Genetically Modified Plants: Assessing Safety and Managing Risk

Genetically Modified Plants, Second Edition, provides an updated roadmap and science-based methodology for assessing the safety of genetic modification technologies, as well as risk assessment approaches from regulators across different agroecosystems. This new edition also includes expanded coverage of technologies used in plant improvement, such as RNA-dependent DNA methylation, reverse breeding, agroinfiltration, and gene-editing technologies such as CRISPR and TALENS. This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in crop improvement, including students and researchers, practitioners in regulatory agencies, and policymakers involved in plant biotechnology risk assessment.

Provides a roadmap for assessing the safety of genetically modified plantsExpands coverage of technologies used in plant improvement, such as RNA-dependent DNA methylation, Reverse Breeding and Agro-infiltrationIntroduces new chapters addressing the potential applications and associated risks of new gene editing technologies such as CRISPR and TALENS

Preface

List of abbreviations

1. Setting the Context: Agriculture and Crop/Food Sustainability

2. Technologies for Crop Improvement

3. Current Progress and Future Needs of Genetically Modified Plants

4. Principles of Risk Assessment

5. Evolution of Regulatory Systems and National Biosafety Frameworks

6. Molecular Characterization of GM plants

7. Risk Assessment and Management: Human and Animal Health

8. Risk Assessment and Management: Environment

9. Risk Perception and Public Attitudes to GM

10. The Future

Appendix A: Glossary

Appendix B: Climate Change and Global Warming

Appendix C: Details of Major Biotic Constraints

Appendix D: Genetics and Gene Expression

Appendix E: Mutations

Appendix F: Information required on an application for environmental release of a GMO

Appendix G: GM food labeling in different countries

Appendix H: Differences in public uptake of GM foods