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" Genetically modified plants : "
George T. Tzotzos, Graham P. Head, Roger Hull.
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950201
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b704571
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Tzotzos, George T.
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Genetically modified plants : : assessing safety and managing risk /\ George T. Tzotzos, Graham P. Head, Roger Hull.
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1st ed.
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Amsterdam ;Boston :: Elsevier/Academic Press,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (x, 244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :: illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
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0080920764
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: 0123741068
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: 9780080920764
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: 9780123741066
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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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 (which is a common event in flowering plant evolution), or by laboratory manipulations by artificial insertion of genes from another species. Methods used in traditional breeding that generate transgenic plants by non-recombinant methods are widely familiar to professional plant scientists, and serve important roles in securing a sustainable future for agriculture by protecting crops from pest and helping land and water to be used more efficiently. There is worldwide interest in the biosafety issues related to transgenic crops because of issues such as increased pesticide use, increased crop and weed resistance to pesticides, gene flow to related plant species, negative effects on nontarget organisms, and reduced crop and ecosystem diversity.
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Transgenic plants-- Risk assessment.
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Risikoanalyse
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING-- Agriculture-- Agronomy-- General.
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING-- Agriculture-- Sustainable Agriculture.
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Transgene Pflanzen
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Transgenic plants-- Risk assessment.
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631.5233
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SB123.57.T96 2009
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Head, Graham P.
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Hull, Roger,1937-
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