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Building public trust and acceptance towards spray-on RNAi biopesticides: lessons from current ethical, legal and social discourses GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-28 Ariyani Rinaldi, Nurzatil Sharleeza Mat Jalaluddin, Rosila Bee Mohd Hussain, Adilah Abdul Ghapor
Advances in New Plant Breeding Techniques (NBTs), particularly spray-on RNA interference (RNAi) biopesticides, necessitates a reevaluation of existing regulatory and governance frameworks. While spray-on RNAi technologies offer promising solutions for sustainable crop protection and targeted pest control without altering plant genomes, they also raise important ethical, legal, and social implications
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The invasion of fall armyworm and green pest control: an analysis of farmers’ willingness to adopt genetically modified insect-resistant maize in Southwest China GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-27 Yanfang Huang, Minglong Zhang, Xiangping Jia, Fengying Nie, Xianming Yang, Kongming Wu
The invasion of fall armyworm poses a serious threat to global food security, necessitating the urgent promotion of environmentally friendly pest control technologies. As a key strategy in green pest control, the effectiveness of genetically modified (GM) insect-resistant crops largely depends on the extent of farmer acceptance. Based on survey data from 426 GM maize pilot farmers in Yunnan Province
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The moderating role of environment-related technologies in the link between transportation infrastructure, agricultural, and environmental contamination in highly congested countries of the world GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-05 Wanzhen Xu, Arshad Ali
Densely populated countries have greater demand for agricultural output, greater vehicle usage, and busier traffic, so these countries devote more agricultural land to agricultural production and invest more in transportation infrastructure, resulting in higher environmental emissions. Most studies in literature assume that environment-related technologies directly diminish environmental contamination
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Is the Philippines ready for the large-scale cultivation of Bt cotton? GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-05-03 Rosalyn B. Angeles-Shim, Georgina V. Vergara
The Philippine Bureau of Plant Industry released on August 24, 2023, a biosafety permit approving the commercial propagation of Bt cotton in the country. Bt cotton is genetically engineered to have built-in resistance to bollworm, the most destructive pest of the cotton plant. With the issuance of the permit and after more than two decades of economic slump, the Philippines is now gearing towards a
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Specific detection of genetically modified potatoes containing asparagine synthetase-1 and polyphenol oxidase 5 genes derived from potato GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-04-07 Sujung Park, Sanggu Lee, Soo-In Sohn, Taesung Park, Kongsik Shin
Several genetically modified (GM) potatoes have been developed by introducing endogenous genes derived from potatoes, such as asparagine synthetase-1 (Asn1) and polyphenol oxidase 5 (Ppo5), to improve quality. Therefore, it is difficult to distinguish between GM and non-GM potatoes. In this study, we developed a sequence-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detection method to identify innate and
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Two genetically modified insect-resistant maize events reduced fumonisin pollution under the stress of Lepidoptera in China GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-04-07 Lin Zhao, Jing Lan, Xiaolei Zhang, Yun Zhang, Cui Huang, Wenqiong Ma, Yingqiu Du, Haiming Zhao, Baohai Liu
China is the second-largest maize producer and consumer globally. During maize production, Fusarium spp. often gets infected, and mycotoxins like fumonisin contaminate it. Fumonisin has become the most widely polluted mycotoxin type in China. Planting genetically - modified maize is an economical and effective approach to reducing fumonisin pollution in products. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness
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Functional analysis of type II chalcone isomerase ( CHI ) genes in regulating soybean ( Glycine max L .) nodule formation GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Xinyue Wang, Jingwen Li, Yuxue Zhou, Jinhao Zhang, Le Wang, Yajing Liu, Xuguang Yang, Hongshuang Han, Qingyu Wang, Ying Wang
Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) is the most cost-effective and environmentally benign method for nitrogen fertilization. Isoflavones are important signaling factors for BNF in leguminous plants. Whether chalcone isomerase (CHI), the key enzyme gene in the flavonoid synthesis pathway, contributes to soybean (Glycine max) nodulation has not yet been fully clarified. In the present study, we identified
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Late blight field resistance in potatoes carrying Solanum americanum resistance genes (Rpi-amr3 and Rpi-amr1). GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-03-23 Svante Resjö,Iqra,Nam P Kieu,Muhammad Awais Zahid,Marit Lenman,Björn Andersson,Erik Andreasson
