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Title Green gene technology : research in an area of social conflict / volume editors, Armin Fiechter, Christof Sautter ; with contributions by P. Aerni [and others]
Published Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 287 pages) : illustrations
Series Advances in biochemical engineering/biotechnology ; 107
Advances in biochemical engineering/biotechnology ; 107.
Contents The gap between science and perception : the case of plant biotechnology in Europe / A. Einsele -- Biotechnology patenting policy in the European Union, as exemplified by the development of Germany / A. Schrell, H. Bauser, H. Brunner -- Bioscience, bioinnovations, and bioethics / M. Leisola -- Genetically modified organisms in the United States : implementations, concerns, and public perception / M.P. Oeschger, C.E. Silva -- Agricultural biotechnology and its contribution to the global knowledge economy / P. Aerni -- Exploration and Swiss field-testing of a viral gene for specific quantitative resistance against smuts and bunts in wheats / T. Schlaich [and others] -- Recombinant DNA technology in apple / C. Gessler, A. Patocchi -- Prospects for biopolymer production in plants / J.B. van Beilen, Y. Poirier -- Plastoglobule lipid bodies : their functions in chloroplasts and their potential for applications / F. Kessler, P.-A. Vidi -- Genetic and ecological consequences of transgene flow to the wild flora / F. Felber [and others] -- Assessing effects of transgenic crops on soil microbial communities / F. Widmer -- Ecological impacts of genetically modified crops : ten years of field research and commercial cultivation / O. Sanvido, J. Romeis, F. Bigler
Summary Greengenetechnology(GGT), understoodasapartofmodernbiotechnology, has been on a steady, triumphal progression over the last ten years (ISAAA 2007, see thecontribution byEinsele in thisissue). This volume, jointly edited byProf. Fiechterandme, dealswithsomeactualscienti?candsocio-economic aspects with regard to genetically modi?ed plants (GMP). Worldwide more than 100 million hectares of agronomical land are covered by GMP. This - cludes some prominent industrialised Western countries like the USA and Canada, aseriesofthresholdcountrieslikeArgentina, Brazil, IndiaandChina, and a number of developing countries. Clearly, some of these countries have to deal with crop plant production and human nutrition in a very pragmatic way since, for example, India has to feed about a 1/5 of the world population on about 3% of the arable land. In contrast, the situation in Europe appears very different. Food supply is more than suf?cient and comparably inexp- sive. This surplus of food is on one hand convenient, since starvation has been largely unknown in Europe for about 50 years, with only comparatively few exceptions of socially peripheral individuals. On the other hand it makes the population careless about the future food supply. Even beyond mere food supply, Europe gained its culturalvalues fromitsagricultural success over the centuries. Asinglefarmerbecameabletofeedmoreandmorepeoplemaking them free towork outside of agriculture as a craftsman, artist, poet, scientist, engineer, mayor, administrativeof?cial, priest, philosopher, orsoldier-togive only a few examples. In the public perception this connection between agr- omyandculturalwelfareisnotsuf?cientlyappreciatedinEurope. Switzerland, geographically in the centre of Europe (although not a member of the pol- ical union) has the same cultural tradition, only somewhat shifted towards the more conservative mood commonto mountain populations
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Subject Plant biotechnology.
Plant genetic engineering.
Transgenic plants.
Green technology.
Biochemical engineering.
Bioengineering.
Biotechnology.
Plants, Genetically Modified
Public Opinion
Biotechnology
bioengineering.
Plant genetic engineering.
Plants, Genetically Modified -- Switzerland.
Public Opinion -- Switzerland.
Plant biotechnology.
Science des matériaux.
Chimie.
Transgenic plants
Green technology
Biotechnology
Bioengineering
Biochemical engineering
Plant biotechnology
Plant genetic engineering
SUBJECT Switzerland
Form Electronic book
Author Fiechter, A.
Sautter, Christof.
Aerni, P. (Philipp)
LC no. 2007922570
ISBN 9783540713210
3540713212
9783540713234
3540713239
9786610863594
6610863598