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Biological confinement of genetically engineered organisms /

Annotation Genetically engineered organisms (GEOs) have been under development for more than 20 years while GE crops have been grown commercially during the last decade. During this time, a number of questions have cropped up concerning the potential consequences that certain GEOs might have on natu...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Biological Confinement of Genetically Engineered Organisms
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : National Academies Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rationale for Bioconfinement 3
  • Methods of Bioconfinement 4
  • Ensuring Bioconfinement Efficacy 6
  • Detecting and Mitigating Bioconfinement Failure 10
  • Ecological Consequences of Large-Scale Use of Bioconfinement 11
  • What Are Genetically Engineered Organisms? 14
  • What is Bioconfinement? 15
  • Other Confinement Methods 16
  • Scope of the Report 17
  • International Aspects 19
  • History of Confinement 19
  • Social Acceptability of Bioconfinement Methods 25
  • 2 When and Why to Consider Bioconfinement 29
  • What is Risk? 30
  • Concerns 35
  • Effects on Nontarget Species 52
  • Delaying the Evolution of Resistance 52
  • Food Safety and Other Issues 53
  • When and Why to Consider Bioconfinement: The Need for Preventive Actions 53
  • How Much Confinement Is Enough? 54
  • Need for Bioconfinement 55
  • Predicting the Consequences of Failure 56
  • Who Decides 58
  • 3 Bioconfinement of Plants 65
  • Methods of Bioconfinement 65
  • Genetically Engineered Trees 98
  • Transgenic Grasses 115
  • Transgenic Algae 121
  • Effectiveness at Different Spatial and Temporal Scales 122
  • Monitoring and Managing Confinement Failure 124
  • 4 Bioconfinement of Animals: Fish, Shellfish, and Insects 130
  • Bioconfinement of Fish and Shellfish 132
  • Bioconfinement of Insects 153
  • 5 Bioconfinement of Viruses, Bacteria, and Other Microbes 159
  • Potential Effects or Concerns, and Need for Bioconfinement in Viruses, Fungi, and Bacteria 160
  • Bioconfinement of Bacteria, Viruses, and Fungi 169
  • 6 Biological and Operational Considerations for Bioconfinement 180
  • What Biology Tells Us about Confinement and Bioconfinement 180
  • Execution of Confinement 185
  • International Aspects 193
  • Bioconfinement Failure 194
  • Looking to the Future: Strategic Public Investment in Bioconfinement Research 195.