Application of food and feed safety assessment principles to evaluate transgenic approaches to gene modulation in crops

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1773-1790

  Parrott, Wayne ^a   Chassy, Bruce ^b   Ligon, Jim ^c   Meyer, Linda ^d   Petrick, Jay ^e   Zhou, Junguo ^f   Herman, Rod ^g   Delaney, Bryan ^h   Levine, Marci ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c BAYER CROPSCIENCE   (United States)

^d SYNGENTA BIOTECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^e MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

^f JOHNSON AND JOHNSON PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^g DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC   (United States)

^h A DuPont Company   (United States)

ⁱ International Life Sciences Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetically modified crop (GM); ILSI; RNA interference (RNAi); Safety assessment; Small RNA; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

DNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLERGENICITY; CROSS REACTION; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD SAFETY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLOMICS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PEST RESISTANCE; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GENOME; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT YIELD; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIRAL PLANT DISEASE;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; DNA; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 77953536578     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2010.04.017     Document Type: Review

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