GM Crops & FoodPub Date : 2024-03-20DOI: 10.1080/21645698.2024.2325180
William Foster, Jorge Ortega, Gonzalo Vargas
{"title":"Modeling the economic impact for Chile of an import ban on genetically modified maize","authors":"William Foster, Jorge Ortega, Gonzalo Vargas","doi":"10.1080/21645698.2024.2325180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21645698.2024.2325180","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":501763,"journal":{"name":"GM Crops & Food","volume":"141 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140164664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GM Crops & FoodPub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.1080/21645698.2023.2290752
Inez Z. Ponce de Leon
{"title":"A struggle for control beyond the facts: examining constructs of GM technology in Philippine opinion columns","authors":"Inez Z. Ponce de Leon","doi":"10.1080/21645698.2023.2290752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21645698.2023.2290752","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":501763,"journal":{"name":"GM Crops & Food","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138771013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GM Crops & FoodPub Date : 2023-12-15DOI: 10.1080/21645698.2023.2275723
Madeline M. Esquivel, Siddique I. Aboobucker, Walter P. Suza
{"title":"The impact of ‘framing’ in the adoption of GM crops","authors":"Madeline M. Esquivel, Siddique I. Aboobucker, Walter P. Suza","doi":"10.1080/21645698.2023.2275723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21645698.2023.2275723","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":501763,"journal":{"name":"GM Crops & Food","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138657569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GM Crops & FoodPub Date : 2022-12-31DOI: 10.1080/21645698.2022.2140678
Paresh Kumar Sarma, Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Ismat Ara Begum
{"title":"Farmers' knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards the adoption of hybrid rice production in Bangladesh: an PLS-SEM approach.","authors":"Paresh Kumar Sarma, Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Ismat Ara Begum","doi":"10.1080/21645698.2022.2140678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21645698.2022.2140678","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although the government policy supports the adoption of hybrid rice in Bangladesh but there is no significant progress has been made over the last decades. The study aimed to determine farmers' knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAPs) of hybrid rice adoption, and the causal relationship between them in Bangladesh. Using a stratified random sampling technique, 244 cross-sectional surveys were done from the Sherpur district of Bangladesh. The descriptive statistics, two-round Delphi method, and partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) were used to estimate latent variables and identify the causal relationship between KAPs. The results revealed that farmers' knowledge and attitudes were directly and significantly associated with the adoption of hybrid rice. This implies that farmers who are well informed about the usage of hybrid rice and are likely to embrace it and raise their revenue, can be influenced by knowledge. The study found a significant positive role for knowledge about hybrid rice, attitudes, and practices in adopting hybrid rice. This study provides a primary understanding of the relationship between psychological factors and the adoption of hybrid rice technology to increase rice farm productivity. The findings suggest that policymakers, researchers and development agencies should focus on farmers' psychological factors in improving the adoption of hybrid rice in Bangladesh.</p>","PeriodicalId":501763,"journal":{"name":"GM Crops & Food","volume":" ","pages":"327-341"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9683048/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40700350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GM Crops & FoodPub Date : 2022-12-31DOI: 10.1080/21645698.2022.2149212
Gideon Sadikiel Mmbando
{"title":"Challenges and prospects in using biotechnological interventions in <i>O. glaberrima</i>, an African cultivated rice.","authors":"Gideon Sadikiel Mmbando","doi":"10.1080/21645698.2022.2149212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21645698.2022.2149212","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Africa has the world's fastest rate of population expansion, making it vulnerable to food shortages. Africa cultivates two types of rice (Asian rice; <i>Oryza sativa</i> and African rice; <i>Oryza glaberrima</i>). Native African rice called <i>O. glaberrima</i> has some intriguing characteristics, including resistance to several biotic and abiotic regional restrictions in Africa. However, <i>O. glaberrima</i> is solely employed as a tool to increase the production of <i>O. sativa</i>, which cannot grow in Africa, due to its low yield, lodging, grain breaking, and poor tissue culture ability. Enhancing breeding efforts for <i>O. glaberrima</i> is therefore critically important. The protocols for transformation and regeneration, however, are mostly for <i>O. sativa</i> and not <i>O. glaberrima</i>. This study examines the present problems with transformation and regeneration for African rice species as well as potential solutions for using modern breeding methods in <i>O. glaberrima</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":501763,"journal":{"name":"GM Crops & Food","volume":" ","pages":"372-387"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9718565/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40714111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GM Crops & FoodPub Date : 2022-12-31DOI: 10.1080/21645698.2022.2103368
