Genetically Modified Organisms in Horticulture Symposium - Past, Present and Future : International Society for Horticultural Science/ B. Panis.

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Panis, B

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Acta Horticulturae ; 1124Publication details: New Delhi, India : Astral, 2020.Description: xi+114p.: ill.; 24 cmISBN:

9789388982511
9789462611283
9462611289

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DDC classification:

23 631.5233 PAN

Contents:

1. Plenary session 2. GMOs in horticulture: past, present and future 3. Regulation and biosafety 4. GMOs and the consumer 5. Policy paper

Summary: 'Increased adoption of GMOs across horticulture has the potential to deliver a number of benefits to society, including reduced chemical usage, with flow-on health and environmental benefits, improved drought resistance, reducing use of valuable water supplies and ensuring food security in time of drought, greater availability of high quality horticultural produce to consumers, conferring food security to vulnerable population and delivering economic and health benefits to consumers, increased productivity, helping to secure the economic future for horticultural producers around the world, improved nutrition through biofortification, and adding nutrients and vitamins to staple crops of people suffering from malnutrition in developing countries. It is a compendium of fifteen chapters written by noted experts in the field. It will be an essential to horticulturists, students, teachers, researchers as well as all those interested in GMOs in horticulture.'

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1. Plenary session 2. GMOs in horticulture: past, present and future 3. Regulation and biosafety 4. GMOs and the consumer 5. Policy paper

'Increased adoption of GMOs across horticulture has the potential to deliver a number of benefits to society, including reduced chemical usage, with flow-on health and environmental benefits, improved drought resistance, reducing use of valuable water supplies and ensuring food security in time of drought, greater availability of high quality horticultural produce to consumers, conferring food security to vulnerable population and delivering economic and health benefits to consumers, increased productivity, helping to secure the economic future for horticultural producers around the world, improved nutrition through biofortification, and adding nutrients and vitamins to staple crops of people suffering from malnutrition in developing countries. It is a compendium of fifteen chapters written by noted experts in the field. It will be an essential to horticulturists, students, teachers,
researchers as well as all those interested in GMOs in horticulture.'

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