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  1. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articlesPotato improvement through genetic engineering - PMC

    Jan 6, 2022 · These problems can be addressed by genetic modification (GM) or gene editing (GE) and open a wide horizon for potato crop improvement. Current genetically modified and gene edited varieties include those with Colorado potato beetle and late blight resistance, reduction in acrylamide, and modified starch content.

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      Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the third most important...

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      GM Crops Food. 2021; 12(1): 479–496. ... Summary of the most...

  2. www.fda.gov › gmo-crops-animal-food-and-beyondGMO Crops, Animal Food, and Beyond | FDA

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    • GMO Foods
    • Types of GMOs
    • Uses for GMOs
    • Approved Applications

    This article provides information about the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food and other products. It explains that most GMOs are used to make ingredients for processed foods, animal feed, and some medicines. The article also mentions the role of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in ensuring the safety of GMO products.

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    Many foods and food products are made with ingredients from GMO crops, including cornstarch, soybean oil, canola oil, granulated sugar. The U.S. Department of Agriculture maintains a list of bioengineered foods available throughout the world and consumers will start seeing the “bioengineered” label on some foods due to the new National Bioengineere...

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    Only a few types of GMOs are grown in the United States such as soybeans (94%), cotton (96%), corn (92%) which make up large percentages of their respective crops grown; most used for animal food or making ingredients for processed foods.

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    Most common uses include making cooking oils and margarine (canola), feeding cattle/dairy cows (alfalfa), producing fabric materials(cotton), preventing insect damage while reducing need to spray insecticides(Bt Corn). Some were developed to resist browning after being cut or plant viruses like summer squash or papaya ringspot virus disease respect...

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    FDA has approved an application allowing sale of AquAdvantage Salmon & GalSafe pig both genetically modified but safe & nutritious as non-GMO salmon & pigs ; genetic engineering also important in creating medicines that go through extensive FDA approval process before human use .

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  4. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articlesEnvironmental impacts of genetically modified (GM) crop use ...

    Jul 24, 2020 · This paper presents an assessment of some of the key environmental impacts associated with the global adoption of these GM traits. The environmental impact analysis focuses on: Changes in the amount of insecticides and herbicides applied to the GM crops relative to conventionally grown alternatives and;

    • Graham Brookes, Peter Barfoot
    • 10.1080/21645698.2020.1773198
    • 2015
    • GM Crops Food. 2020; 11(4): 215-241.

  5. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articlesThe impact of Genetically Modified (GM) crops in modern ...

    Dec 13, 2017 · GM Crops: An Imperfect Technology. Despite the above controversies being proven unfounded, GM crops are an “imperfect technology” with potential major health risks of toxicity, allergenicity and genetic hazards associated to them.

    • Ruchir Raman
    • 10.1080/21645698.2017.1413522
    • 2017
    • GM Crops Food. 2017; 8(4): 195-208.

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  7. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullFull article: Twenty-eight years of GM Food and feed without ...

    Mar 12, 2024 · Between 1994 and July 2023, several genetically engineered crops and a few genetically engineered animals were developed and approved for food use in at least one county (ISAAA.org GM database). Now there are 386 events (trait and crop or animal species) of genetically engineered (GE or GMOs) approved for food use in at least one country.

  8. www.frontiersin.org › journals › plant-scienceFrontiers | Global Regulation of Genetically Modified Crops ...

    Feb 23, 2021 · Unlike most countries, the United States has no specific overarching federal law targeted at regulation of genetically modified organisms. Instead, newly developed GM products are directed to specialized regulatory bodies under the Coordinated Framework for Regulation of Biotechnology ( Table 2 ).

  9. link.springer.com › article › 10Genetically modified crops: current status and future prospects

    Mar 31, 2020 · Genetically modified (GM) crops are such crop plants whose genome is modified using genetic engineering techniques to improve the existing traits or for introduction of a new trait that does not occur naturally in the given crop species.