Opposition to transgenic technologies: Ideology, interests and collective action frames

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 458-463

  Herring, Ronald J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CROP; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NATURAL SCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; FOOD, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PUBLIC OPINION;

EID: 43749087333     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2338     Document Type: Review

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