GMO Acceptance in the World and Issues for the Overcoming of Restrictions: Cisgenesis, RNA Transfer, Rootstock to Shoot Delivery, Novel Methods of Transformation
Chapter
Publication Date:
2016
abstract:
An overview is provided on transgenesis, cisgenesis, alternative and innovative methods of genetic modification to obtain Novel Plant Products, as well as non-GM methods based on mutagenesis. Finally, the various assessment regulations around the world are discussed, and the need for harmonization among different states. Novel Plant Products, in many cases, could go through a simplified authorization process due to the assimilation to traditional breeding and mutagenesis techniques.
Iris type:
02.01 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)
Keywords:
Novel Plant Products (NPP); herbicide tolerance (HT); insect resistance (IR); virus resistance (VR); product quality (PQ) trait; agronomic (AG) trait; male sterility (MS); European Food Safety Agency (EFSA); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Food and Drug Administration (FDA); acetolactate synthetase (ALH); acetohydroxy acid synthetase (AHAS); imidazolinones; RNA interference (RNAi); Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs); effector triggered immunity (ETI); Pathogen Associated Molecular Pattern (PAMP) based innate immunity; hypersensitive response; Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) sequences; CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9); single-guide RNA (sgRNA); chimeric guide RNAs (cgRNA); zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs); transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs); Nuclease-Based Gene Targeting (NBGT); gene editing; non-homologous end joining (NHEJ); homologous recombination (HR); insertion/deletion; Seed Production Technology (SPT); reverse breeding (RB); oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis (ODM)
List of contributors:
Poltronieri, Palmiro
Book title:
BioTransformation of Agricultural Waste and By-Products. The Food, Feed, Fibre, Fuel (4F) Economy.