Abstract
The world market for the first generation of transgenic crops (insecticidal and herbicide-resistant plants) has been expanding since 2012, mostly owing to developing countries. The cautious attitude in the majority of economically developed countries to the first-generation transgenic agricultural crops is due to several objective circumstances: the negative impact of insecticidal Bt-crops on useful and endangered invertebrate species, the allergenic properties of Bt-toxin for humans, toxicity of glyphosate to humans and animals, the widely spreading resistance of weeds to glyphosate, the increasing resistance of–harmful–insects to insecticidal Bt-plants, the danger of–genetic pollution–of aboriginal plant varieties, and the flow of herbicide resistance traits to weed plants.
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- GM:
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genetically modified (plants)
- POEA:
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polyoxyethyleneamine
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Original Russian Text–A.G. Viktorov, 2016, published in Fiziologiya Rastenii, 2016, Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 44–51.
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Viktorov, A.G. Current trends in the global market of transgenic plants and environmental safety issues. Russ J Plant Physiol 63, 38–45 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1021443716010179
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