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  1. Genetic modification prevents potatoes from bruising and browning and reduces asparagine, which enhances food safety. (Image Credit: GMO Answers) The potato is the most frequently consumed vegetable in the United States, which raises the question – are there GMO potatoes?

  2. 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.

    • 10.1080/21645698.2021.1993688
    • 2021
    • GM Crops Food. 2021; 12(1): 479-496.
  3. Feb 28, 2017 · February 28, 2017 / 5:24 PM EST / AP. BOISE, Idaho -- Three types of potatoes genetically engineered to resist the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine are safe for the environment...

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  5. Mar 12, 2024 · Since the first genetically engineered or modified crops or organisms (GMO) were approved for commercial production in 1995, no new GMO has been proven to be a hazard or cause harm to human consumers. These modifications have improved crop efficiency, reduced losses to insect pests, reduced losses to viral and microbial plant pathogens and ...

  6. Jan 9, 2015 · This puts a new spin on the definition of a genetically modified (GM) crop, because unlike most commercialized biotech crops, it contains only trace amounts of foreign DNA ( Nat. Biotechnol....

    • Emily Waltz
    • 2015
  7. Dec 19, 2012 · Growing rats pair-fed on iso-proteinic and iso-caloric balanced diets containing raw or boiled non-GM potatoes and GM potatoes with the snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) bulb lectin (GNA) gene (Ewen and Pusztai 1999) showed significant increase in the mucosal thickness of the stomach and the crypt length of the intestines of rats fed GM potatoes.

  8. Feb 28, 2017 · (Nico Champouret/Simplot Plant Sciences via AP) Three types of potatoes genetically engineered to resist the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine are safe for the environment and safe...

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