Genetically modified plants : assessing safety and managing risk /
Genetically Modified Plants, Second Edition, provides an updated roadmap and science-based methodology for assessing the safety of genetic modification technologies, as well as risk assessment approaches from regulators across different agroecosystems. This new edition also includes expanded coverag...
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| Language: | English |
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London, United Kingdom :
Academic Press,
[2021]
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Online Access: | ScienceDirect |
Table of Contents:
- Setting the context : agriculture and crop/food sustainability
- Technologies for crop improvement
- Current progress and future needs of genetically engineered crop plants
- Principles of risk assessment
- Evolution of regulatory systems and national biosafety frameworks
- Molecular characterization of GM plants
- Risk assessment and management : human and animal health
- Risk assessment and management : environment
- Risk perception and public attitudes to bioengineered crops
- The future.
- Appendices: Glossary ; Climate change and global warming: impacts on crop production ; Details of major biotic constraints ; Genetics and gene expression ; Mutations ; Information required of an application for environmental release of a GMO ; GM food labeling in different countries
- Differences in public update of GP foods.