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is an important global crop, but its production is severely impacted by late blight, caused by the pathogen Phytophthora infestans. The economic burden of this disease is significant, and current control strategies rely mainly on fungicides, which face increasing regulatory and environmental constraints. To address this challenge, potatoes with resistance genes from wild
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Evaluating the impact of improved maize varieties on agricultural productivity and technical efficiency among smallholder farmers in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: an empirical analysis GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-03-19 Lelethu Mdoda, Nthabeleng Tamako, Lungile S. Gidi, Denver Naidoo
Agriculture is essential to South Africa's economy, and maize is a crucial crop for smallholder farmers in the Eastern Cape. Traditional maize varieties face challenges related to productivity and resilience, prompting the promotion of Improved Maize Varieties (IMVs) to enhance yields and efficiency. This study investigates the impact of IMV adoption on agricultural productivity and technical efficiency
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Rate of herbicide resistant weed development: A Canadian Prairie case study GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-03-10 Chelsea Sutherland, Savannah Gleim, Simona Lubieniechi, Stuart J. Smyth
Genetically modified crop adoption in Canada has been the key driver in removing tillage as the lead form of weed control, due to increased weed control efficiency. Land use has transitioned from the use of summerfallow to continuous cropping, predominantly involving zero or minimum tillage practices. Prairie crop rotations have diversified away from mainly cereals to include three-year rotations of
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Assessment of interspecies and intergeneric gene flow for the GM Jatropha curcas event X8#34 with high oleic acid content in seed GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-03-05 Kasthurirengan Sampath, Zhang Shilu, Hong Yan, Yogendra Kr. Tripathi, Srinivasan Ramachandran
GM Jatropha X8#34 was placed for transgene flow assessment in the open field trial on Semakau Island, Singapore, between 2015 and 2017 to evaluate the potential gene flow to its non-GM counterparts and related species. The trial featured the GM Jatropha event X8#34, which is characterized by high oleic acid content, marker-free, and a homozygous transgene. The study focused on cross-pollination from
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Transcriptome and nutritional composition analysis of stacked transgenic maize with insect resistance and herbicide tolerance GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-28 Xiaoxing Yu, Hongyu Gao, Pengfei Wang
The safety assessment of stacked transgenic crops is essential for their commercial cultivation. A crucial element of safety assessment is the nutritional evaluation of transgenic crops. Currently, profiling methods like transcriptome are employed as supplemental analytical tools to find the unintended effects of transgenic crops. In this study, stacked transgenic maize ZDRF8×nCX-1 was produced by
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Maize 4-coumarate coenzyme A ligase Zm4CL-like9 gene positively regulates drought stress response in Arabidopsis thaliana GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-24 Jiayi Fan, Zhipeng Luo, Yuankai Wang, Peng Jiao, Qingxu Wang, Yuntao Dai, Shuyan Guan, Yiyong Ma, Huiwei Yu, Siyan Liu
Maize is a major food crop in China, and drought is one of the major abiotic stresses that threaten the growth and development of the crop, seriously affecting the crop yield. 4-coumaric acid coenzyme A ligase (4CL) is a key enzyme in the phenylpropane metabolic pathway, which can regulate the lignin content of the plant and play an important role in the plant's resistance to drought stress, plays
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Impact of genetically modified herbicide-resistant maize on rhizosphere bacterial communities GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-14 Ye-Jin Jang, Sung-Dug Oh, Joon Ki Hong, Jong-Chan Park, Seong-Kon Lee, Ancheol Chang, Doh-Won Yun, Bumkyu Lee
Rhizosphere bacterial community studies offer valuable insights into the environmental implications of genetically modified (GM) crops. This study compared the effects of a non-GM maize cultivar, namely Hi-IIA, with those of a herbicide-resistant maize cultivar containing the phosphinothricin N-acetyltransferase gene on the rhizosphere bacterial community across growth stages. 16s rRNA amplicon sequencing
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Development of transgenic wheat plants withstand salt stress via the MDAR1 gene GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Mohamed Abdelsattar, Ahmed M. Ramadan, Amin E. Eltayeb, Osama M. Saleh, Fatthy M. Abdel-Tawab, Eman M. Fahmy, Sameh E. Hassanein, Hani M. Ali, Najla B. S. Al-Saud, Hussien. F. Alameldin, Sabah M. Hassan, Nermin G. Mohamed, Ahmed Z. Abdel Azeiz, Ahmed Bahieldin, Hala F. Eissa
In light of the fact that climate change has emerged as one of the difficulties confronting the global food system, researchers are obligated to work toward developing fundamental crops, particularly wheat, to combat environmental stress, including drought and salt. In the present study, genetic engineering was used to transfer the Arabidopsis MDAR1 gene, which controls the buildup of ascorbic acid
