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ReviewFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2015

Relevance of Crop Biology for Environmental Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified Crops in Africa.

Olalekan Akinbo, James F Hancock, Diran Makinde

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Review in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Olalekan AkinboNEPAD Agency African Biosafety Network of Expertise (ABNE) , Kampala , Uganda.
James F HancockDepartment of Horticulture, Michigan State University , East Lansing, MI , USA.
Diran MakindeNEPAD Agency African Biosafety Network of Expertise (ABNE) , Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Knowledge about the crop biology of economic crops in Africa is needed for regulators to accurately review dossiers and conduct comprehensive environmental risk assessments (ERAs). This information allows regulators to decide whether biotech crops present a risk to biodiversity, since crossing between domesticated crops and their wild relatives could affect the adaptations of the wild species. The criteria that should be used in the evaluation of African crops for ERA include growth habit, center of origin, center of genetic diversity, proximity of wild relatives, inter-fertility, mode of pollen dispersal, length of pollen viability, mating system, invasiveness, weediness, mode of propagation, mode of seed dispersal, and length of seed dormancy. In this paper, we discuss the crops being genetic engineered in Africa and describe the crop biology of those with native relatives.

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African cropsbiotech cropscrop biologyrisk assessment

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PMID26501055
PMCPMC4598851

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