General Information
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Publications and proceedings on Environmental Risk Assessment issued by ILSI’s Center for Environmental Risk Assessment
- Invasiveness / Weediness
- Weediness and gene flow – Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)
- Invasiveness of transgenic vs. exotic plant species: how useful is the analogy?(pdf) – Proceedings from Oregon State University, 2001, 6 pgs
- Pest Resistance
- Resistance risk assessment and management – GMO environmental risk assessment
- Insect resistance management in GM crops: Past, present and future – Nature biotechnology, 2005: 23 (1), pp 57-62.
- Non-target Effects
- Non-target species and biodiversity impacts – GMO environmental risk assessment
- Gene Flow
- Gene Flow and its consequences – GMO Environmental Risk Assessment.
- Out-crossing and Gene flow – GMO Compass.
- Which crops could spread their genes? – GMO Compass.
- Gene transfer from plants to microorganisms – GMO compass.
- Environmental Risk Assessment
- Assessment of risk of insect resistant transgenic crops to non-target Arthropods – Nature Biotechnology, 2008: 26, pp 203 – 208.
- Current procedures for applying risk assessment – An initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 1997.
- Journal on environmental biosafety research – Official Journal of the International Society for Biosafety Research (ISBR).
- Consensus document on general information concerning the biosafety of crop plants made virus resistant through coat protein gene-mediated protection – Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), 1996, 54 pgs
Crop Biology Documents
Food Safety Information for African Crops »
- Bananas and plantains crop biology document– National Agricultural Research Organization, 2007, 19 pgs.
- Beans – Phaseomics Global Initiative
- Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz): Reproductive biology and practices for confinement of experimental field trials – Program for Biosafety Systems (PBS), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 2005, 25 pgs.
- Groundnuts, Arachis hypogaea – Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), 2004, 32 pgs.
- Millet: Domestication, biology and cultivation of foxtail and proso Millet – Purdue University, 1996.
- Finger millet – Lost crops of Africa: Volume I: Grains (1996)
- Pearl millet – Lost crops of Africa: Volume I: Grains (1996)
- Genetic enhancement of pearl millet and sorghum for the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa – Genome journal, 1999: 42: 617–628.
- Sorghum: The importance of biosafety in the deployment of private transgenic sorghums in the environment – African Crop Science Journal, 1995: 3 (2), pp 131-133.
- Genetic enhancement of pearl millet and sorghum for the Semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa – Genome Journal, 1999: 42, pp 617–628.
- Sweet potato: Uses, ecology and cultivation of Ipomoea batatas (Sweet Potato) – Purdue University, 1983
- Yams: harnessing modern biotechnology for tropical tuber crop improvement: Yam (Dioscorea spp.) molecular breeding – African journal of biotechnology, 2003: 2 (12), pp. 478-485