Green Gene Technology Research in an Area of Social Conflict /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fiechter, Armin (Editor), Sautter, Christof (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, 107
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biotechnology.; Agriculture.; Plant biochemistry.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Plant genetics.; Life Sciences.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.; Plant Biochemistry.

Table of Contents:

• 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.