Quantifying the introgressive hybridisation propensity between transgenic oilseed rape and its wild/weedy relatives

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 149, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 303-322

  Devos, Yann ^a   de Schrijver, Adinda ^b   Reheul, Dirk ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biosafety; Genetic engineering; Geographic information system; Hybridisation; Introgression; Oilseed rape; Post market environmental monitoring; Risk assessment; Vertical gene flow; Wild weedy relatives

Indexed keywords

BIOSAFETY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HYBRIDISATION; INTROGRESSION; OILSEED RAPE; POST-MARKET ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; VERTICAL GENE FLOW; WILD/WEEDY RELATIVES;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SURVEYS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

BIOMONITORING; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; GIS; HYBRIDIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BELGIUM; BRASSICA NAPUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TRANSGENES;

BRASSICA JUNCEA; BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA RAPA; DIPLOTAXIS TENUIFOLIA; HIRSCHFELDIA INCANA; RAPHANUS RAPHANISTRUM; SINAPIS ARVENSIS;

EID: 58549101325     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0204-y     Document Type: Article

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