Letourneau / Burrows Genetically Engineered Organisms

Assessing Environmental and Human Health Effects
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4200-4203-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 456 Seiten

Genetic engineering suggests new avenues for constructing useful products, but it also poses hazards to the health of the environment and the public. Delineating those hazards is complicated, difficult, and important at every level of risk assessment and risk management decision-making. Risk assessment and risk management may be further complicated by the need to discover more detailed information than is usually available.

Genetically Engineered Organisms: Assessing Environmental and Human Health Effects gives credence to good science and to the notion that we do not have to argue about the ecological and human health effects of genetic engineering. Instead, it supports the position that we can undertake the painstaking science necessary to identify and understand those effects.

Written by researchers who have done cutting edge research in disciplines such as botany, entomology, plant pathology, and other agricultural and environmental sciences, this book elaborates critical research on pollen movement, spread of transgenes in natural communities, fitness effects, resistance development, and unpredicted impacts on target and non-target organisms. These topics are explored in contexts ranging from Bt corn events and viral resistant oats to transgenic salmon and altered malarial vectors. Many chapters address theoretical and informational gaps that research presents to questions of biosafety, and some offer historical insights into factors that may affect risk assessment and risk management decision-making at the community, national, and international levels.

Zielgruppe

Ecologists, botanists, crop scientists, public policy personnel, entomologists, environmental toxicologists, consultants, researchers, and healthcare personnel

Autoren/Hrsg.

Letourneau, Deborah K.

Burrows, Beth Elpern

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, B.E. Burrows
Variability and Uncertainty in Crop-to-wild Hybridization, T. Klinger
Factors Affecting the Spread of Resistant Arabidopsis thaliana
Populations, J. Bergelson and C.B. Purrington
Bt Crops: Benefits, Risks, and Non-target Effects on Wild Relatives,
D.K. Letourneau, J.A. Hagen, and G.S. Robinson
Resisting Resistance to Bt Corn, D.A. Andow
Ecological Risks of Transgenic Virus-resistant Crops, A.G. Power
Impacts of Genetically-engineered Crops on Non-target Herbivores:
Bt-corn and Monarch Butterflies as a Case Study, J. Losey, J.
Obrycki, and R.A. Hufbauer
Transgenic Host Plant Resistance and Non-target Effects, A. Hilbeck
Release, Persistence, and Biological Activity in Soil of Insecticidal
Proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis, G. Stotsky
Survival, Persistence, Transfer: The Fate of Genetically Modified
Microorganisms and Recombinant DNA in Different
Environments, B. Tappeser, M. Jäger, and C. Eckelkamp
The Spread of Genetic Constructs in Natural Insect Populations,
H.R. Braig and G. Yan
Ecological and Community Considerations in Engineering Arthropods
to Suppress Vector-borne Disease, A. Spielman, J.C. Beier,
and A.E. Kiszewski
Environmental Risks of Genetically Engineered Vaccines, T. Traavik
Methods to Assess Ecological Risks of Transgenic Fish Releases,
W,M. Muir and R.D Howard
Controversies in Designing Useful Ecological Assessments of
Genetically Engineered Organisms, A.R. Kapuscinski