Virus-Resistant Transgenic Plants: Potential Ecological Impact [electronic resource] /

1 Virus Evolution; the Past, a Window on the Future? -- 2 Systematic Search for Recombination Events in Plant Viruses and Viroids -- 3 Different Mechanisms of Homologous and Nonhomologous Recombination in Brome Mosaic Virus, a Model Plant RNA Virus -- 4 Studies on RNA Recombination in vivo and in vitro -- 5 Significance of RNA Recombination in Capsid Protein-Mediated Virus-Resistant Transgenic Plants -- 6 Transgenic Plants Expressing Viral Sequences Create a Favourable Environment for Recombination Between Viral Sequences -- 7 Behavior of Cucumovirus Pseudorecombinant and Recombinant Strains in Solanaceous Hosts -- 8 Recombination Between Cauliflower Mosaic Virus and Transgenic Plants that Contain CaMV Transgenes: Influence of Selection Pressure on Isolation of Recombinants -- 9 Synergy of Virus Accumulation and Pathology in Transgenic Plants Expressing Viral Sequences -- 10 Risk Assessment of Transgenic Plants Expressing the Coat Protein Gene of Plum Pox Potyvirus -- 11 Mixed Infections and Genetic Exchange Occur in Natural Populations of Cucumber Mosaic Cucumovirus -- 12 The Potential of a Beneficial Satellite RNA of Cucumber Mosaic Virus to Acquire Deleterious Functions: Nature Versus Greenhouses -- 13 Ecological Impact of Transgenic Virus-Resistance in Crop, Weed, and Wild Plant Populations (Due to Potential Alterations of Plant Invasiveness) -- 14 Risk Assessment of Gene Flow Associated with the Release of Virus-Resistant Transgenic Crop Plants -- 15 Concluding Remarks and Recommendations -- Index of Viruses -- Index of Plants.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Tepfer, Mark. editor., Balázs, Ervin. editor., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1997
Subjects:	Chemistry., Genetic engineering., Agriculture., Cell biology., Forestry., Plant science., Botany., Plant pathology., Genetic Engineering., Plant Pathology., Plant Sciences., Cell Biology.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03506-1
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