Welcome to FS 301 - Gentetically Modified Organisms: Environmental, Ethical, and Political Issues

Course Syllabus

Selected Publications:

• Ado A.W. and Khanna M. 2000. Environmental costs ad benefits of genetically modified crops: Implications for regulatory strategies


• Bhargava P.M. 2006. The social, moral ethical, legal and political implications of today's biological technologies: An Indian point of view


• Bock R. 2006. Plastid biotechnology: prospects for herbicide and insect resistance, metabolic engineering and molecular farming


• Burke D. 2004. GM foods and crops: what went wrong in the UK?


• Linda Castle, Gusui Wu and David McElroy. 2005. Agricultural input traits: past, present and future


• Chase-Dunn, Lara-Millan, Niemeyer. Biotechnology in the Global Political Economy


• Dale P.J. 1999. Public reactions and scientific responses to transgenic crops


• Daniell H., Streatfield S., Wycoff K. 2001. Medical molecular farming: production of antibodies, biopharmaceuticals and edible vaccines in plants


• Daniell H and Dhingra A. 2002. Multigene engineering: dawn of an exciting new era in biotechnology


• Dunwell J.M. 1999. Transgenic approaches to crop improvement


• Ferber D. 1999. GM crops in the cross-hairs


• Golds T.J., Eibl C., Koop H.U.. Green Factory: Recombinant Protein Production in Chloroplasts


• Ingmar von Homeyer. Political constraints in resolving international disputes on trade and sustainable development


• Johns T., Eyzaguirre P.B. 2006. Biofortification , biodiversity and diet: A search for complementary applications against poverty and malnutrition


• Josling T. and Babinard J. 1999. The Political economy of GMOs" Emerging disputees over food safety, the environment and biotechnology


• Mason H.S., Arntzen C.J.. Transgenic plants as vaccine production systems


• Mayer S. and Stirling A. 2004. GM crops: good or bad?


• Messmore M., Paruszkiewicz K., Kujala E., Malek M. 2007. Genetically Modified Foods: creating a sustainable Africa


• Mollet B., Niderberger P., Petiard V. 2007. Novel tomato flavours introduced by plastidial terpenoid pathway engineering


• Oeschger M., Silva C. 2007. Genetically Modified Organisms in the United States: Implementation, Concerns, and Public Perception


• Olempska-Beer Z.S., Merker R.I., Ditto M.D., DiNovi M.J. 2006. Food-processing enzymes from recombinant microorganisms - a review


• Parker I.M. and Kareiva P. (1996) Assessing the reisks of invasion for genetically engineered plants: acceptable evidence and reasonable doubt


• Ruhlman T., Daniell H. 2007. Plastid Pathways


• Selgrade M.J.K., Kiimber I., Goldman L., Germolec D.R. 2003. Assessment of allergenic potential of genetically modified foods: an agenda for future research


• Ververidis F. et al. Biotechnology of flavonoids and other phenylpropanoid-derived natural products. Part II: Reconstruction of multienzyme pathways in plants and microbes


• Wijffels R.H. 2007. Potential of sponges and microalgae for marine biotechnology