Seeds of Trade

Economic and ethnobotany

• Ethnobotany Garden (www.ethnobotany.yage.net)
• Ethnobotany of Wild Food Plants (www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/research/profiles/smason/smethnob.htm)
• Society for Economic Botany (www.econbot.org/home.html)
• Centre for Economic Botany, RBG Kew (www.rbgkew.org.uk/scihort/ecbot.html)
• Institute for Economic Botany, New York Botanical Garden (sciweb.nybg.org/science2/InstituteOfEconomicBotany.asp)
• Ethnobotany and Economic Botany of the North American Flora by Charles B. Heiser Jr. (www.erowid.org/entheogens/ethnobotany/ethnobotany_heiser.shtml)
• Plant Cultures (www.plantcultures.org.uk/)
• People and Plants international (peopleandplants.org)
• Nifty Links from Botany 328 at Texas A&M University (www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/biolherb/328links.htm)
• Many of the plants mentioned in this e-book may be seen growing at the Eden Project, Cornwall (www.edenproject.com)

Genetic modification

• DEFRA — Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK Government (www.defra.gov.uk/environment/gm/)
• Ellstrand, Norman (2003) Dangerous Liaisons: when cultivated plants mate with their wild relatives. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.
• GeneWatch (www.genewatch.org/)
• GM Nation — the public debate (www.gmnation.org/)
• Greenpeace — (www.greenpeace.org/)
• Nature — (www.nature.com/ )
• Snow, Allison (2003) Unnatural selection. Nature 424: 619. (www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/)
• The Health and Safety Executive, UK Government - (www.hse.gov.uk/biosafety/gmo/index.htm)
• The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (www.icgeb.trieste.it/) - 'An international organisation dedicated to advanced research and training in molecular biology and biotechnology, with special regard to the needs of the developing world'.
• The Royal Commission on Genetic Modification (New Zealand) - (http://www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/organisms/law-changes/commission/index.html)