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...They include wheat that can withstand drought, tomatoes resistant to fungus and potatoes containing less acrylamide, which becomes carcinogenic when fried....
...Yet many scientists still lack the depth of insight into plant genomes needed for confident gene-editing decisions....
...Hertfordshire-based Rothamsted Research has used gene editing to produce wheat with reduced levels of an amino acid which creates the probable carcinogen acrylamide when baked or toasted....
...But some believe that, if teff grew — and fed people — elsewhere, this problem would have long been solved through gene technology....
...Berry bad neighbours EU agriculture ministers meet today to discuss gene editing techniques, cutting pesticide use, new rules on seed marketing — and Ukrainian strawberries, write Andy Bounds and Raphael...
...Brussels has proposed loosening restrictions on some gene-edited crops....
...Advocates say gene editing does much the same, more effectively. It could, for example, help develop wheat that provides nutrients to the soil, says Pesonen, reducing the need for fertiliser....
...It identifies individual genes in wheat and then activates them to create “wild-enhanced” varieties that grow faster and bigger with less water and nutrients....
...Though there are more than 7,000 edible plant species on the planet, just three - maize, rice, and wheat - are the staple food of over half the world's population....
...Since the war in Ukraine, wheat and corn prices have jumped 41 per cent and 28 cent respectively, as Russia and Ukraine combined represent about 30 per cent of global wheat exports....
...He wants new technologies permitted that would allow gene editing to improve the output of animals and plants....
...The search for alternatives has accelerated because innovative therapies, based on human genes and cells or even personalised for patients, may not work in animals at all....
...“The first generation of GM crops had just one gene transferred to make them herbicide tolerant or insect resistant,” says Oldroyd....
...Had a crop of wheat, and had 15 acres. I don't really think I ever thought about doing anything different. But I had to grow into it, I guess....
...Jahn comes from a family of famous Canadian plant breeders, studied at MIT and Cornell University, and started her career sequencing genes....
...For example, bringing soyabeans from Asia and crossbreeding genes to suit the tropics have helped make the country one the of world’s great breadbaskets....
...Agricultural scientists are working on a multitude of gene editing projects, including low-gluten wheat, and peanuts which do not cause allergies....
...Busch’s lab found a gene that can make the Arabidopsis grow deeper roots....
...Gene-y-ous ideas Can gene editing save the banana from a deadly fungus before it spreads to Latin America, devastating the farms that provide three-quarters of the world’s banana exports?...
...The genes of many different races have met in these hills and intermingled....
...Crispr has been used to create disease-resistant strains of wheat and rice, alter yeast to make biofuels and reverse blindness in animals....
...The GM plants have extra copies of a gene producing an enzyme called SBPase that plays an important role in photosynthesis. No GM wheat varieties are grown commercially anywhere in the world....
...Insect resistance adds a bacterial gene that produces a toxin lethal to pests, so the farmer has to apply less pesticide....
...Not Brexit but Crispr gene-editing, a DNA-changing technology that can supposedly cure mice of liver disease and muscular dystrophy, render human cells resistant to HIV and create fungus-resistant wheat....
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