James Ison and Andreas KontoleonjDepartment of Land Economy, University of Cambridge The aim of this study is to investigate consumer preferences for functional GM foods in the United Kingdom. A choice experiment methodology was utilized to elicit respondents’ purchase intentions with regard…

Ian McFarlane and Julian ParkUniversity of Reading, UKGraziano CeddiaMODUL University Vienna This article forecasts the extent to which the potential benefits of adopting transgenic crops may be reduced by costs of compliance with coexistence regulations applicable in various member states of the…

Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo and Alessandra ImperialiUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata Genetic networks are recent paradigms for the inheritance of traits from parents. They can be defined as relational structures composed of genes, some of which carry genetic information, and linkages with structural…

Rene C. Van Acker and S. Zahra. H. CiciUniversity of Guelph, Ontario, Canada The characteristics of Prunus species highlight the complexity of maintaining coexistence between genetically modified (GM) and non-GM Prunus in the case of commercial production of GM Prunus species and…

Helen M. Booker, Jenalee M. Mischkolz, Michael St. Louis, and Eric G. LambUniversity of Saskatchewan, Canada CDC Triffid transgenic flax was deregistered in 2001 due to concerns about the effect of its production on offshore markets. A decade after removal of CDC…

Aleksandra MałyskaInstitute of Technical Biochemistry, Lodz University of Technology, PolandTomasz TwardowskiInstitute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Agrobiotechnology is one of the most innovative fields of science, and its achievements are widely used in knowledgebased bioeconomy (KBBE). At the same…

Caroline Burgeff, Elleli Huerta, Francisca Acevedo, and José SarukhánComisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO) The relevance of addressing coexistence between GM, conventional, and organic agricultural production mostly has been driven in industrialized countries by (international) commercial issues…

Lisa F. Clark, Camille D. Ryan, and William A. KerrUniversity of Saskatchewan, Canada It is often convenient to divide the world into those countries that have been generally accepting of agricultural biotechnology and those that are not. While the debate over biotechnology…

Michele C. Marra, Nicholas E. Piggott, and Barry K. GoodwinNorth Carolina State University Corn rootworm resistance to one of the corn rootworm traits has been found in a few isolated places in the Corn Belt. Several crop rotations have been proposed by…

Giulio MelaCentro ricerche economiche sulle filiere suinicole (Crefis), ItalyGabriele CanaliUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy Similarly to other EU countries, Italy began subsidizing electric energy production from renewable sources such as biogas. This proved to be an inefficient way of using available…