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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 ...
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. 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. 2,3 In 2019, 17.5 ...
- 10.1080/21645698.2021.1993688
- 2021
- GM Crops Food. 2021; 12(1): 479-496.
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Oct 22, 2018 · Michelle Perro, MD, DHom is a veteran pediatrician with over four decades of experience in acute and integrative medicine, co-founder and CEO of GMOScience (LINK?), a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization. More than fifteen years ago, Dr. Perro transformed her clinical practice to include the health effects from GMOs and their associated pesticides.
In 2014, a team of British scientists published a paper about three-year field trial showing that another genetically modified version of the Désirée cultivar can resist infection after exposure to late blight, one of the most serious diseases of potatoes. They developed this potato for blight resistance by inserting a gene (Rpi-vnt1.1), into ...
Feb 17, 2014 · By Matt McGrath. Environment correspondent, BBC News. British scientists have developed genetically modified potatoes that are resistant to the vegetable's biggest threat - blight. A...
Jul 2, 2021 · GMOs are plants and animals that have had their DNA tweaked by scientists in a lab. Scientists say GMOs are safe, but some wish to avoid them until long-term studies are published. Common GMO ...
Sep 28, 2020 · To be clear, a negative impact on health can derive from any agri-food product, “GMO” or otherwise; yet, accurate examination of the results from each individual experiment does work: we got ...