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CRISPR-Cas9-mediated editing of ZmPL1 gene improves tolerance to drought stress in maize GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-01-17 Chunlai Wang, Yangyang Zhou, Yimeng Wang, Peng Jiao, Siyan Liu, Shuyang Guan, Yiyong Ma
Maize (Zea mays L.) is a widely grown food crop around the world. Drought stress seriously affects the growth and development process of plants and causes serious damage to maize yield. In the early stage, our research group conducted transcriptome sequencing analysis on the drought-resistant maize inbred line H8186 and screened out a gene with significantly down-regulated expression, Phylloplanin-like
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Public knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions toward genetically modified foods in Lebanon GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-01-15 Hussein F. Hassan, Hasan Yassine, Ahlam Chaaban, Ahmad Chehaitly, Zeinab Skaineh, Nagham Cherri, Sahar Moussawi, Nour Baytamouni, Philippe Hussein Kobeissy, Hani Dimassi, José-Noel Ibrahim
Genetically modified foods (GMFs) have garnered significant attention due to their implications for health, agriculture, and food security. Understanding knowledge and perceptions of GMFs is essential, as these factors influence acceptance and attitudes. This study, the first of its kind in Lebanon, aimed to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions regarding GMFs and to explore their association
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ClaPEPCK4: target gene for breeding innovative watermelon germplasm with low malic acid and high sweetness GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-01-14 Congji Yang, Jiale Shi, Yuanyuan Qin, ShengQi Hua, Jiancheng Bao, Xueyan Liu, Yuqi Peng, Yige Gu, Wei Dong
Malic acid markedly affects watermelon flavor. Reducing the malic acid content can significantly increase the sweetness of watermelon. An effective solution strategy is to reduce watermelon malic acid content through molecular breeding technology. In this study, we measured the TSS and pH of six watermelon varieties at four growth nodes. The TSS content was very low at 10 DAP and accumulated rapidly
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Expected profitability, independence, and risk assessment of small farmers in the wave of GM crop collectivization——evidence from Xinjiang and Guangdong GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-01-09 Yu Pang, Helin Zou, Chunchun Jia, Chao Gu
As a longstanding and indispensable part of developing countries, small farmers face challenges brought by the dissemination of GM technology. Despite governments' efforts to promote collective cultivation of GM crops through top-down policies aimed at enhancing small farmers' production efficiency and market competitiveness, actual participation rates among small farmers in many developing countries
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Distribution status of genetically modified soybeans from the United States and Canada to Japan in 2021 and 2022. GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-12-26 Keisuke Soga,Yu Hashimoto,Tomohiro Egi,Chie Taguchi,Satoko Yoshiba,Norihito Shibata,Kazunari Kondo,Reona Takabatake
The number of authorized genetically modified (GM) soybeans has increased worldwide. In Japan, 34 GM soybeans containing single events and their stacked varieties have been approved as food. However, not all approved GM events are commercially cultivated or distributed. In this study, we evaluated domestically distributed samples from the United States (US) and Canada using 17 event-specific detection
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Research and developmental strategies to hasten the improvement of orphan crops. GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-12-24 Ufuoma Akpojotor,Olubusayo Oluwole,Olaniyi Oyatomi,Rajneesh Paliwal,Michael Abberton
To feed the world's expanding population, crop breeders need to increase agricultural productivity and expand major crops base. Orphan crops are indigenously important crops with great potential because they are climate resilient, highly nutritious, contain nutraceutical compounds, and can improve the livelihood of smallholder farmers and consumers, but they have received little or no scientific attention
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ZmNF-YB10, a maize NF-Y transcription factor, positively regulates drought and salt stress response in Arabidopsis thaliana. GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-12-24 Yimeng Wang,Peng Jiao,Chenyang Wu,Chunlai Wang,Ke Shi,Xiaoqi Gao,Shuyan Guan,Yiyong Ma
Maize (Zea mays L.) is a major food and feed crop and an important raw material for energy, chemicals, and livestock. The NF-Y family of transcription factors in maize plays a crucial role in the regulation of plant development and response to environmental stress. In this study, we successfully cloned and characterized the maize NF-Y transcription factor gene ZmNF-YB10. We used bioinformatics, quantitative
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Impacts of accelerating agricultural R&D transfer on global food security. GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-12-09 Yan Jin,Zuzana Smeets Kristkova,Maximilian Kardung,Justus Wesseler
