Genetically Modified Plants: Assessing Safety and Managing Risk

by Graham Head, Roger Hull, George T Tzotzos, et al.

A transgenic organism is a plant, animal, bacterium, or other living organism that has had a foreign gene added to it by means of genetic engineering. Transgenic plants can arise by natural movement of genes between species, by cross-pollination based hybridization between different plant species (which is a common event in flowering plant evolution), or by laboratory manipulations by artificial insertion of genes from another species. Methods used...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0123741068
• ISBN13: 9780123741066
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"