Certain new plant breeding techniques and their marketability in the context of EU GMO legislation – recent developments

New Biotechnology

Volumn 51, Issue , 2019, Pages 49-56

  Zimny, Tomasz ^a   Sowa, Sławomir ^b   Tyczewska, Agata ^c   Twardowski, Tomasz ^c  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b PLANT BREEDING AND ACCLIMATIZATION INSTITUTE NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

CRISPR; Genome editing; GMO; Law; Marketability; New breeding techniques; Targeted mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COMMERCE; MUTAGENESIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

BREEDING TECHNIQUES; CRISPR; DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; EUROPEAN CONTEXT; EUROPEAN UNION; LEGAL UNCERTAINTY; MARKETABILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC ASPECTS;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

ADOPTION; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; EUROPEAN UNION; GENE EDITING; INVESTMENT; JURISPRUDENCE; LANDSCAPE; LAW; NONHUMAN; PLANT BREEDING; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; UNCERTAINTY; VARIETAS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENETICS; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; EUROPEAN UNION; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANT BREEDING;

EID: 85061987562     PISSN: 18716784     EISSN: 18764347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2019.02.003     Document Type: Review

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