Genetically Modified Crops
Subtitle: Assessing Safety
Publisher: CRC
Published: September 12, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780748409136
Subjects: Occupational / industrial health & safety; Science; Science/Mathematics; Agriculture - Crop Science; Biotechnology; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Technology / Agriculture & Animal Husbandry; Crops; Genetic engineering; Transgenic plants
First sentence: Genetic modification, otherwise referred to as recombinant DNA (rDNA) technology or gene-splicing, has proven to be a more precise, predictable and better understood method for the manipulation of genetic material than previously attained through conventional plant breeding.