Monitoring and surveillance of genetically modified higher plants Guidelines for procedures and analysis of environmental effects

Monitoring and surveillance of genetically modified higher plants Guidelines for procedures and analysis of environmental effects / edited by Gösta Kjellson, Morten Strandberg.

There is an urgent need for guidelines for monitoring of genetically modified higher plants, GMHP. Biotech crops are now cultivated in large scale in North America and elsewhere. In Europe, new genetically modified (GM) products will probably be placed on the market soon and made available of any ne...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kjellson, Gösta (Editor), Strandberg, Morten (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2001.
Edition:1st ed. 2001.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Genetic engineering.
Agriculture.
Biochemistry.
Plant breeding.
Medicine.
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Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 How to use this book
  • 1.2 Biotechnology and new GM crops placed on the market
  • 1.3 Risk assessment, monitoring and the EU directives
  • 2 Environmental concerns and concepts
  • 2.1 The risk of GMHP invasion
  • 2.2 Ecological effects of GMHP
  • 2.3 Concepts and definitions
  • 2.4 List of relevant links for information on monitoring of GMHP
  • 3 Monitoring and surveillance of GMHP dispersal and effects
  • 3.1 Objectives for monitoring programs
  • 3.2 Scheme for the process of monitoring GMHP
  • 3.3 Approaches to monitoring
  • 3.4 Factors that may make a community invasible
  • 3.5 Suggestions for a tripartite monitoring program
  • 3.6 Data analysis and evaluation of results
  • 3.7 Extent of monitoring
  • 3.8 Reassessment of established monitoring procedures
  • 4 Perspectives of habitat selection
  • 4.1 Background for habitat selection in Denmark and EU
  • 4.2 Important factors for selection of exposed areas
  • 4.3 Background for habitat selection in relation to GMHP-monitoring
  • 4.4 Which habitats should be monitored?
  • 4.5 General changes affecting plants and other organisms
  • 4.6 Baseline definition
  • 5 Agricultural use and effects of GMHP
  • 5.1 Detection of adverse effects in cultivated fields
  • 5.2 Effects and monitoring of GM crops used in large-scale farming
  • 6 Dispersal of GMHP and transgenes
  • 6.1 Detection of GMHP dispersal and invasion
  • 6.2 Detection of hybridisation and transgene dispersal
  • 7 Effect identification and detection
  • 7.1 Effect types, identification and assessment
  • 7.2 Assessment of effects on vegetation, ecosystem structure and function
  • 7.3 Detection of effects on soil organisms
  • 7.4 Detection of effects on aboveground organisms
  • 7.5 Sampling designs and data analysis methods
  • 8 Data analysis and evaluation
  • 8.1 Statistical methods and tools
  • 8.2 Use of modelling to assist monitoring
  • 8.3 Evaluation, information management and policy making
  • 9 Conclusions and recommendations
  • 10 References
  • 11 Subject index.

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