and the consequent necessity to spray them repeatedly with pesticides. We have come to accept exposure to pesticides in our food as a necessary evil. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 480 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 458) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781552503638 1552503631 9780889367746 0889367744 9780932857170 0932857175 128084972X 9781280849725 9786610849727 6610849722 |