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Jul 23, 2018 · Genetically modified (GM) foods. Food produced from or using genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is referred to as GM food.1 It could include processed foods such as oil used as a cooking medium or ready-to-eat snacks such as chips or breakfast cereal made from GM crops such as soya bean, corn, cottonseed, tomato and potato.
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May 26, 2020 · The 100-plus wild species relatives of potato provide a virtually endless source of traits that can be incorporated into elite varieties relatively easily and quickly. Read the original post X ...
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Sep 21, 2010 · This will set a precedence to focus on GM technology to improve nutritive quality of food, a dire need for a developing country like India." Padmanabhan said that potato per se may not satisfy the ...
Jan 2, 2003 · Genetically modified 'protato' to feed India's poor. Genetically modified potatoes will play a key part in an ambitious 15-year plan to combat malnutrition among India’s poorest...
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Mar 4, 2016 · Genetically engineered crops: India's path ahead. In 2013, the World Food Prize Foundation recognised pioneering work in the area of plant biotechnology by Robert Fraley, Mary-Dell Chilton and ...
Jun 12, 2003 · If, as expected, the protato is approved by Christmas, India will have won the race to develop the first "functional" GM food. British, American and Australian researchers are all working...
Jan 6, 2022 · Introduction. Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the third most important food for human consumption behind wheat and rice, and among the top horticultural crops.Citation 1 Two thirds of the annual yield is marketed fresh, while the remainder is processed for snack and other industrial food products, including animal feed, adhesives, pharmaceuticals, wood, and textile commodities.
