General Information
- Policy Brief on Environmental Biosafety Issues in Biosafety and Biotechnology
- Introduction
- Environmental Impacts of Agriculture
- Environmental Issues Related to Genetically Modified Crops
- Goals of Environmental Risk Assessment
- Greenhouse Trial of Genetically Modified Crops: Q & A
- Confined Field Trials: Q & A
- Laboratory Biosafety: Q & A
Links
Publications and proceedings on Environmental Risk Assessment issued by ILSI’s Center for Environmental Risk Assessment
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.
- Insect resistance to transgenic Bt crops: lessons from the laboratory and field – Journal economic entomology, 2003:96 (4), pp. 1031–103
- 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
- Points to consider for consensus documents on the biology of cultivated plants – Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), 2006, 24 pgs.
- 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.
- Cowpea: Challenges and opportunities for enhancing sustainable cowpea production – International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria, 2002.
- Cotton: Biology of Gossypium hirsutum L. (Cotton) – AgBio.
- Consensus document on compositional considerations for new varieties of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense): key food and feed nutrients and anti-nutrients – Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), 2004, 32 pgs
- Groundnuts, Arachis hypogaea – Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), 2004, 32 pgs.
- Maize: Summary of crop biology document of Maize – AgBio.
- Consensus document on the biology of Zea mays (Maize) – Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), 2006, 49 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.
- Potato: Consensus document on the biology of Solanum tuberosum (Potato) – Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), 1997, 38 pgs.
- Rice: Consensus document on the biology of Oryza sativa (Rice) – Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), 1999, 52 pgs.11
- 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