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During the late 1990s a series of negative events occurred in the United Kingdom (UK) related to biotechnology. These … asymmetry hypothesis, such events ought to cause public trust in risk managers of biotechnology to decline rapidly and rebound …
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This paper reviews the tools applied in plant biotechnology and explores the prospects for biotechnology to generate … capacity to use the tools in developing countries is described. Plant biotechnology includes four primary sets of techniques … biological scientists hold there is no significance to the origin of DNA, this possibility has embroiled biotechnology in …
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This chapter serves to assess the quantity and impact of private agricultural research in developing countries, alongside the policies which affect that research. To provide context, an outline of the history, size and structure of private research presents data on research expenditures by...
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The recent revolution in the field of biotechnology has triggered off another round of controversy between the … and protocols in respect of genetic resources and biotechnology: genetic resources are treated as public goods, while … biotechnology is treated as a private good. Developing countries who claim ownership to large reserve of the earth's pool of genetic …
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The recent revolution in the field of biotechnology has triggered off another round of controversy between the … and protocols in respect of genetic resources and biotechnology: genetic resources are treated as public goods, while … biotechnology is treated as a private good. Developing countries who claim ownership to large reserve of the earth's pool of genetic …
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The responsibility for protecting U.S. agriculture from pests and diseases is assigned by the Federal Plant Pest Act (FPPA) to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the Department of Agriculture. The Plant Protection Act (Title 7 U.S.C. Sections 7701 et seq.) gives Aphis...
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and future developments; R&D and prospects for micro-algae biotechnology and genetic engineering; safety and regulatory …
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environmental restrictions related to logging. Forestry today is on the threshold of the widespread introduction of biotechnology … into its operational practices. In many cases, the biotechnology likely to be introduced is simply an extension of that … being utilized in agriculture, such as herbicide-tolerant genes. However, biotechnology in forestry also is developing …
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