Assessing environmental risks of transgenic plants
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REV I EWS AND SYNTHESES Assessing environmental risks of transgenic plants
D. A. Andow* and Claudia Zwahlen Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, 219 Hodson Hall, St Paul, MN 55108, USA *Correspondence: E-mail: [email protected] Abstract By the end of the 1980s, a broad consensus had developed that there were potential environmental risks of transgenic plants requiring assessment and that this assessment must be done on a case-by-case basis, taking into acco...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology Letters
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1461-023X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00846.x