Green Gene Technology: Research in an Area of Social Conflict: Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, cartea 107

The Gap between Science and Perception: The Case of Plant Biotechnology in Europe.- Biotechnology Patenting Policy in the European Union – as Exemplified by the Development in Germany.- Bioscience, Bioinnovations, and Bioethics.- Genetically Modified Organisms in the United States: Implementation, Concerns, and Public Perception.- Agricultural Biotechnology and its Contribution to the Global Knowledge Economy.- Exploration and Swiss Field-Testing of a Viral Gene for Specific Quantitative Resistance Against Smuts and Bunts in Wheat.- Recombinant DNA Technology in Apple.- Prospects for Biopolymer Production in Plants.- Plastoglobule Lipid Bodies: their Functions in Chloroplasts and their Potential for Applications.- Genetic and Ecological Consequences of Transgene Flow to the Wild Flora.- Assessing Effects of Transgenic Crops on Soil Microbial Communities.- Ecological Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops: Ten Years of Field Research and Commercial Cultivation.

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