Genetically modified plants: assessing safety and managing risk
Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Tzotzos, George T. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Elsevier/Academic Press ©2009
Ausgabe:1st ed
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:Volltext
Beschreibung: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
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 244 pages, [16] pages of plates)
ISBN:9780123741066
0123741068
9780080920764
0080920764

Es ist kein Print-Exemplar vorhanden.

Fernleihe Bestellen Achtung: Nicht im THWS-Bestand! Volltext öffnen