Keith Redenbaugh

Safety Assessment of Genetically Engineered Fruits and Vegetables (eBook, ePUB)

A Case Study of the Flavr Savr Tomato

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Use of genetically engineered plants for food production has raised many questions about food safety. Scientists, environmentalists, and government regulators have debated safety issues since the advent of genetic engineering.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040211571
• Artikelnr.: 72538520

Autorenporträt

Keith Redenbaugh

Inhaltsangabe

Overview. Request for Advisory Opinion. FOOD SAFETY. IDENTITY OF FLAVR
SAVRÔ TOMATO. Common or Usual Name. Formal Name. Synonyms and Tradenames.
Chemical Formulae and Molecular Weights. Composition of Mixtures. Purity
and Specifications. Methods of Analysis of FLAVR SAVR(TM) Tomatoes.
Description of Manufacturing Process. Appendix A-1: Variation in the
Physical, Nutritional, and Chemical Composition of Tomatoes. Appendix A-2:
University of California, Davis, Report on Variation in Constituents of
Tomato. Appendix A-3: Methods of Genetic Modification and Their Use.
Appendix A-4: Molecular Characterization of Tomato Fruit Polygalacturonase.
Appendix A-5: Reduction of Polygalacturonase Activity in Tomato Fruit by
Antisense RNA. Appendix A-6: Agrobacterium as a Gene Transfer Agent for
Plants. Appendix A-7: Improved Binary Vectors for Agrobacterium-Mediated
Plant Transformation. Appendix A-8: Binary Vectors, pCGN1416 and pCGN1436,
Containing the FLAVR SAVR(TM) Gene. Appendix A-9: Nucleotide Sequence of
the T-DNA Region of pCGN1436. Appendix A-10: Efficient Transfer of a
Glyphosate Tolerance Gene into Tomato Using a Binary Agrobacterium
tumefaciens Vector. Appendix A-11: Tomato Transformation and Regeneration
with pCGN1436. Appendix A-12: Comparison of Agrobacterium-Mediated
Transformation to Classical Breeding. Appendix A-13: Control of Fruit
Ripening. USES OF FLAVR SAVRÔ Tomato. Introduction to Tomato. Current
Uses-Processing and Fresh Market Tomatoes. Proposed Use-FLAVR SAVR(TM)
Tomatoes. Use Levels. Fate in Foods. Human Estimated Daily Intake (EDI) of
FLAVR SAVR(TM) Tomato. Background Exposure to Components of the FLAVR
SAVR(TM) Tomato. Labeling. Appendix B-1: Fresh Market Tomatoes.
Agricultural Statistics 1990. Appendix B-2: Processing Tomatoes. Production
Statistics. Appendix B-3: A Complete Course in Canning. Appendix B-4
Commercial Processing of Tomatoes. INTENDED TECHNICAL EFFECT OF FLAVR SAVRÔ
TOMATOES. Intended Technical Effect. Demonstration of Intended Technical
Effect. Min