Abstract
Transgenic biotechnology in forestry: what a long strange trip it's been
Highlights
What happened? Most important, the technology, and how it was structured, ran into a social and political buzz-saw
In the 1980s, when the production of transgenic plants was first demonstrated and was soon followed by production of healthy transgenic poplars in the US and in Belgium, many of us, including some of the most conservation minded in forestry science, embraced genetic engineering/genetic modification as an important new technology for forestry
We had this sense of following the yellow brick road to Oz
Summary
What happened? Most important, the technology, and how it was structured, ran into a social and political buzz-saw.
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