Genetically Modified Plants: Assessing Safety and Managing Risk

ISBN-13: 9780128185643 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 300 str.

Roger Hull; Graham Head; George T. Tzotzos

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Preface

List of abbreviations

1. Setting the Context: Agriculture and Crop/Food Sustainability

2. Technologies for Crop Improvement

3. Current Progress and Future Needs of Genetically Modified Plants

4. Principles of Risk Assessment

5. Evolution of Regulatory Systems and National Biosafety Frameworks

6. Molecular Characterization of GM plants

7. Risk Assessment and Management: Human and Animal Health

8. Risk Assessment and Management: Environment

9. Risk Perception and Public Attitudes to GM

10. The Future

Appendix A: Glossary

Appendix B: Climate Change and Global Warming

Appendix C: Details of Major Biotic Constraints

Appendix D: Genetics and Gene Expression

Appendix E: Mutations

Appendix F: Information required on an application for environmental release of a GMO

Appendix G: GM food labeling in different countries

Appendix H: Differences in public uptake of GM foods