* It has long been recognized that any successful sustainable development strategy has to strike a balance between the interests of trade and concern for the environment. However, these sometimes conflicting imperatives have been, and remain, a potential source of conflict in international political economy. The World Trade Organization (WTO), often accused of insensitivity to environmental pro...

Both cisgenesis and transgenesis are plant breeding techniques that can be used to introduce new genes into plant genomes. However, transgenesis uses gene(s) from a non-plant organism or from a donor plant that is sexually incompatible with the recipient plant while cisgenesis involves the introduction of gene(s) from a crossable--sexually compatible--plant. Traditional breeding techniques coul...

IN SEPTEMBER 2012, EUROPE WAS SHOCKED BY A PUBLICATION, FROM CAEN UNIVERSITY IN FRANCE, claiming that rats fed for 2 years with transgenic herbicide-resistant corn suffered from tumors. Even though the results have been criticized as fl awed,* this research continues to be hailed as a confi rmation that genetically modifi ed organisms (GMOs) are intrinsically dangerous. The European Union (EU) ...

Detection of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food is an important issue for all the subjects involved in food control and customer’s right. Due to the increasing number of GMOs imported to Iran during the past few years, it has become necessary to screen the products in order to determine the identity of the consumed daily foodstuffs. In this study, following extraction of genomic DNA ...

Detection of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food is an important issue for all the subjects involved in food control and customer’s right. Due to the increasing number of GMOs imported to Iran during the past few years, it has become necessary to screen the products in order to determine the identity of the consumed daily foodstuffs. In this study, following extraction of genomic DNA ...