Monica Racovita, Armin Spök
{"title":"Strategic science translation in emerging science: genetically modified crops and Bisphenol A in two cases of contested animal toxicity studies.","authors":"Monica Racovita, Armin Spök","doi":"10.1080/21645698.2022.2103368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21645698.2022.2103368","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When controversies develop around scientific facts or technologies, the potential of science to become a tool in plays of interests and power between different actors is not well recognized. Cordner's concept of Strategic Science Translation (SST) shows that such actions are enabled by the uncertainty and the complexity of the scientific processes that allow the use of science in support of various, often contradictory interests and goals. Two high-profile controversies around animal toxicity studies in two different fields of European regulatory science (genetically modified food and food contact materials) were chosen as case studies to explore and expand the SST concept. Both studies involve emerging science issues, emphasizing tensions between regulatory and academic science. Communications from key Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and industry groups were used for analysis of each controversy. We found that both groups of actors try to present their own interpretation of scientific results, taking advantage of the lack of scientific consensus, of the uncertainties associated with the negotiation in the interpretation of results, and of the wider scientific and political context. In the same time, each actor attempts to challenge the credibility of the other. The lack of formal acknowledgment of the limitations of the emerging scientific fields, as well as of different research approaches between regulatory and academic research contribute to the continuation of controversies in the public domain, as the public cannot easily assess the information presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":501763,"journal":{"name":"GM Crops & Food","volume":" ","pages":"142-155"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9367667/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40596577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improvement of cold tolerance in maize (<i>Zea mays</i> L.) using <i>Agrobacterium</i>-mediated transformation of <i>ZmSAMDC</i> gene.","authors":"Peng Jiao, Shiyou Jin, Nannan Chen, Chunlai Wang, Siyan Liu, Jing Qu, Shuyan Guan, Yiyong Ma","doi":"10.1080/21645698.2022.2097831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21645698.2022.2097831","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Maize (<i>Zea mays</i> L.) is a food crop sensitive to low temperatures. As one of the abiotic stress hazards, low temperatures seriously affect the yield of maize. However, the genetic basis of low-temperature adaptation in maize is still poorly understood. In this study, maize S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase <i>(SAMDC</i>) was localized to the nucleus. We used <i>Agrobacterium</i>-mediated transformation technology to introduce the <i>SAMDC</i> gene into an excellent maize inbred line variety GSH9901 and produced a cold-tolerant transgenic maize line. After three years of single-field experiments, the contents of polyamines (PAs), proline (Pro), malondialdehyde (MDA), antioxidant enzymes and ascorbate peroxidases (APXs) in the leaves of the transgenic maize plants overexpressing the <i>SAMDC</i> gene significantly increased, and the expression of elevated <i>CBF</i> and cold-responsive genes effectively increased. The agronomic traits of the maize overexpressing the <i>SAMDC</i> gene changed, and the yield traits significantly improved. However, no significant changes were found in plant height, ear length, and shaft thickness. Therefore, <i>SAMDC</i> enzymes can effectively improve the cold tolerance of maize.</p>","PeriodicalId":501763,"journal":{"name":"GM Crops & Food","volume":" ","pages":"131-141"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9291676/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40608396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Amenability of an <i>Agrobacterium tumefaciens-</i>mediated shoot apical meristem-targeted <i>in planta</i> transformation strategy in Mango (<i>Mangifera indica</i> L.).","authors":"Kuldeep Pandey, Kesiraju Karthik, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Vinod, Rohini Sreevathsa, Manish Srivastav","doi":"10.1080/21645698.2022.2141014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21645698.2022.2141014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mango (<i>Mangifera indica</i> L.) is one of the most popular tropical fruits in the world owing to its rich taste, flavor, color, production volume and diverse end usage. Conventional mango breeding practices are unable to withstand the demand for improved varieties as it is time consuming and requires heavy investment. However, problems associated with traditional plant breeding can be curtailed through genetic transformation. Nevertheless, major limitation of transgenic development has been its recalcitrant nature toward tissue culture practices involving latent microbial infection, phenol exudation, etc. This opens