GM-Crop Cultivation - Ecological Effects on a Landscape Scale

After two successful meetings on the ecological implications of GM-crop cultivation in 2008 and 2010, the authors felt encouraged to carry out a follow-up conference in 2012. GMLS III highlights recent scientific developments in the analysis of risks in the agricultural use of genetically modified plants. While in some countries a GM-based agriculture has been largely established, other regions of the world continue cultivation of conventional varieties only. This acknowledges a persistent reservation of the public towards GMO products. The overall need of an emphasis in independent studies becomes continuously more obvious. Experts from Europe, United States, Ghana and Argentina report their scientific results and experience with ecological, socio-economical and administrative implications.

Contents: Nicola Schoenenberger/Luigi D'Andrea: Subspontaneous glyphosate-tolerant genetically engineered Brassica napus L. along Swiss railways - Frieder Hofmann/Ulrich Schlechtriemen/Ulrike Kuhn/Klaus-Peter Wittich/Wolfgang Koch/Steffi Ober/Rudolf Vögel/Mathias Otto: Variation of maize pollen shedding in North Germany and its relevance for GMO-monitoring - Wieslawa Poplawska/Alina Liersch/Malgorzata Jedryczka/Joannam Kaczmarek/Joanna Wolko/Maria Ogrodowczyk/Iwona Bartkowiak-Broda: Wind-mediated pollen dispersal of oilseed rape - an estimation using pollen traps - Iwona Bartkowiak-Broda/Wieslawa Poplawska/Alina Liersch/Tadeusz Walkowski/Maria Ogrodowczyk: Investigation of oilseed rape gene flow using erucic acid as biochemical marker - Alina Liersch/Joanna Wolko/Wieslawa Poplawska/Krystyna Krotka/Iwona Bartkowiak-Broda: The influence of volunteers and soil seed bank on the quality of oilseed rape seeds - Elena Balducci/Donatella Paffetti/Davide Travaglini/Stefano Biricolti/Francesca Bottalico/Silvia Fiorentini/Anna Buonamici/Francesca Donnarumma/Alessandro Materassi/Gianni Fasano/Lorenzo Chelazzi/Filippo Cimò/Isabella Colombini/Laura Bartalucci/Antonio Perfetti/Olga Mastroianni/Valeria Tomaselli/Simone Gorelli/Francesco Tonazzini/Cristina Vettori: Pollen flow evaluation to implement a Quick Monitoring Index (QMI) - Jana Seeger/Broder Breckling/Juliane Filser: Can dwarfed Oilseed Rape (Brassica napus L.) measure up to tall cultivars? - Cynthia Sagers/Meredith Schafer/Brett Murdoch/Jason Londo/Steven Travers/Peter Van de Water: Domestication, feral species and the importance of industrial agriculture to the future of plant diversity - Frieder Graef/Anne Heyer/Sigrid Ehlert/Ulrich Stachow/Claudia Bethwell/Sarah Effertz/Klaus Henle/Birgit Winkel: Large scale and small scale approaches for assessing potential exposure of habitats and species neighbouring GM plant cultivation - Maren Langhof/Gerhard Rühl: Coexistence in Maize: Efficacy of non-GM border rows in reducing pollen-mediated gene flow - Markus Ernsing/Broder Breckling/Hauke Reuter/Gunther Schmidt: Maize gene flow simulation for intensively used agrarian areas in Lower Saxony (Germany) - Gunther Schmidt/Broder Breckling/Winfried Schröder: Modelling potential maize hybridisation in northern Germany and implementation of a WebGIS application for GMO monitoring issues: Two aspects of the GeneRisk project - Charles Benbrook: Impacts of genetically engineered crops on pesticide use in the U.S. - The first sixteen years - Rosa Binimelis/Angelika Hilbeck/Tamara Lebrecht/Rapahela Vogel/Jack A. Heinemann: Farmer's choice of seeds in five regions under different levels of seed market concentration and GM crop adoption - Denis W. Aheto/Thomas Bøhn/Broder Breckling/Johnnie Van den Berg/Lim Li Ching/Odd-Gunnar Wikmark: Implications of GM crops in subsistence-based agricultural systems in Africa - Thomas Bøhn/Denis W. Aheto/Felix S. Mwangala/Inger Louise Bones/Christopher Simoloka/Ireen Mbeule/Odd-Gunnar Wikmark/Gunther Schmidt/Ignacio Chapela: Co-existence challenges in small-scale farming when farmers share and save seeds - Andrés Carrasco: Teratogenesis by glyphosate based herbicides and other pesticides. Relationship with the retinoic acid pathway - Robin Mesnage/Steeve Gress/Nicolas Defarge/Gilles-Eric Séralini: Human cell toxicity of pesticides associated to wide scale agricultural GMOs - Miluse Trtikova/Matthias S. Meier/Angelika Hilbeck: Effect of extreme climatic conditions on Bt toxin concentration in transgenic maize - András Székács: Cry1Ab toxin quantification in MON 810 maize - Norman Wagner/Wolfram Reichenbecher/Hanka Teichmann/Beatrix Tappeser/Stefan Lötters: Are frogs and