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The 10th International Symposium on the Biosafetyof Genetically Modified Organisms (ISBGMO), Wellington, New Zealand, November 2008*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2009

Jeremy Sweet
Jeremy Sweet*
Affiliation:
Sweet Environmental Consultants, 6 Green Street, Cambridge CB24 5JA, UK

Abstract

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The Symposium consisted of eight sessions of oral presentations as well as various workshops and poster sessions. This report reviews the presentations in the following sessions and discusses the main conclusions and issues arising from each session:

Session 1: Biosafety – experience and results

Session 2: Introgression, invasion and fitness

Session 3: Biotic and abiotic stress resistance

Session 4: GM animals

Session 5: Effects of GM crops on soil ecosystems

Session 7: Biocontainment methods

Session 8: Post market environmental monitoring

Abstracts of the presentations in these sessions are available at: http://www.isbgmo.info/assets_/isbgmo_symposium_handbook.pdf

Type
Research Article
Information
Environmental Biosafety Research , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , July 2009 , pp. 161 - 181
Copyright
© ISBR, EDP Sciences, 2009

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