GM Crops & FoodPub Date : 2024-04-16DOI: 10.1080/21645698.2024.2339568
Shengdong Yang, Gang Wang, Minghui Niu, Heng Zhang, Jing Ma, Chunpu Qu, Guanjun Liu
{"title":"Impacts of AlaAT3 transgenic poplar on rhizosphere soil chemical properties, enzyme activity, bacterial community, and metabolites under two nitrogen conditions","authors":"Shengdong Yang, Gang Wang, Minghui Niu, Heng Zhang, Jing Ma, Chunpu Qu, Guanjun Liu","doi":"10.1080/21645698.2024.2339568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21645698.2024.2339568","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":501763,"journal":{"name":"GM Crops & Food","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140556661","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 : 2024-04-08DOI: 10.1080/21645698.2024.2335701
Stuart J. Smyth, Peter W. B. Phillips, David Castle
{"title":"An assessment of the linkages between GM crop biotechnology and climate change mitigation","authors":"Stuart J. Smyth, Peter W. B. Phillips, David Castle","doi":"10.1080/21645698.2024.2335701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21645698.2024.2335701","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":501763,"journal":{"name":"GM Crops & Food","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140538360","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}
{"title":"Overexpression of soybean GmDHN9 gene enhances drought resistance of transgenic Arabidopsis","authors":"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","doi":"10.1080/21645698.2024.2327116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21645698.2024.2327116","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":501763,"journal":{"name":"GM Crops & Food","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140346257","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 : 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}
{"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}
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}
{"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}