Japanese controversies over transgenic crop regulation

Science

Volumn 305, Issue 5690, 2004, Pages 1572-

  Watanabe, Kazuo N ^a,b   Taeb, Mohammad ^c   Okusu, Haruko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b International Plant Genetic Resources Institute Maccarese   (Italy)

^c UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BIOSAFETY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONSENSUS; CONSUMER; DOCUMENTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP; GOVERNMENT; INFORMED CONSENT; JAPAN; LAW; NONHUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSGENIC PLANT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CROP; GENETICS; LEGAL ASPECT; PUBLIC OPINION;

AGRICULTURE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; JAPAN; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PUBLIC OPINION;

EID: 19444377817     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1100734     Document Type: Short Survey

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20. K.N.W. acknowledges the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, grant no. JSPS-RFTF-00L01602.