Agricultural Bioengineering

Agricultural bioengineering is basically using genetics altering technology to, in a laboratory, create newer and better versions of the plant and animal products already in existence. Genetic engineering can be used for many different things. Cloning, creating entirely new species and manipulating already existing species are a few. Each of these are examples of controversial issues, however, engineering of foods to be consumed by humans is one of the larger, more controversial issues out of …

…PLANT BREEDING; How genetic engineering differs from conventional breeding, hybridization, wide crosses and horizontal gene transfer by Michael K. Hansen, Ph.D. Research Associate Consumer Policy Institute/Consumers Union http://www.consumersunion.org/food/widecpi200.htm 4. <Tab/>Plant Genetic Engineering November 1990 Publisher: Chapman & Hall 320 pages 5. <Tab/>Genetic Engineering of Osmoregulation : Impact of Plant Productivity for Food, Chemicals, & Energy June 1980 Publisher: Perseus Publishing 396 pages