Monitoring and Surveillance of Genetically Modified Higher Plants. Guidelines for Procedures and Analysis of Environmental Effects
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Author(s): G. Kjellsson and M. Strandberg
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3764362278
Format: softback
119pp
Price: SFr 68.00
Review Date: 27 March 2001
Review: This book suggests guidelines for monitoring and surveillance of genetically modified higher plants (GMHPs). Now that GMHPs are widely grown in North America and new GM products will probably soon be available for cultivation in Europe, monitoring and surveillance programmes need to be put in place to identify any negative effects on the environment. The difficulties of such monitoring are great, due to the complex interactions between organisms and the variability in responses. These guidelines provide information on the basic concepts and tools that are available when planning the monitoring of GMHPs. It not only covers the objectives and procedures for monitoring and surveying present and new types of GM plants, including herbicide tolerance, insect resistance and changing agronomic performance, but also the detection of GM plant dispersal and hybridisation, agricultural use and large-scale effects, habitat selection and community invasability, baseline definition and the time perspective, effects on ecosystems, vegetation and organism groups, sampling designs, and data analysis and relevant statistical methods.