Plant breeding involving genetic engineering does not result in unacceptable unintended effects in rice relative to conventional cross-breeding.

ABSTRACT: Advancements in -omics techniques provide powerful tools to assess the potential effects in composition of a plant at the RNA, protein and metabolite levels. These technologies can thus be deployed to assess whether genetic engineering (GE) causes changes in plants that go beyond the changes introduced by conventional plant breeding. Here, we compare the extent of transcriptome and metabolome modification occurring in leaves of four GE rice lines expressing Bacillus thuringiensis genes developed by GE and seven rice lines developed by conventional cross-breeding. The results showed that both types of crop breeding methods can bring changes at transcriptomic and metabolic levels, but the differences were comparable between the two methods, and were less than those between conventional non-G

SUBMITTER: Liu Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7540705 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature