Plants

The main objective of plant biosafety is to protect the environment. Phytopathogens and weeds can have devastating effects on agriculture and biodiversity but possible effects on people and the surrounding community should not be ignored.

Biosafety in the plant world is applied in particular in the following two fields, which are not exclusive: pests and transgenic plants. Thus, we can find plant species:

• Toxic and poisonous.
• Parasitic.
• Exotic and/or invasive
• Infected or infested.
• Transgenic with genes from other plants, microorganisms, animals or humans.