Postponing the adoption of genome editing (GE) is costly, with lengthy regulatory processes contributing to postponement. Accelerating agricultural research and development (R&D) transfer is important for stimulating sustainable agricultural transitions and enhancing global food security. Using the MAGNET model, we incorporate dynamic R&D accumulation and compare economic projections in scenarios with
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Gender integration of agricultural innovation: implications for the genetically modified crop product development pipeline. GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-12-07 Elizabeth Katz
We provide guidance on how to incorporate best practices around gender integration in the development of genetically improved crops by adapting a gender integration framework for conventional crop breeding to the GM product development pipeline, which places greater emphasis on the discovery and launch phases because the technical nature of the development process means fewer opportunities for farmer
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Growing knowledge impact of gene-editing technology on public acceptance: a longitudinal analysis in Japan. GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-12-06 Atsushi Sato,Daiki Watanabe,Yoko Saito
Genome editing (GE) technology holds significant promise for advancements in crop development and medical applications. However, public acceptance of GE in Japan remains uncertain. This study aimed to examine how knowledge impacts public acceptance of GE technology, focusing on differences across diffusion stages and application purposes. Using ordinary least squares regression on repeated survey data
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Characterization of glyphosate-tolerant genetically modified eucalyptus. GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-11-24 Antonio Carlos Mota Porto,José Mateus Wisniewski Gonsalves,Paula Aparecida Vieira,Matheus Perek,Diego da Costa Lima,Marcio Nagayschi,Thais Regina Drezza,Ana Cristina Pinheiro,Eduardo Jose de Mello,Dror Avisar,Rodrigo Neves Graca
Eucalyptus stands out as one of the most productive tree species for large-scale cultivation. However, like all cultivated crops, it requires specialized management practices, including the control of weeds, pathogens, and pests. Glyphosate is the most widely applied herbicide used in the essential weeding effort, and it ensures the sustainable management of eucalyptus cultivation in Brazil. Given
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Golden opportunities? How marketing expectations drive purchase intentions of golden rice in Bangladesh and the Philippines. GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-11-18 Dilshad Zahan Ethen,Maimuna Begum,Berre Deltomme,Md Rasheduzzaman,Josefina F Ballesteros,Riza Abilgos-Ramos,Mohammad Jahangir Alam,Alice Onek Atimango,Hans De Steur
Golden Rice (GR), genetically modified (GM) rice enriched with provitamin A, holds promise to address micronutrient deficiencies in developing countries. However, its success hinges on market acceptance. This study investigates how the marketing aspects of GR influence consumers' purchase intentions in Bangladesh and the Philippines. The Expectation Confirmation Theory (ECT) is employed to analyze
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Does DNA extraction affect the specificity of a PCR method claiming the specific detectability of a genome-edited plant? GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-11-14 Sophia Edelmann,Christian Savini,Dominik Moor,Jörn Lämke,Kathrin Lieske,Marco Mazzara,Hendrik Emons,Joachim Mankertz,Christopher Weidner
Under current EU legislation, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and derived food and feed products must be authorized as GM food, feed, or seed and appropriate detection methods must be made available for use in official controls. A Real-Time PCR method has recently been published by Chhalliyil et al. claiming to be specific for the detection and identification of genome-edited oilseed rape (OSR)
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Risk assessment of homologous variants of biotech trait proteins using a bridging approach. GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-11-09 Cunxi Wang,Jennifer Calcaterra,Beverly Anderson,Timothy Rydel,Rong Wang,Lieselot Bertho,Scott A Saracco,Kimberly Hodge-Bell,Luis Burzio,Tommi White,Bin Li
A transgenic protein is frequently expressed as different homologous variants in genetically modified crops due to differential processing of targeting peptides or optimization of activity and specificity. The aim of this study was to develop a science-based approach for risk assessment of homologous protein variants using dicamba mono-oxygenase (DMO) as a case study. In this study, DMO expressed in
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Consumers’ response to genetically modified food: an Italian case study GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-11-06 Federica DeMaria, Simona Romeo Lironcurti, Federica Morandi, Alessandra Pesce, Laura Gazza, Francesca Nocente
The agricultural sector could benefit from biotechnologies in addressing challenges such as pests, droughts, and food supply issues. Genetically modified (GM) crops have been developed to offer not...
