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creators_name: Sharma, K K
creators_name: Sharma, H C
creators_name: Seetharama, N
creators_name: Ortiz, R
icrisatcreators_name: Sharma, K K
icrisatcreators_name: Sharma, H C
icrisatcreators_name: Seetharama, N
icrisatcreators_name: Ortiz, R
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
country: India
title: Development and deployment of transgenic plants: Biosafety considerations 
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.13
full_text_status: restricted
keywords: environmental protection, genetic transformation, recombinant DNA, transgenic plants.
note: We greatfully acknowledge financial support from the Directorate General International Cooperation (DGIC), Belgium 
abstract: Recombinant DNA technology has great potential to enhance and extend the advantages of conventional plant breeding, and increase the production and productivity of crops to meet the increasing demand for food and food products in the future. Judicious application of this technology provides opportunities for alleviating some of the major constraints to crop productivity under subsistence farming conditions in the developing countries. Considerable progress has been made in developing strategies for the production and deployment of transgenic crops. However, biosafety concerns have been raised regarding the deployment and release of genetically engineered plants. This debate has divided the farming and consumer communities over acceptability of genetically modified foods. There is a need for a thorough investigation regarding the fate of transgenic plants in the environment, and their interaction with wild relatives and non-target organisms. The production and release of transgenic plants should be based on experience and sound scientific reasoning. The regulatory requirements for deployment of transgenic crops should be streamlined and harmonized, in order to achieve sustainable food production, poverty reduction, and environmental protection in resource-poor countries in the semi-arid tropics.
date: 2002
date_type: published
publication: In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Plant
volume: 38
number: 2
publisher: Springer
pagerange: 106-115
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1054-5476
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/IVP2001268
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funders: Directorate General International Cooperation(Belgium)
citation:   Sharma, K K and Sharma, H C and Seetharama, N and Ortiz, R  (2002) Development and deployment of transgenic plants: Biosafety considerations.  In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Plant, 38 (2).  pp. 106-115.  ISSN 1054-5476     
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