Genetically Modified Plants: Assessing Safety and Managing Risk -

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Auteur(s) : Collectif

Editeur : Academic Pr Inc

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/09/2020

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 300

Expédition : 865

Dimensions : 24.4 x 19.7 x 2.4

ISBN : 9780128185643

Résumé :

Genetically Modified Plants, Second Edition, provides an updated roadmap and science-based methodology for assessing the safety of genetic modification technologies, as well as risk assessment approaches from regulators across different agroecosystems. This new edition also includes expanded coverage of technologies used in plant improvement, such as RNA-dependent DNA methylation, reverse breeding, agroinfiltration, and gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR and TALENS. This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in crop improvement, including students and researchers, practitioners in regulatory agencies, and policymakers involved in plant biotechnology risk assessment.

Biographie:
Roger Hull graduated in botany from Cambridge University and undertook his graduate studies in plant virus diagnostics and epidemiology at London University. He lectured on agricultural botany there and at Makerere University in Uganda. In 1965 he moved to fundamental studies of plant viruses, first at Cambridge in the United Kingdom and then at the John Innes Institute (now Centre) in Norwich. He spent a sabbatical year (1974) at University of California, Davis, where he learnt the fundamentals of the newly developing molecular biology technology. He applied to this to plant virus characterisation, diagnostics and virus control, especially in tropical crops such as rice and plantain bananas. He retired in 1997 but continued research, lecturing and book writing. Dr Hull was an honorary professor at University of East Anglia in the UK and Peking and Fudan Universities in China, a Doctoris Honoris Causa at the University of Perpignan in France, and a Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers on plant virology and more than 40 reviews in scientific journals, and has authored five books. In retirement Roger Hull also became involved in promoting the uptake of transgenic technology by developing countries as one approach to alleviating food insecurity. He was on the International faculty of the e-learning diploma course training decision makers, mainly in developing countries, in plant biotechnology regulation.

Sommaire:

Preface

List of abbreviations

1. Setting the Context: Agriculture and Crop/Food Sustainability

2. Technologies for Crop Improvement

3. Current Progress and Future Needs of Genetically Modified Plants

4. Principles of Risk Assessment

5. Evolution of Regulatory Systems and National Biosafety Frameworks

6. Molecular Characterization of GM plants

7. Risk Assessment and Management: Human and Animal Health

8. Risk Assessment and Management: Environment

9. Risk Perception and Public Attitudes to GM

10. The Future

Appendix A: Glossary

Appendix B: Climate Change and Global Warming

Appendix C: Details of Major Biotic Constraints

Appendix D: Genetics and Gene Expression

Appendix E: Mutations

Appendix F: Information required on an application for environmental release of a GMO

Appendix G: GM food labeling in different countries

Appendix H: Differences in public uptake of GM foods