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GM crops, modern agriculture and the environment
Presentations from a Royal Society meeting are summarised under the following headings: The impact of conventional agriculture, Gene flow: the great e...
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Safety assessment of foods derived from genetically modified crops
The pre-market safety assessment of foods derived from genetically modified crops is carried out according to the consensus approach of "substantial ...
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Molecular marker-aided approaches for sorghum improvement
Sorghum genetic improvement through classical approaches has been slow in addressing the major loss causing and yield-destabilizing traits like suscep...
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Guidelines on information requirements for import and release of invertebrate biological control age
Several international documents have been published in recent years with the objective of providing guidance to industry, biocontrol practitioners and...
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Dietary strategies for increasing docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) concent
A review was made of the literature concerning the metabolism of fatty acids in the dairy cow, and the potential of increasing the content of the esse...
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Salmonella control in pork: effect of animal nutrition and feeding.
The control of Salmonella prevalence in pork production is important from food safety, trading and animal health standpoints. Contamination by Salmone...
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What we have learnt on impacts of Bt cotton on non-target organisms in China.
Bt transgenic cotton, containing a Bacillus thuringiensis toxin gene, has been widely planted in cotton growing areas in China since 1997. One of the...
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In vitro selection for disease resistance in plants - an alternative to genetic engineering.
Plant cell culture provides a unique opportunity to manipulate morphogenesis in a controlled environment, thus providing crop improvement with a pow...
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The biosafety of molecular farming in plants.
Molecular farming in plants provides an inexpensive and convenient way to produce biopharmaceutical molecules and other valuable proteins on a large ...
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Excision of selectable marker genes from transgenic plants by site-specific DNA recombination.
Current genetic transformation methods have relatively low efficiencies, e.g. in the successful model species Arabidopsis thaliana, the transformation...
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