Environmental risk assessment of genetically modified organisms. Volume 4, Challenges and opportunities with Bt cotton in Vietnam /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2008.
• Subjects: Cotton > Genetic engineering > Vietnam.; Crops > Genetic engineering > Environmental aspects.; Transgenic plants > Risk assessment.; Field Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Gossypium.; Plants.; Cotton.; Gene flow.; Genetic engineering.; Genetic transformation.; Genetically engineered organisms.; Nontarget effects.; Nontarget organisms.; Risk assessment.; Transgenic plants.; Electronic books.
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This book (13 chapters), the fourth in a series (the first, second and third books focused on Bt maize in Kenya, Bt cotton in Brazil, and risk assessment and management of transgenic fish, respectively) that provides scientifically peer-reviewed tools that can help developing countries strengthen th...

Table of Contents:

• Challenges and Opportunities with GM Crops in Vietnam : the Case of Bt Cotton
• Cotton Production in Vietnam
• Consideration of Problem Formulation and Option Assessment (PFOA) for Environmental Risk Assessment : Bt Cotton in Vietnam
• Transgene Locus Structure and Expression
• Non-target and Biological Diversity Risk Assessment
• Potential Effect of Transgenic Cotton on Non-target Herbivores in Vietnam
• Invertebrate Predators in Bt Cotton in Vietnam: Techniques for Prioritizing Species and Developing Risk Hypotheses for Risk Assessment
• Potential Effects of Transgenic Cotton on Non-target Insect Parasitoids in Vietnam
• Potential Effects of Transgenic Cotton on Flower Visitors in Vietnam
• Potential Effects of Transgenic Cotton on Soil Ecosystem Processes in Vietnam
• Environmental Risks Associated with Gene Flow from Transgenic Cotton in Vietnam
• Resistance Risk Assessment and Management for Bt Cotton in Vietnam
• Challenges and Opportunities with Bt Cotton in Vietnam: Synthesis and Recommendations.