Focus
Plant Technologies
- Focus issue:
- March 2012 Volume 30, No 3
Sixteen years after the commercialization of crops produced by traditional transgenic technology, a raft of new approaches are opening new opportunities in plant biotechnology. This focus issue of Nature Biotechnology highlights these technologies and their impact on plant breeding and their impact on regulatory oversight.
Editorial
Plant Technologies
Agnostic about agriculture - p197
doi:10.1038/nbt.2168
Averting a global food crisis will require the deconstruction of several hurdles to the deployment of new strategies in plant breeding.
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Data Page
Plant Technologies
Existing agbiotech traits continue global march - p207
Andrew Marshall
doi:10.1038/nbt.2154
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Opinion
Plant Technologies
Confronting the Gordian knot - p208
L Val Giddings, Ingo Potrykus, Klaus Ammann & Nina V Fedoroff
doi:10.1038/nbt.2145
Galvanizing plant science in Europe will depend on an overhaul of the tangle of indefensible regulations themselves, not on the advent of new plant breeding technologies that may escape existing rules.
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News Feature
Plant Technologies
Agbiotech 2.0 - pp211
Daniel Gruskin
doi:10.1038/nbt.2144
As parts of the developing world embrace biotech, the focus is shifting from food production to fuels, industrial chemicals and even drugs. Daniel Grushkin investigates.
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Plant Technologies
Tiptoeing around transgenics - pp215
Emily Waltz
doi:10.1038/nbt.2143
New techniques for manipulating plant genomes are yielding plants touted as nontransgenic. Will that relieve regulatory burden? Emily Waltz investigates.
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Feature
Plant Technologies
Deployment of new biotechnologies in plant breeding - pp231
Maria Lusser, Claudia Parisi, Damien Plan & Emilio Rodríguez-Cerezo
doi:10.1038/nbt.2142
The first crops obtained through new plant breeding techniques are close to commercialization. Regulatory issues will determine the adoption of the techniques by breeders.
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