Plant Biotechnology and Genetics: Principles, Techniques and Applications

&FOREWORD TO PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETICS An international (but widely unnoticed) race took place in the mid-1970s to un ...

things, in the lab) was to teach us humility. Considerable ingenuity was needed to figure out why the Bt gene refused to express ...

prepare for your various roles in meeting those challenges. Enjoy your travels through these chapters and beyond, and I sincerel ...

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&CONTRIBUTORS Detlef Bartsch, BVL, Bundesamt fu ̈r Verbraucherschhutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit (Federal Office of Consumer ...

Gregory Graff, Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture, Department of Plant Sciences, Plant Reproductive Biology B ...

&CHAPTER 1 Plant Agriculture: The Impact of Biotechnology GRAHAM BROOKES PG Economics Ltd, Frampton, Dorchester, United King ...

specific global socioeconomic impacts on farm income and environmental impacts with respect to pesticide usage and greenhouse ga ...

herbicide-tolerant soybean dominate, accounting for 58% of the total, followed by insect-resistant (largely Bt) maize and cotton ...

(55%: 47.4 million ha), followed by Argentina (16.93 million ha: 19% of the global total). The other main countries planting GM ...

GM-adopting countries. Since 1996, the soybean area and production in the leading soybean producing countries of the United Stat ...

Argentina, GM IR cotton in China, and a range of GM cultivars in the United States. It also illustrates the growing level of far ...

developed countries the cost is about 38% of the total farm income gain. Although circum- stances vary among countries, the high ...

†Savings in energy use are realized—associated mainly with less frequent aerial spraying. †There are savings in machinery use (f ...

1.4.1 Environmental Impacts from Changes in Insecticide and Herbicide Use Usually, changes in pesticide use with GM crops have t ...

GM crops have contributed to a significant reduction in the global environmental impact of production agriculture (Table 1.5). S ...

use decreased by 43 million kg and the environmental impact decreased because of reduced insecticide use (4.6%) and a switch to ...

1.4.2 Impact on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Reductions in the level of GHG emissions from GM crops are from two principal sou ...

normal tillage and reduced tillage, and these were incorporated in our analysis on how GM crop adoption has significantly facili ...

Table 1.8 summarizes the impact on GHG emissions associated with the planting of GM crops between 1996 and 2005. In 2005, the pe ...