Cisgenic crops : safety, legal and social issues

Cisgenic crops : safety, legal and social issues / Anurag Chaurasia, Chittaranjan Kole, editors.

This book is the first comprehensive compilation of existing knowledge on the impact of cisgenic crops on biodiversity, environment, and ecosystem. Strategies to create and access cisgenic crops, potential risks assessment, and legal implications across the globe (European Union, North and South Ame...

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Other Authors: Chaurasia, Anurag (Editor), Kole, Chittaranjan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2023]
Series:Concepts and strategies in plant sciences.
Subjects:
Crops > Genetics.
Plant breeding.
Crops > Genetics
Plant breeding
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface for the Volumes on Cisgenic Crops
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • 1 Cisgenic Crops: Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Environment
  • 1.1 Cisgenic Crops and Biodiversity
  • 1.1.1 Possible Positive Impacts of Cisgenic Crop Plants on Biodiversity
  • 1.1.2 Possible Negative Impacts of Cisgenic Crop Plants on Biodiversity
  • 1.1.3 Possible Impacts of Cisgenic Crop Plants on Biodiversity that Are Similar to the Impacts of Traditionally Bred Crop Plants, or Common Impacts of GMC that Could not Occur Through Cisgenesis
  • 1.2 Cisgenic Crops, Ecosystems, and Environment
  • 1.2.1 Possible Positive Impacts of Cisgenic Crop Plants on the Environment
  • 1.2.2 Possible Negative Impacts of Cisgenic Crop Plants on the Environment
  • 1.3 Regulatory Challenges for Cisgenic Crop Plants
  • 1.3.1 The Colombian Case
  • References
  • 2 Cisgenesis: A Promising Alternative Crop Improvement Technology for Biodiversity, Environment and Ecosystem Risks Associated with Transgenics
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Cisgenesis: A New Crop Improvement Technology
  • 2.3 The Impact of Transgenics on Biodiversity, the Environment and the Ecosystem
  • 2.4 Are Cisgenics Advantageous over Transgenics?
  • 2.5 Lists of Cisgenic Crops Developed so far
  • 2.6 Cisgenics Versus Transgenics: The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Experience
  • 2.7 Conclusion
  • References
  • 3 Social Acceptability of Cisgenic Plants: Public Perception, Consumer Preferences, and Legal Regulation
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Public Perception of Cisgenic Plants
  • 3.3 Consumer Acceptability of Cisgenic Plants
  • 3.4 Legal Regulation
  • 3.5 Discussion and Conclusions
  • References
  • 4 Elucidation and Acceptance-Scientific, Legal, and Ethical Aspects of Cisgenesis in Times of an Alleged Dwindling Faith in Science
  • References
  • 5 Consumer Evaluation of Novel Plant-Breeding Technologies: A Decision-Focused Research Agenda
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Critical Review of the Literature on Technology Acceptance
  • 5.2.1 The Origins and Evolution of Acceptance Research
  • 5.2.2 Exploring Variations in Individual Information Responsiveness
  • 5.3 Acceptance, Rejection, and the Deeper Context of Technology Evaluations
  • 5.4 Outlining a Decision-Focused Research Agenda for the Evaluation of NPBTs
  • 5.4.1 Heuristics, Values, and the Deeper Context of Valuation
  • 5.4.2 Disentangling the Deeper Context of Decision-Making
  • 5.4.3 Methods and Insights from Decision Neuroscience
  • 5.5 Conclusions
  • References
  • 6 Economic Considerations of Cisgenics as a Sub-Set of Genetically Modified Organisms
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 The Analysis of Public Attitudes Towards Cisgenics
  • 6.3 Potential Economic Impacts of Growing GMO Crops
  • 6.4 The Legislation on Genetically Modified Organisms European Versus the US Approach

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