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      Agricultural Biotechnology: Strategies for National Competitiveness

      National Research Council,Board on Agriculture,Committee on a National Strategy for Biotechnology in Agriculture,National Academy of Sciences

      Biotechnology offers tremendous potential for improving crop production, animal agriculture, and bioprocessing. This book explores the United States’ ability to solve important agricultural problems, use funds and institutional structures to…

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      National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds: Proceedings of a Workshop

      National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources,Planning Committee for a National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds

      Preserving the efficacy of herbicides and of herbicide-resistance technology depends on awareness of the increasing resistance of weeds to herbicides used in agriculture and coordinated action to address the problem…

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      A Strategy for Research in Space Biology and Medicine into the Next Century

      Committee on Space Biology and Medicine,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Provides a review of ground-based and space research in eleven disciplines, ranging from bone physiology to plant biology. This book offers recommendations for research. It is useful as a reference…

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      Strategies for Preservation of and Open Access to Scientific Data in China: Summary of a Workshop

      National Research Council,Board on International Scientific Organizations,U.S. National Committee for CODATA

      Preservation of and open access to digital scientific resources are essential to global research, yet the challenges in storing and maintaining access to these collections are substantial. China faces major…

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      Transforming Agricultural Education for a Changing World

      Committee on a Leadership Summit to Effect Change in Teaching and Learning,National Research Council

      During the next ten years, colleges of agriculture will be challenged to transform their role in higher education and their relationship to the evolving global food and agricultural enterprise. If…

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      Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: A Vision and a Strategy

      Committee on Toxicity Testing and Assessment of Environmental Agents,National Research Council

      The US Environmental Protection Agency asked the Council to review the methods and strategies currently being used to evaluate the hazards of risks associated with exposure to drugs, food additives…

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      Evaluation of a Site-Specific Risk Assessment for the Department of Homeland Security’s Planned National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas

      Committee on the Evaluation of a Site-Specific Risk Assessment for the Department of Homeland Security's Planned National Bio-& Agro-Defense Facility,National Research Council

      Congress requested that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) produce a site-specific biosafety and biosecurity risk assessment (SSRA) of the proposed National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan…

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