Genetically Engineered Organisms
Subtitle: Assessing Environmental and Human Health Effects
Contributors: Deborah K. Letourneau (Editor); Beth Elpern Burrows (Editor)
Publisher: CRC
Published: September 26, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780849304392
Subjects: Biochemistry; Environmental factors; Genetic Engineering; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Environmental Health; Science; Transgenic organisms; Science/Mathematics; Risk assessment; Biotechnology; Ecology; Nature / Ecology; Health Care Issues
First sentence: Spontaneous hybridization is known to occur between conventional crops and their wild relatives, and the introgression of crop genes into populations of related wild plants has been demonstrated for several crop-wild pairs.