Golden Rice - Home Page. The Golden Rice - An Exercise in How Not to Do Science. See also The Golden Rice Scandal Unfolds The ‘golden rice’ - a GM rice engineered to produce pro-Vitamin A - is being offered to the Third World as cure for widespread vitamin A deficiency.
The audit uncovers fundamental deficiencies in all aspects, from the scientific/social rationale to the science and technology involved. It is being promoted in order to salvage a morally as well as financially bankrupt agricultural biotech industry. The scientific/social rationalization for the project exposes a reductionist self-serving scientific paradigm that fails to see the world beyond its own narrow confines.
The ‘golden rice’ is a useless application. ‘Golden rice’ is not a ‘second generation’ GM crop as has been claimed. Key Words: ‘Golden rice’, vitamin A deficiency, Green Revolution, sustainable science, GM technology, gene patents, GM constructs A gift-horse for the poor. Los cultivos transgénicos ocupan ya el 10% de la superficie agrícola de todo el mundo. La superficie acumulada de cultivos biotecnológicos desde que inició su comercialización en 1996 supera las 1.000 millones de hectáreas.
Sólo en el 2010 se cultivaron 148 millones de hectáreas, por parte de 15,4 millones de agricultores en 29 países. Estos datos forman parte del más reciente informe del Servicio Internacional para la Adquisición de Aplicaciones Agrobiotecnológicas (ISAAA, por sus siglas en inglés) sobre la Situación mundial de la comercialización de cultivos biotecnológicos, que fue socializado y analizado en una videoconferencia hemisférica organizada por el Área de Biotecnología y Bioseguridad del Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA).
El informe revela que el cultivo ha tenido un crecimiento anual sostenido del 10% durante estos 15 años. International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications - ISAAA.org. Greenpeace India. Countries Growing GMOs. Golden Rice Project Home Page. GM Contamination Register. Genetically Modified Organisms Pros and Cons. The issue of genetically modified organisms is drawing unprecedented media attention due to its potential of bringing about fundamental changes in the genetic make up of living beings.
Following paragraphs throw some light on this controversial subject. What are Genetically Modified Organisms? The genetically modified organisms or GMOs are the animals and plants that are genetically modified in order to develop the useful or desired traits. The techniques used to carry out genetic modification are known as genetic engineering techniques. The recombinant DNA technology is used for creating a new set of genes by combining the DNA molecules from different sources. Pros and Cons of Genetically Modifying Organisms The idea of modifying an organism genetically sounds exciting however, the genetically modified organisms pros and cons have not been studied on a long term till date.
Production of Human Insulin: Patients suffering from diabetes are not capable of producing enough insulin. Wageningen UR - RIKILT - Institute of Food Safety - Comparable Assessment for Cisgenic and Transgenic Plants. Cisgenics, intragenics, and non-browning apples - GM lobby doublespeak. 1.
A scientist's comments on intragenics/cisgenics2. USDA asked to approve non-browning GMO apple 3. Food for thought - Jim Hightower article about GM non-browning apple NOTE: For several years, genetic engineers have promoted branches of GM called "cisgenics" and "intragenics", which use genes from the species of interest or related species - as distinct from "transgenics", which uses genes from an unrelated species.
They tout "cisgenic"/"intragenic" food as a safer and more publicly acceptable option than "transgenic" food on the claimed grounds that no foreign genes are introduced: An article on the pro-GM Biofortified website, "Cisgenics - Transgenics without the Transgene", bluntly states the PR value of "cisgenics": "the central theme is to placate the misinformed public opinion by using clever technologies to circumvent traditional unfounded criticisms of biotechnology. " The word "intragenic" implies that one is engineering genes within the genome of a single species. The U.S. Cisgenesis. Potatoes after treatment with Phytophthora infestans.
The normal potatoes have blight but the cisgenic potatoes are healthy Cisgenesis is a product designation for a category of genetically engineered plants. A variety of classification schemes have been proposed [1] that order genetically modified organisms based on the nature of introduced genotypical changes, rather than the process of genetic engineering. Cisgenesis (from "same" and "beginning") is one term for organisms that have been engineered using a process in which genes are artificially transferred between organisms that could otherwise be conventionally bred.[2][3] Unlike in transgenesis, genes are only transferred between closely related organisms.[4] However, while future technologies may allow genomes to be directly edited within an individual organism, currently nucleic acid sequences must be isolated and introduced using the same technologies that are used to produce transgenic organisms.
Diagram[edit] References[edit] Biologia Texto : GENETIC ENGINEERING: TRANSGENIC, INTRAGENIC AND CISGENIC MODIFICATIONS.