wide scope for tissue culture-independent <i>in planta</i> transformation approaches These strategies have proved to be easy to execute and cost effective in producing large number of transformants. One such apical meristem targeted <i>in planta</i> approach was successfully exploited to demonstrate its utility in transforming a tree species. Mango variety Amrapali was transformed with two visual marker gene vectors <i>GFP::hptII</i> in pCAMBIA1302 and <i>GUS::nptII</i> in pCAMBIA2301 individually, to demonstrate its amenability. Preliminary confirmations identified 65.0% of <i>GFP</i> and 57.14% of <i>GUS</i> plants to be transformed. Further, molecular characterization of these primary transformants demonstrated transgene integration at genomic and transcript level in some of the plants. This established protocol holds good for functional gene validation and knock in/out studies and aid in mango improvement programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":501763,"journal":{"name":"GM Crops & Food","volume":" ","pages":"342-354"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9704399/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40703902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GM Crops & FoodPub Date : 2022-12-31DOI: 10.1080/21645698.2022.2051243
Sarah Evanega, Joan Conrow, Jordan Adams, Mark Lynas
{"title":"The state of the 'GMO' debate - toward an increasingly favorable and less polarized media conversation on ag-biotech?","authors":"Sarah Evanega, Joan Conrow, Jordan Adams, Mark Lynas","doi":"10.1080/21645698.2022.2051243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21645698.2022.2051243","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although nearly three decades have passed since genetically modified crops (so-called 'GMOs') were widely commercialized, vociferous debate remains about the use of biotechnology in agriculture, despite a worldwide scientific consensus on their safety and utility. This study analyzes the volume and tenor of the GMO conversation as it played out on social and traditional media between 2018 and 2020, looking at 103,084 online and print articles published in English-language media around the world as well as 1,716,071 social media posts. To our knowledge, our analysis is the first comprehensive survey of the shifting traditional and online media discourse on this issue during this time period. While the volume of traditional media coverage of GMOs increased significantly during the period, this was combined with a dramatic drop in the volume of social media posts of over 80%. Traditional media tended to be somewhat more positive in their coverage than social media in 2018 and 2019, but that gap disappeared in 2020. Both traditional and social media saw trends toward increasing favorability, with the positive trend especially robust in social media. The large decline in volume of social media posts, combined with a strong trend toward greater favorability, may indicate a drop in the salience of the GMO debate among the wider population even while the volume of coverage in traditional media increased. Overall, our results suggest that both social and traditional media may be moving toward a more favorable and less polarized conversation on ag-biotech overall.</p>","PeriodicalId":501763,"journal":{"name":"GM Crops & Food","volume":" ","pages":"38-49"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8959534/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40315799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GM Crops & FoodPub Date : 2022-12-31DOI: 10.1080/21645698.2022.2145838
Qi Zhang, Ye Shen, Zhiwei Jiang, Xiaona Cheng, Yue Jin, Chengyu Shi
{"title":"Exploring the Inhibitory Effect of RASFF on China-EU Trade of Rice-Based Products.","authors":"Qi Zhang, Ye Shen, Zhiwei Jiang, Xiaona Cheng, Yue Jin, Chengyu Shi","doi":"10.1080/21645698.2022.2145838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21645698.2022.2145838","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rice-based products exported from China to Europe have repeatedly encountered technical trade barriers. Using panel data from 24 states of the European Union during 2001-2017, this study builds a theoretical model to investigate the impact of implementation, intensity and structure of the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) on China-EU rice-based product trade. The study found that RASFF has a serious inhibitory effect on the trade of traditional rice-based products because of detecting GM ingredients, showing an obvious lag effect, diffusion effect and structure effect. The negative effect occurs in entry process, and the inhibitory effect of border rejection and information notifications results in time lag, but the marginal effect of alerts for market links is insignificant. Moreover, the positive information disclosure effect of technical barriers implemented by individual members is much smaller than the negative diffusion effect. Finally, countermeasures and suggestions are proposed, including the source supervision of the test, the supervision of GM variety approval and GM seed production, the establishment of an early-warning and rapid-response mechanism to technical barriers of agricultural products, and food enterprise information.</p>","PeriodicalId":501763,"journal":{"name":"GM Crops & Food","volume":" ","pages":"355-371"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/48/34/KGMC_13_2145838.PMC9704391.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40703899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}