• Vikas Kumar

Forests are crucial to the world's ecological, social, cultural and economic well-being, but pressures such as rising demand for timber and other forest products, land conversion and destruction, and climate change increasingly threaten the sustainable supply of goods and services from forests. Highly productive forestry, intensively controlled, using the most advanced tree breeding techniques, including the application of genetic engineering (GE), has enormous potential for producing more wood on less land. The deployment of GE trees in plantation forests, however, is a contentious issue and concerns about potential environmental damage have been especially expressed.This paper, prepared by the International Expert Group on Silviculture, Forest Tree Breeding, Forest Biotechnology and Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) meeting in April 2012, discusses how GE trees can be applied to the ERA paradigm used for GE crop plants for use in forest plantations. It stresses the importance of distinguishing between ERA for GE trees for confined field trials, and ERA for unconfined or commercial-scale releases.In the case of forest trees, special attention is paid to the characteristics of forest trees, which distinguish them from shorter-lived plant species, the temporal and spatial size of forests, and the biodiversity of the receiving ecosystem of the plantation forest.

Environment, Forests, Genetic engineering, Risk assessment.

"A Review on Genetically Engineered Trees", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no.428-432, November-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIREP06108.pdf

"A Review on Genetically Engineered Trees", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no. pp428-432, November-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIREP06108.pdf