Genetically modified plants : assessing safety and managing risk /
A transgenic organism is a plant, animal, bacterium, or other living organism that has had a foreign gene added to it by means of genetic engineering. Transgenic plants can arise by natural movement of genes between species, by cross-pollination based hybridization between different plant species (w...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier/Academic Press,
�2009.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Setting the context : agriculture and genetic modification
- Principles of risk assessment
- Risk assessment and management
- human and animal health
- Risk assessment and management
- environment
- Risk perception and public attitudes to GM
- Regulatory frameworks
- Appendix A : commonly used terms
- Appendix B : information required on an application for environmental release of a GMO
- Appendix C : Information required for risk assessment
- Appendix D : Case studies.