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The bioengineered forest : challenges for science and society /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Resources for the Future,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I: Economic and technological choices
- Future forests: environmental and social contexts for forest biotechnologies / Hal Salwasser
- Biotechnology and the forest products industry / Alan A. Lucier, Maud Hinchee, and Tex B. McCullough
- Biotechnology and the global wood supply / Roger A. Sedjo
- Accomplishments and challenges in genetic engineering of forest trees / Rick Meilan, Dave Ellis, Gilles Pilate, Amy M. Brunner, and Jeff Skinner
- Exotic pines and eucalypts: perspectives on risks of transgenic plantations / Rowland D. Burdon and Christian Walter
- Tree biotechnology in the twenty-first century: transforming trees in the light of comparative genomics / Steven H. Strauss and Amy M. Brunner
- II: Ethical, social, and ecological caveats
- The ethics of molecular silviculture / Paul B. Thompson
- Will the marketplace see the sustainable forest for the transgenic trees? / Don S. Doering
- Environmental and social aspects of the intensive plantation/reserve debate / Sharon T. Friedman and Susan Charnley
- Have you got a license for that tree? (and can you afford to use it?) / Nancy S. Bryson, Steven P. Quarles, and Richard J. Mannix
- Invasiveness of transgenic versus exotic plant species: how useful is the analogy? / James F. Hancock and Karen Hokanson
- Potential impacts of genetically modified trees on biodiversity of forestry plantations: a global perspective / Brian Johnson and Keith Kirby
- Transgenic resistance in short-rotation plantation trees: benefits, risks, integration with multiple tactics, and the need to balance the scales / Kenneth F. Raffa.