Genetically Engineered Organisms: Assessing Environmental and Human Health Effects

ISBN-13: 9780367396961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 452 str.

Deborah K. Letourneau; Beth Elpern Burrows

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Letourneau, Deborah K.; Burrows, Beth Elpern