Virus-Resistant Transgenic Plants: Potential Ecological Impact

Evolution; the past, a window on the future?
- Systematic search for recombination events in plant viruses and viroids
- Different mechanisms of homologous and nonhomologous recombination in brome mosaic virus
- Studies on RNA recombination in vivo and in vitro
- RNA recombination in viral protein mediated virus resistant transgenic plants
- Transgenic plants expressing viral sequences create a favourable environment for recombination between viral sequences
- Behaviour of cucumovirus pseudorecombinant and recombinant strains in solanaceous hosts
- Recombination between cauliflower mosaic virus and transgenic plants that contain CaMV transgenes: influence of selection pressure on isolation of recombinants
- Synergy of virus accumulation and pathogenicity in transgenic plants expressing viral sequences
- Risk assessment of transgenic plants expressing the coat protein gene of plum pox potyvirus
- Mixed infections and genetic exchange occur in natural populations of cucumber mosaic cucumovirus
- The potential of a beneficial satellite RNA of cucumber mosaic virus to acquire deleterious functions: nature versus greenhouses- Ecological impact of transgenic virus-resistance in crop, weed, and wild plant populations (due to potential alterations of plant invasiveness)
- Risk assessment of gene flow associated with virus resistant transgenic crop plants
- Concluding remarks and recommendations.