Needs for and environmental risks from transgenic crops in the developing world

New Biotechnology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 522-527

  Gressel, Jonathan ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROP PRODUCTION; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; GLASS CEILING; PARASITIC WEEDS; POSTHARVEST; PUBLIC SECTOR; TOXIC HEAVY METALS; TRANS-GENES; TRANSGENIC CROPS; TRANSGENIC GENE; TRANSGENICS; VIRAL DISEASE;

CROPS; CULTIVATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEAVY METALS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

GENES;

MINERAL;

BARLEY; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOSAFETY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CROP PRODUCTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENERGY CROP; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INSECT; MILLET; MOTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RICE; SORGHUM; STEM BORER; TRANSGENIC CROP; WEED; WEEVIL; WHEAT; WITCHWEED;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; INSECTS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT WEEDS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RISK; TRANSGENES;

HEXAPODA; HORDEUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 78649522336     PISSN: 18716784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2010.05.015     Document Type: Review

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