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Genome editing in Sub-Saharan Africa: a game-changing strategy for climate change mitigation and sustainable agriculture GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-31 Peter Amoah, Abdoul-Razak Oumarou Mahamane, Moise Hubert Byiringiro, Neo Jeremiah Mahula, Nyimasata Manneh, Yetunde Ruth Oluwasegun, Abebawork Tilahun Assfaw, Hellen Mawia Mukiti, Abubakar Danlami Garba, Felicity Kido Chiemeke, Omena Bernard Ojuederie, Bunmi Olasanmi
Sub-Saharan Africa’s agricultural sector faces a multifaceted challenge due to climate change consisting of high temperatures, changing precipitation trends, alongside intensified pest and disease ...
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Characterizing the impact of CPSF30 gene disruption on TuMV infection in Arabidopsis thaliana GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Yanping Wei, Quan Yuan, Dalal Sulaiman Alshaya, Abdul Waheed, Kotb A. Attia, Sajid Fiaz, Muhammad Shahid Iqbal
CPSF30, a key polyadenylation factor, also serves as an m6A reader, playing a crucial role in determining RNA fate post-transcription. While its homologs mammals are known to be vital for viral rep...
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Biotechnology executive order opens door for regulatory reform and social acceptance of genetically engineered microbes in agriculture GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Jabeen Ahmad, Amy Grunden, Jennifer Kuzma
In the United States, regulatory review of genetically engineered microbes for agriculture falls under the Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology (CFRB). However, the lack of a c...
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The recent genetic modification techniques for improve soil conservation, nutrient uptake and utilization GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Gideon Sadikiel Mmbando, Kelvin Ngongolo
Advances in genetic modification (GM) techniques have generated huge interest in improving nutrient utilization, maximizing nutrient uptake, and conserving soil in the pursuit of sustainable agricu...
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Best practices for acceptability of GM crops field trials conclusions: lessons for Africa GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Paul Chege, Julia Njagi, John Komen, Godfrey Ngure, John Muriuki, Margaret Karembu
The ability to transfer information about the performance, safety, and environmental impacts of a genetically modified (GM) crop from confined field trials (CFTs) conducted in one location to anoth...
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Regulatory framework for genetically modified organisms in the Kingdom of Eswatini GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Bongani Z. Nkhabindze, Cebisile N. Magagula, Diana Earnshaw, Calsile F. Mhlanga, Sipho N. Matsebula, Isaac G. Dladla
The Kingdom of Eswatini is a Party to the Convention on Biological Diversity and to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. As Party, Eswatini has domesticated these agreements by passing the Biosafet...
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The evolution of media reportage on GMOs in Ghana following approval of first GM crop GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Joseph Opoku Gakpo, Dennis Baffour - Awuah
Ghana’s parliament in 2011 passed the Biosafety Act to allow for the application of genetically modified organism (GMO) technology in the country’s agriculture. In a vibrant democracy, there have b...
