Can crop transgenes be kept on a leash?

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 99-106

  Marvier, Michelle ^a   Van Acker, Rene C ^b  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROP IMPROVEMENT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; GENE FLOW; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 14844295788     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3868516     Document Type: Review

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