The bioengineered forest
Subtitle: challenges for science and society
By: edited by Steven H. Strauss and H.D. (Toby) Bradshaw.
Contributors: Strauss, Steven H., 1955-; Bradshaw, H. David.
Publisher: Resources For the Future
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Forestry biotechnology; Trees -- Biotechnology; Forest products -- Biotechnology
Notes: A revised and updated selection of papers from a symposium held July 2001 in Stevenson, Wash., plus additional papers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I: Economic and technological choices; title: Future forests: environmental and social contexts for forest biotechnologies / Hal Salwasser; title: Biotechnology and the forest products industry / Alan A. Lucier, Maud Hinchee, and Tex B. McCullough; title: Biotechnology and the global wood supply / Roger A. Sedjo; title: Accomplishments and challenges in genetic engineering of forest trees / Rick Meilan, ... [et al.]; title: Exotic pines and eucalypts: perspectives on risks of transgenic plantations / Rowland D. Burdon and Christian Walter; title: Tree biotechnology in the twenty-first century: transforming trees in the light of comparative genomics / Steven H. Strauss and Amy M. Brunner; title: II: Ethical, social, and ecological caveats; title: The ethics of molecular silviculture / Paul B. Thompson; title: Will the marketplace see the sustainable forest for the transgenic trees? / Don S. Doering; title: Environmental and social aspects of the intensive plantation/reserve debate / Sharon T. Friedman and Susan Charnley; title: Have you got a license for that tree? (and can you afford to use it?) / Nancy S. Bryson, Steven P. Quarles, and Richard J. Mannix; title: Invasiveness of transgenic versus exotic plant species: how useful is the analogy? / James F. Hancock and Karen Hokanson; title: Potential impacts of genetically modified trees on biodiversity of forestry plantations: a global perspective / Brian Johnson and Keith Kirby; title: Transgenic resistance in short-rotation plantation trees: benefits, risks, integration with multiple tactics, and the need to balance the scales / Kenneth F. Raffa.