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The Adoption of Genetically Modified Crops in Africa: the Public’s Current Perception, the Regulatory Obstacles, and Ethical Challenges GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Gideon Sadikiel Mmbando
Genetically modified (GM) crops are the most important agricultural commodities that can improve the yield of African smallholder farmers. The intricate circumstances surrounding the introduction o...
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Impacts of AlaAT3 transgenic poplar on rhizosphere soil chemical properties, enzyme activity, bacterial community, and metabolites under two nitrogen conditions GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Shengdong Yang, Gang Wang, Minghui Niu, Heng Zhang, Jing Ma, Chunpu Qu, Guanjun Liu
Poplar stands as one of the primary afforestation trees globally. We successfully generated transgenic poplar trees characterized by enhanced biomass under identical nutrient conditions, through th...
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An assessment of the linkages between GM crop biotechnology and climate change mitigation GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Stuart J. Smyth, Peter W. B. Phillips, David Castle
This article provides an analysis and evaluation of peer-reviewed evidence on the contribution of crop biotechnology to climate change mitigation and adaption. While there is a range of agricultura...
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Overexpression of soybean GmDHN9 gene enhances drought resistance of transgenic Arabidopsis GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Jiayi Fan, Yuzhe Zhang, Hongji Sun, Ruijie Duan, Yushi Jiang, Xinyu Wang, Yao Sun, Zhipeng Luo, Peiwu Wang, Shuyan Guan, Siyan Liu, Xuhong Fan, Peng Jiao, Yunpeng Wang, Jinhui Yang, Zunyue Zhang, Huiwei Yu
Soybean is one of the important oil crops and a major source of protein and lipids. Drought can cause severe soybean yields. Dehydrin protein (DHN) is a subfamily of LEA proteins that play an impor...
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In-silico analysis and transformation of OsMYB48 transcription factor driven by CaMV35S promoter in model plant – Nicotiana tabacum L. conferring abiotic stress tolerance GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Yumna Ahmad, Saqlain Haider, Javed Iqbal, Sana Naseer, Kotb A. Attia, Arif Ahmed Mohammed, Sajid Fiaz, Tariq Mahmood
Global crop yield has been affected by a number of abiotic stresses. Heat, salinity, and drought stress are at the top of the list as serious environmental growth-limiting factors. To enhance crop ...
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ShF5H1 overexpression increases syringyl lignin and improves saccharification in sugarcane leaves GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Juan Pablo Portilla Llerena, Eduardo Kiyota, Fernanda Raquel Camilo dos Santos, Julio C. Garcia, Rodrigo Faleiro de Lima, Juliana Lischka Sampaio Mayer, Michael dos Santos Brito, Paulo Mazzafera, Silvana Creste, Paula Macedo Nobile
The agricultural sugarcane residues, bagasse and straws, can be used for second-generation ethanol (2GE) production by the cellulose conversion into glucose (saccharification). However, the lignin ...
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Modeling the economic impact for Chile of an import ban on genetically modified maize GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 William Foster, Jorge Ortega, Gonzalo Vargas
We estimate producer and consumer surplus changes due to a possible GM maize import ban in Chile, which produces only non-GM grains for internal use. Without foreign non-GM sources, the ban’s effec...
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Twenty-eight years of GM Food and feed without harm: why not accept them? GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Richard E. Goodman
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 consume...
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Cloning and functional analysis of ZmMADS42 gene in maize GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Yang Zhao, Jianyu Lu, Bo Hu, Peng Jiao, Bai Gao, Zhenzhong Jiang, Siyan Liu, Shuyan Guan, Yiyong Ma
Maize (Zea mays L.) is the most important cereal crop in the world. Flowering period and photoperiod play important roles in the reproductive development of maize. This study, investigated ZmMADS42...
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Exploring the GMO narrative through labeling: strategies, products, and politics GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Camille D. Ryan, Elizabeth Henggeler, Samantha Gilbert, Andrew J. Schaul, John T. Swarthout
Labels are influential signals in the marketplace intended to inform and to eliminate buyer confusion. Despite this, food labels continue to be the subject of debate. None more so than non-GMO (gen...
