Scientists evaluate potential environmental risks of transgenic crops

Transgenic Crops: An Environmental Assessment

Ecological versus ecotoxicological methods for assessing the environmental risks of transgenic crops

The potential environmental risks of cultivating transgenic crops have been the subject of much publicly funded research, which often seems to have increased controversy about transgenic crops, rather than assisted decision-makers. This stems from an ecological method of research that has several characteristics that limit its usefulness to decision-makers: a reluctance to define problems in re...

Application of an atmospheric gene flow model for assessing environmental risks from transgenic corn crops

Gene flow data from experiments under limited environmental conditions (e.g. wind speed and direction, atmospheric stability) have only provided limited information for gene flow risk management. It is necessary to apply models to predict the gene flow under a complete set of possible environmental conditions to inform farmers, seed companies, government agencies, and researchers about the risk...

Development and validation of atmospheric gene flow model for assessing environmental risks from transgenic corn crops

Pollen-mediated gene flow from genetically modified plants to non-target plants is a concern of crop growers, seed companies, the general public, and the scientific communities. Although there have been descriptive and mechanistic models to describe pollen dispersion, there has rarely been a comprehensive mechanistic model to dynamically simulate pollen release, dispersion, and deposition and t...

Needs for and environmental risks from transgenic crops in the developing world.

The developing world has many unique constraints to crop production and, lacking inputs, they are best overcome if solutions are seed borne. Classical breeding cannot overcome many of these constraints because the species have attained a 'genetic glass ceiling', the genes are not available within the species. Transgenics can supply the genes, but typically not as 'hand me down genes' from the d...