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Towards the Third Millennium
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Proceedings of the International Symposium on Plant Genetic Engineering, December 6-10, 1999, Havana, Cuba
By
A.D. Arencibia, Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Havana City, Cuba
Reviews
Phytochemistry, Vol. 56, No. 115, G.P. Bolwell, University of London, UK
...This is a publication relating to a conference held in Havana, Cuba in December 1999. The book was published early in 2000 which is
commendable given the timing of the conference and ensures that this volume is timely and topical. It gives an accurate account of that
seminal meeting since the reviewer had the privilege to be present and be educated on the broader issues outside the excellent science
presented. These issues relating to the ethical, economic and risk to the environment of GM are now global. Yet, this was a meeting that
was a passionate reaffirmation of the reasons why this technology was developed in the first instance, global food security being major
among them. Some of the applications discussed have been already used in the debate against the detractors, including the now well publicised
work of Luis Herrera-Estrella in engineering aluminium resistance into crops to allow growth on marginal lands in poor countries. If
any phytochemists need reassurance on how to approach a debate with anti-GM lobbyists they can find much ammunition between the covers.
CAB Abstracts, A.D. Arencibia
...illustrates some of the potential benefits from plant biotechnology for the Third Millennium. ...All contributors are actively engaged
in research in plant genetic engineering and several are concerned directly with its commercial applications.
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