Environmental safety assessment of plants expressing RNAi for pest control

Salvatore Arpaia, Olivier Christiaens, Paul Henning Krogh, Kimberly M. Parker, Jeremy B. Sweet

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the importance of problem formulation (PF) in the environmental risk assessment process, which involves the identification of the possible hazards associated with a stressor, i.e. transgenic RNAi expressing plants or RNAi-based pesticides. The risk hypotheses developed from the PF that can be used to hypothesize pathways to risk and support the design of experimental studies to determine environmental impacts are also discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRNAi for Plant Improvement and Protection
EditorsBruno Mezzetti, Jeremy Sweet, Lorenzo Burgos
Number of pages14
Place of publicationWallingford
PublisherCABI Publishing
Publication dateMar 2021
Pages117-130
Chapter12
ISBN (Print)9781789248890
ISBN (Electronic)9781789248913, 9781789248806
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2021

Keywords

  • Biosafety
  • Environmental impact
  • Gene silencing
  • Genes
  • Genetic transformation
  • Genetically engineered organisms
  • Hazards
  • Identification
  • Impact
  • Nucleotide sequences
  • Pest control
  • Pesticides
  • RNA interference
  • Risk assessment
  • Transgenic plants

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