Grafting of Genetically Engineered Plants

Risks and Benefits of Genetically Engineered Plants

Genetically engineered plants: greener than you think

Healthy, productive farmland separates humans from famine, making wise agricultural practices crucial to everyone. Plant scientists at universities and companies throughout the world endeavour to improve the quality, quantity, safety and sustainability of agricultural production, and their efforts have proven highly successful. Despite the remarkable success of a number of genetically engineere...

The ecological risks and benefits of genetically engineered plants.

Discussions of the environmental risks and benefits of adopting genetically engineered organisms are highly polarized between pro- and anti-biotechnology groups, but the current state of our knowledge is frequently overlooked in this debate. A review of existing scientific literature reveals that key experiments on both the environmental risks and benefits are lacking. The complexity of ecologi...

Genetically engineered plants in the product development pipeline in India

In order to proactively identify emerging issues that may impact the risk assessment and risk management functions of the Indian biosafety regulatory system, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change sought to understand the nature and diversity of genetically engineered crops that may move to product commercialization within the next 10 y. This paper describes the findings from a...

Genetically Engineered Mesenchymal Stem Cells Stably Expressing Green Fluorescent Protein

Objective(s) Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are nonhematopoietic stromal cells that are capable of differentiating into and contribute to the regeneration of mesenchymal tissues. Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) are ideal targets in cell transplantation and tissue engineering. Enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) has been an important reporter gene for gene therapy. The aim of this stu...