Environmental impact of genetically modified crops /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2009.
• Subjects: Food > Safety measures.; Transgenic plants > Environmental aspects.; Agricultural biotechnology.; Food Economics, (New March 2000); Supply, Demand and Prices.; Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Pesticide and Drug Resistance.; Pesticide and Drug Residues and Ecotoxicology, (New March 2000); Water Resources.; Land Resources.; Food Contamination, Residues and Toxicology.; Feed Composition and Quality.; Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Man.; Plants.; Biotechnology.; Environmental impact.; Feeds.; Food safety.; Food supply.; Genetic transformation.; Genetically engineered organisms.; Nontarget effects.; Nontarget organisms.; Resistance management.; Resource management.; Risk assessment.; Soil resources.; Sustainability.; Transgenic plants.; Water resources.; Electronic books.
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This book, containing 20 chapters, addresses the major concerns of scientists, policy makers, environmental lobby groups and the general public regarding the controversial issue on environmental impact (e.g. on soil and water ecology and nontarget organisms) of transgenic crops, from an editorially...

Table of Contents:

• Transgenic crops and their applications for sustainable agriculture and food security / P. Christou and T. Capell
• Environmental benefits of genetically modified crops / M.G. Edwards and G.M. Poppy
• Developing a 21st century view of agriculture and the environment / D. Pimentel and M.G. Paoletti
• Environmental risk assessment / F.G. Tencalla, T.E. Nickson and M. Garcia-Alonso
• Insect resistance to genetically modified crops / B.E. Tabashnik and Y. Carrière
• Resistance management of transgenic insect-resistant crops : ecological factors / B. Raymond and D.J. Wright
• Herbicide-tolerant genetically modified crops : resistance management / M.D.K. Owen
• Impact of insect-resistant transgenic crops on above-ground non-target arthropods / J. Romeis, M. Meissle, A. Raybould and R.L. Hellmich
• Impact of genetically modified crops on pollinators / L.A. Malone and E.P.J. Burgess
• Impact of genetically modified crops on soil and water ecology / R. Wheatley
• Biodiversity and genetically modified crops / Professor K. Ammann
• Potential wider impact : farmland birds / M.J. Whittingham
• Safety for human consumption / R.H. Phipps
• Biofuels : Jatropha curcas as a novel, non-edible oilseed plant for biodiesel / A. Kohli, M. Raorane, S. Popluechai, U. Kannan, J.K. Syers and A.G. O'Donnell
• European commercial genetically modified plantings and field trials / F. Ortego, X. Pons, R. Albajes and P. Castañera
• Monitoring Bt resistance in the field : China as a case study / K. He, Z. Wang, and Y. Zhang
• Current status of crop biotechnology in Africa / D. George
• Agriculture, innovation and environment / N. Ferry and A.M.R. Gatehouse.