Genetically modified plants : assessing safety and managing risk /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tzotzos, George T.
Other Authors: Hull, Roger, 1937-, Head, Graham P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press, �2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Transgenic plants > Risk assessment.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Agronomy > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Sustainable Agriculture.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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