Genetically Engineered Organisms

Assessing Environmental and Human Health Effects
Herausgeber: Letourneau, Deborah K; Burrows, Beth Elpern

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written by researchers from the cutting edge of botany, entomology, plant pathology, and other agricultural and environmental sciences, this book explores critical research on pollen movement, spread of transgenes in natural communities, fitness effects, resistance development, and unpredicted impacts on target and non-target organisms. These topics are explored in contexts ranging from Bt corn events and viral resistant oats to transgenic salmon and altered malarial vectors. The book addresses theoretical and information gaps and offers historical insights into factors that may affect risk assessment and risk management decision-making at the community, national, and international levels.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bsp Books Pvt. Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 953g
• ISBN-13: 9780367396961
• ISBN-10: 0367396963
• Artikelnr.: 57783871

Autorenporträt

Letourneau, Deborah K.; Burrows, Beth Elpern

Inhaltsangabe

Variability and Uncertainty in Crop-to-Wild Hybridization. Factors
Affecting the Spread of Resistant Arabidopsis Thaliana Populations. Bt
Crops, Resisting Resistance to Bt Corn. Ecological Risks of Transgenic
Virus-Resistant Crops. Impacts of Genetically-Engineered Crops on
Non-Target Herbivores: Bt-Corn and Monarch Butterflies as a Case Study.
Transgenic Host Plant Resistance and Non-Target Effects. Release,
Persistence, and Biological Activity in Soil of Insecticidal Proteins from
Bacillus Thuringiensis. Survival, Persistence, Transfer, The Spread of
Genetic Constructs in Natural Insect Populations. Ecological and Community
Considerations in Engineering Arthropods to Suppress Vector-Borne Disease.
Environmental Risks of Genetically Engineered Vaccines. Methods to Assess
Ecological Risks of Transgenic Fish Releases. Controversies in Designing
Useful Ecological Assessments of Genetically Engineered Organisms.