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May 18, 2018 · Working together, scientists from Wageningen University & Research and Teagasc, the Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority, have developed a two-pronged approach: a genetically modified potato, along with a new pest management strategy, that combine for healthy crops with minimal fungicide use.
- 1866 – Dawn of Modern Genetics
- 1868 – What Is This Slimy stuff?
- 1952 – It Is Confirmed, DNA Is Responsible For Inheritance
- 1963 – International Food Safety Standards Get Their Start
- 1970 – One Weed Killer to Rule Them All
- 1973 – Pick and Choose DNA
- 1975 – Hold ON, Safety First
- 1980 – You Can Patent Life
- 1982 – It All Began with A Drug
- 1990 – Say Cheese
Austrian monk, Gregor Mendel, presented his paper Experiments on Plant Hybridization. He had discovered that plant and animal offspring inherit traits from their parents via what we now call genes. Mendel accomplished this by growing 28,000 pea plants between 1856 and 1863, observing seven traits for each generation of plants, and painstakingly rec...
Friedrich Meischer, a trained physician, and researcher was the first person to isolate the substance we now call DNA. He conducted his experiments using white blood cells from bandages supplied by a nearby hospital. The molecule he identified came from the nucleus of the cell so he called it nuclein. Meischer published his findings in a paper with...
Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase conducted experiments confirming that DNA is the genetic material responsible for inheritance. Previously, some scientists had suggested that DNA carried genetic material but many believed that protein in cells was responsible for inheritance.4
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) began working on the Codex Alimentarius(Latin, meaning food law or code). Their purpose was to establish voluntary international food standards to address the growing international food trade and to help ensure food safety, quality, and fair tr...
A chemist working at Monsanto named John E. Franz discovered that a glyphosate molecule could be used to create a herbicide that would kill virtually any plant it came in contact with. A few years later, Roundup hit the market.6
Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen demonstrated that they were able to cut and splice strands of DNA from one organism to another organism. Recombinant DNA is the general name for DNA created by combining at least two strands of DNA. Sometimes, it is called chimera DNA because DNA from different species can be combined like a bacteria and a plant.7
140 people, mostly biologists, attended a conference on recombinant DNA at Asilomar State Beach in Monterey County, CA. These experts came together to talk about the potential dangers of biotechnology and to establish guidelines for conducting experiments safely and keeping them contained.8
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, a scientist working for General Electric, could patent a bacterium he had genetically modified to break down crude oil to help mitigate oil spills. For the purposes of patent law, the fact that this bacterium was a living organism did not make any difference.9
Eli Lilly submitted a request for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve their new genetically engineered insulin drug called Humulin in May 1982. Five months later, in October 1982, the FDA made history by becoming the first U.S. regulatory agency to approve a genetically engineered product for human use.10, 11
A genetically modified enzyme for making cheese was the first product ever approved by the FDA for human consumption. The review process took 28 months.12
Jan 10, 2022 · In addition, potato is largely used in industry to make processed food products, alcohol, animal feed, and for bioenergy production substrates like biofuel (Ahmed et al., 2018). Moreover, given the physicochemical properties of refined starch it is used as a thickening and stabilizing agent in food, and as a raw material in paper, textile ...
- 10.3389/fpls.2021.768233
- 2021
- Front Plant Sci. 2021; 12: 768233.
Feb 17, 2014 · British scientists have developed genetically modified potatoes that are resistant to the vegetable's biggest threat - blight. A three-year trial has shown that these potatoes can thrive...
Oct 20, 2022 · Plant Material. The transgenic potatoes used in the experiment were obtained from the cultivar King Edward, the most common cultivar in Sweden. 38 King Edward plants stacked with three R-genes (RB and Rpi-blb2 from Solanum bulbocastanum, and Rpi-vnt1.1 from Solanum venturi) were produced using Agrobacterium tumefaciens following published procedures. 39 Three transformed lines were selected ...
- 10.1080/21645698.2022.2133396
- 2022
- GM Crops Food. 2022; 13(1): 290-298.
Jan 6, 2022 · Potato ( Solanum tuberosum L.) is the third most important crop worldwide and a staple food for many people worldwide. Genetically, it poses many challenges for traditional breeding due to its autotetraploid nature and its tendency toward inbreeding depression. Breeding programs have focused on productivity, nutritional quality, and disease ...
Feb 27, 2020 · February 27, 2020. Dr. Eric Magembe is committed to using the tools of genetic engineering to fight the devasating potato late blight disease in sub-Saharan Africa. Since the onset of his career, Magembe, a research scientist with the International Potato Center (CIP), has been curious to see how science can be translated into solutions.