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Agricultural chemical use and the rural-urban divide in Canada GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Stuart J. Smyth, Sylvain Charlebois
Innovation is of fundamental importance for improving food production, as well as sustainability food production. Since 1960, food production has benefited from innovations in plant breeding techno...
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An environmental risk assessment of IPD079Ea: a protein derived from Ophioglossum pendulum with activity against Diabrotica spp.In maize GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Bridget F. O’Neill, Chad Boeckman, Kristine LeRoy, Chris Linderblood, Taylor Olson, Rachel Woods, Mary Challender
Farmers in North America face significant pressure from insects in their maize fields, particularly from corn rootworm (Diabrotica spp.). Research into proteins capable of insecticidal activity has...
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Risk-appropriate regulations for gene-editing technologies GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Graham Brookes, Stuart J Smyth
This paper explores the scope for the newly emerging technologies, based on gene editing (GE) contributing to addressing the global challenges that we face. These challenges relate to food security...
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A struggle for control beyond the facts: examining constructs of GM technology in Philippine opinion columns GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Inez Z. Ponce de Leon
GM technology has constantly faced opposition in the Philippines. The debate heightened in 2016, when the Supreme Court halted the field testing of Bt eggplant, which triggered a public debate. Thi...
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The impact of ‘framing’ in the adoption of GM crops GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Madeline M. Esquivel, Siddique I. Aboobucker, Walter P. Suza
Genetically modified (GM) crops offer significant advantages in our crop improvement programs because they are created using a more targeted approach which is not possible in traditional breeding m...
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U.S. consumer support for genetically modified foods: Time trends and assessments of four GM attributes GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Jane Kolodinsky, Nick Rose, Julia Danielsen
There is a large literature about consumer acceptance of GM foods dating back almost three decades, but there are fewer studies that investigate how support for specific GM attributes contribute to...
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CRISPR/Cas9-gene editing approaches in plant breeding GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Himanshu Saini, Rajneesh Thakur, Rubina Gill, Kalpana Tyagi, Manika Goswami
CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system is recently developed robust genome editing technology for accelerating plant breeding. Various modifications of this editing system have been established for adapta...
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Similarities and differences with the ‘general public’: Chinese civil servants’ attitude to genetically modified organisms and its influencing factors GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Zheng Yang, Danfeng Liao, Hepeng Jia
This study examines Chinese civil servants’ attitudes toward genetically modified organisms by reviewing a national survey of 3,018 Chinese civil servants. The findings show that Chinese civil serv...
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Processes for regulating genetically modified and gene edited plants GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 John R Caradus
Innovation in agriculture has been essential in improving productivity of crops and forages to support a growing population, improving living standards while contributing toward maintaining environ...
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Deconstruction of science hegemony: discursive strategies of Chinese science communication on genetically modified foods GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Jinrong Lin
This study analyzes Chinese online science communication and discussion about genetically modified foods (GMFs). Based on data collected from one of the largest Chinese GMFs science popularization ...
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Modification of Fatty Acid Profile and Oil Contents Using Gene Editing in Oilseed Crops for a Changing Climate GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Saeed Rauf, Seerat Fatima, Rodomiro Ortiz
Mutation breeding based on various chemical and physical mutagens induces and disrupts non-target loci. Hence, large populations were required for visual screening, but desired plants were rare and...
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GMO discussion on Twitter GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Dmitry Erokhin, Nadejda Komendantova
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on analyzing discussions related to Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) on Twitter, with a specific focus on the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories. The authors collected and analyzed 1,048,274 English tweets related to GMOs between January 2020 and December 2022 using the Twitter API. The tweets were subjected to topical and sentiment analysis to identify
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Providing appropriate information to consumers boosts the acceptability of genome-edited foods in Japan GM Crops Food (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Chie Taguchi, Norihito Shibata, Keisuke Soga, Satoko Yoshiba, Jumpei Narushima, Miyu Sugino, Kazunari Kondo
ABSTRACT The Japanese Health Ministry recently granted permission for the market distribution of genome-edited (GE) foods, yet there remains a lack of full understanding among consumers regarding this technology. In this study, we conducted a survey to assess the acceptability of GE foods among Japanese consumers and examined the impact of providing information about GE foods on their acceptability