Research Catalog

Title

Genes on the menu : facts for knowledge-based decisions / Paul Pechan, Gert E. de Vries.

Author

Pechan, Paul

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Vries, Gert E. de

Description

xii, 217 p. : ill.; 24 cm. +

Summary

"This book delivers the state-of-the-art facts in order to empower the public to make knowledge-based decisions about plant biotechnology and GM crops and GM food, in particular. It discusses the hot topics of the present debate in a neutral manner and will function as a personal reference book for the interested public, for decision maker, and managers of consumer organisations."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Genetically modified foods
• Food, Genetically Modified

Genre/Form

CD-ROMs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Basic facts about GM crops / Paul Pechan -- History and uses of plant biotechnology / Andrzej Czaplicki, Jaroslava Ovesna, Gert E. de Vries -- Herbicide tolerance / Janusz Zimny, Gert E. de Vries -- Insect resistance in crop plants / Gert E. de Vries -- Virus resistance / Ervin Balazs, Paul Pechan -- GM crops in the USA and Europe: what farm level benefits might be expected? / Anne-Katrin Bock -- Environmental issues and problems associated with genetically modified plants / Gert E. de Vries, Jaroslava Ovesna -- From a research proposal to a product / Paul Pechan -- Genetically modified products: intellectual property issues / Gert E. de Vries -- GMO traceability and labelling regulations / Paul Pechan -- Plant biotechnology and its regulation in Central and Eastern Europe / Paul Pechan, Ervin Balazs -- Genetically modified plants and risk analysis / Anne-Katrin Bock -- Monitoring of GMOs / Paul Pechan, Ervin Balazs -- Implications of the GMO labelling and traceability legislations / Paul Pechan -- Precautionary principle / Paul Pechan -- Public perception of GM crops / Paul Pechan, Giorgos Sakellaris, Anne-Katrin Bock -- Communication strategies in biotechnology / Paul Pechan, Giorgos Sakellaris -- Communicating risk / Paul Pechan, Giorgos Sakellaris -- The morality and ethics of GMOs / Paul Pechan -- Second generation GM plant products / Gert E. de Vries -- Third generation of GM plants: biofactories / Anne-Katrin Bock, Janusz Zimny -- Biotechnology for food and agriculture: global issues / Gert E. de Vries.

ISBN

3540201785

LCCN

^^2004109051

OCLC

• 60549783
• SCSB-10195980

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library