From Transgenesis to Genome Editing in Crop Improvement: Applications, Marketing, and Legal Issues.

ABSTRACT: The biotechnological approaches of transgenesis and the more recent eco-friendly new breeding techniques (NBTs), in particular, genome editing, offer useful strategies for genetic improvement of crops, and therefore, recently, they have been receiving increasingly more attention. The number of traits improved through transgenesis and genome editing technologies is growing, ranging from resistance to herbicides and insects to traits capable of coping with human population growth and climate change, such as nutritional quality or resistance to climatic stress and diseases. Research on both technologies has reached an advanced stage of development and, for many biotech crops, phenotypic evaluations in the open field are already underway. In addition, many approvals regarding main crops have b

SUBMITTER: Marone D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10138802 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature