Plant breeding for organic agriculture: something new?
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GM Crops, Organic Agriculture and Breeding for Sustainability
The ongoing debate about the use of genetically-modified (GM) crops in agriculture has largely focused on food safety and genetic contamination issues. Given that the majority of GM crops have been produced to respond to the problem of crop yield reductions caused by diseases, insects and weeds, the paper argues that in those cases, the currently used GM crops are an unstable solution to the pr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Agriculture & Food Security
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2048-7010
DOI: 10.1186/s40066-015-0045-1