USDA’s revised biotechnology regulation’s contribution to increasing agricultural sustainability and responding to climate change

Hoffman, Neil E.

doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.1055529

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“…The change in USDA policy on biotechnological regulation has increased the objectivity in assessment and the feasibility of bringing a product to market. The revisions foster science-and risk-based policy while streamlining the process, increasing sustainability and competition by lowering the burden to commercialize a crop improved through GE (Hoffman, 2022).…”

Section: Technological Advancement Of Transgenic Cropsmentioning

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Methods of crop improvement and applications towards fortifying food security

Patel,

Miles,

Strackhouse

et al. 2023

Front. Genome Ed.

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Agriculture has supported human life from the beginning of civilization, despite a plethora of biotic (pests, pathogens) and abiotic (drought, cold) stressors being exerted on the global food demand. In the past 50 years, the enhanced understanding of cellular and molecular mechanisms in plants has led to novel innovations in biotechnology, resulting in the introduction of desired genes/traits through plant genetic engineering. Targeted genome editing technologies such as Zinc-Finger Nucleases (ZFNs), Transcription Activator-Like Effector Nucleases (TALENs), and Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) have emerged as powerful tools for crop improvement. This new CRISPR technology is proving to be an efficient and straightforward process with low cost. It possesses applicability across most plant species, targets multiple genes, and is being used to engineer plant metabolic pathways to create resistance to pathogens and abiotic stressors. These novel genome editing (GE) technologies are poised to meet the UN’s sustainable development goals of “zero hunger” and “good human health and wellbeing.” These technologies could be more efficient in developing transgenic crops and aid in speeding up the regulatory approvals and risk assessments conducted by the US Departments of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Section: Technological Advancement Of Transgenic Cropsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Methods of crop improvement and applications towards fortifying food security

Patel,

Miles,

Strackhouse

et al. 2023

Front. Genome Ed.

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Advances in Gene Mapping Studies in Tree Nut Crops

Marrano,

Arab,

Bernard

et al. 2023

Annual Plant Reviews Online

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Nut tree species have a great economic and cultural value for many countries across the world. Their highly nutritious content makes them one of the most favourite healthy foods of the global population, with strong evidence of their positive impact on human health. Nut tree crops are very diverse in terms of nut chemical content and shape, growing climates, and domestication history. However, all of them have a very long juvenile phase that makes classical breeding challenging and time consuming. Also, their cultivation is very resource demanding. The application of genomic‐assisted breeding can accelerate the development of adaptive cultivars of nut tree species. In this article, we summarize recent successes in genomics for nut tree crops, specifically almond, chestnut, hazelnut, pecan, pistachio, and walnut. We report the recent discoveries on the genetic control of target traits for the genetic improvement of these species, with suggestions for future directions and breeding applications.

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