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May 18, 2018 · A potato variety genetically engineered to resist potato blight can help reduce the use of chemical fungicides by up to 90 percent, according to a new study - drastically reducing the environmental impact of potato farming.
- 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
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May 26, 2020 · To help demonstrate the power of biotechnology, consider the following analogy: Imagine you have two decks of cards, one red and one blue, and each deck contains all the genes of a potato. The...
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.
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...
Jan 6, 2022 · This review aims to highlight the current genetic engineering tools that are being employed in potato improvement, with special emphasis on varieties that have reached the market. It examines the traits that have been modified in potato, the methods used, and the final outcomes.
Mar 10, 2013 · GMO foods are such an embedded part of our food system these days, but it's not difficult to think back to a time when food was simpler and healthier. How did we get to the point that genetically modified organisms infiltrate so much of what we eat? In a recent issue of Rosebud Magazine, GMO expert GL Woolsey took a look at the history of GMOs.
