Regulatory hurdles for genome editing: process- vs. product-based approaches in different regulatory contexts

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1493-1506

  Sprink, Thorben ^a   Eriksson, Dennis ^b   Schiemann, Joachim ^a   Hartung, Frank ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CRISPR Cas9; Genetic engineering; Genome editing; New plant breeding techniques; ODM; Regulation; Site directed nucleases

Indexed keywords

CROP; EUROPEAN UNION; GENE EDITING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD; GENETICS; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; PLANT; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT GENOME; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; TRANSGENIC PLANT; UNITED STATES;

CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GENE EDITING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, PLANT; PLANT BREEDING; PLANTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84965013564     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-016-1990-2     Document Type: Article

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