Collection of Biosafety Reviews - Vol. 1

General introduction

1. Fate and effects in soil of the insecticidal toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis in transgenic plants 

Author: Deepak Saxena and Guenther Stotzy, Laboratory of Microbial Ecology, Department of Biology, New York University, USA.

2. Biosafety considerations relevant to virus-resistant transgenic plant, in particular totomato resistant to CMV.

Author: Mark Tepfer, Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, INRA Versailles, France.

3. An assessment of factors affecting the likelihood of horizontal transfer of recombinant plant DNA to bacterial recipients in the soil and pytosphere.

Author: Kaare M. Nielsen, Department of Pharmacy, University of Tromso, Norway.