Genetically Modified Planet: Environmental Impacts of Genetically Engineered Plants / Edition 1

by C. Neal Stewart

Overview

Genetically modified plants are currently causing controversy worldwide; a great deal has been written about their supposed environmental effects. However, the newspaper headlines and public debates often provide a level of reasoning akin to "this is your brain on genetically modified corn," which is to say, they exclude or exaggerate the actual scientific research on the impacts of these plants. Genetically Modified Planet goes beyond the rhetoric to investigate for concerned consumers the actual state of scientific research on genetically modified plants. Stewart argues that while there are indeed real and potential risks of growing engineered crops, there are also real and overwhelmingly positive environmental benefits.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195157451
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/19/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	9.36(w) x 6.46(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

University of Tennessee

Table of Contents

, C.Neal Stewart, Jr.1. Introduction Catastrophic Calamities and Clucking Cacophonies2. Crops and Weeds I'ts Hard to Be a Wild Thing When You're Domesticated3. Plant Biotechnology The Magic of Making GM Plants4. Gene Flow It's a Weed, It's a Transgene, It's Superweed!5. Contamination Transgenes in Mexican Corn?6. Killer Corn Monarch Butterfly Exterminators?7. Better Living through Biology Not Killing the Good Insects by Accident8. Bt Resistance Management Getting Off the Treadmill9. Swap Meet from Heck Trading Sequences between Viruses and Transgenes10. Superweeds Revisited Tall Stacks of Transgenes and Waffling Gene Flow11. Green and Greener Environmentalism, Agriculture, and GM Plants12. Futurama Greenetic Engineering for a Greener Tomorrow13. Conclusion Out of Right Field and into HomeReferencesIndex