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Genetically modified organisms are products of recent scientific and technical advances. Contemporary biotechnological methods allow humans to penetrate into the nature-established mechanisms of hereditary information transfer. This train of events raises concerns in the global public and scientific community who feel the need to develop methods to control this activity in order to avoid negative consequences of the use of transgenic organisms for the natural environment and human health.
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Original Russian Text © I.A. Kuznetsov, 2015, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2015, Vol. 85, No. 4, pp. 329–337.
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Kuznetsov, I.A. The technology and risks of genetic engineering in crop production. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 85, 155–162 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331615020112
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