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Engineered safflower with enhanced omega-6 fatty acid
SOURCE: Arcadia Bioscienceshttp://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2008/02/18/daily48.html?b=1203310800%5E1595841
New rice variety with higher protein and lysine content created by crossing cultivated and wild rice varieties
SOURCE: Mahmoud, A.A., Sukumar, S. and Krishnan, H.B. 2008. Interspecific Rice Hybrid of Oryza sativa × Oryza nivara Reveals a Significant Increase in Seed Protein Content. J. Agric. Food Chem. 56: 476–482
Altering transport gene in carrot results in more bioavailable calcium
SOURCE: Morris, J., Hawthorne, K.M., Hotze, T., Abrams, S.A. and Hirschi, K.D. 2008. Nutritional impact of elevated calcium transport activity in carrots. PNAS 10.1073/pnas.0709005105.
Natural mutation results in cow that produces skimmed milk
SOURCE: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070528/sc_afp/nzealandsciencemilk
SOURCE: Sunilkumar et al. 2006. Engineering cottonseed for use in human nutrition by tissue-specific reduction of toxic gossypol. PNAS 103: 18054-18059.
Significant reduction in toxic gossypol in Significant reduction in toxic gossypol in cotton seeds could provide nutritional cotton seeds could provide nutritional
source for humans and animalssource for humans and animals
SOURCE: Uauy et al. 2006. A NAC gene regulating senescence improves grain protein, zinc, and iron content in wheat. Science 314: 1298-1301.
Gene from wild wheat could improve Gene from wild wheat could improve nutritional value of cultivated wheatnutritional value of cultivated wheat
SOURCE: Diaz de la Garza, R.I., Jesse F. Gregory III, J.F. and Hanson, A.D. 2007. Folate biofortification of tomato fruit. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104: 4218-4222.
Introduction of single bacterial gene increases folate levels in tomato to levels comparable to spinach
SOURCE: Rein, D., Schijlen, E., Kooistra, T., Herbers, K., Verschuren, L., Hall, R., Sonnewald, U., Bovy, A. and Kleemann, R. 2006. Transgenic Flavonoid Tomato Intake Reduces C-Reactive Protein in Human C-Reactive Protein Transgenic Mice More Than Wild-Type Tomato. J. Nutr. 136: 2331-2337.
Flavonoid-enriched GE tomato has lower levels Flavonoid-enriched GE tomato has lower levels of protein associated with high risk of of protein associated with high risk of
cardiovascular diseasecardiovascular disease
SOURCE: Park et al. 2005. Genetic Manipulation for Enhancing Calcium Content in Potato Tuber. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 53: 5598-5603.
Engineered potato containsEngineered potato contains3 times more calcium3 times more calcium
SOURCE: http://www.ifrn.bbsrc.ac.uk/Media/NewsReleases/051207broccoli.html
““Super BroccoliSuper Broccoli”” created by classical genetics contains created by classical genetics contains 3.4x sulforaphane, potential anti-cancer agent3.4x sulforaphane, potential anti-cancer agent
Deregulation of High Lysine Corn for Animal Deregulation of High Lysine Corn for Animal Feed - Reduces Need for Lysine SupplementsFeed - Reduces Need for Lysine Supplements
February 2006February 2006
Deregulation of High Lysine Corn for Animal Deregulation of High Lysine Corn for Animal Feed - Reduces Need for Lysine SupplementsFeed - Reduces Need for Lysine Supplements
February 2006February 2006
SOURCE:February 2006, BIOSPACEhttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=8883&full=1
SOURCE: Arcadia Biosciences
Safflower Oil Safflower Oil Enhanced withEnhanced with
Omega-6 Fatty AcidsOmega-6 Fatty Acids
SOURCE: Wirth, J., Poletti, S., Aeschlimann, B., Yakandawala, N., Drosse, B., Osorio, S., Tohge, T., Fernie, A.R., Günther, D., Gruissem, W. and Sautter, C. 2009. Rice endosperm iron biofortification by targeted and synergistic action of nicotianamine synthase and ferritin. Plant Biotechnology Journal 7: 1–14.
Engineered rice with 6-times more ironEngineered rice with 6-times more ironin polished ricein polished rice
The Contraction of Product Quality Innovation in Agricultural BiotechnologyThe Contraction of Product Quality Innovation in Agricultural Biotechnology
SOURCE: Graff, G.D., Zilberman, D. and Bennett, A.B. 2009. The contraction of agbiotech product quality innovation in agricultural biotechnology.
Nature Biotechnology, in press (August, 2009).
Surveys of actual and expected progress in ten categories of product quality innovations with transgenic plants.
SOURCE: “Comment period opens on biotech potato”, Truth About Trade & Technology, 5/2/13http://www.truthabouttrade.org/2013/05/03/comment-period-opens-on-biotech-potato/
Low acrylamide, low sugar bruising resistance in potato engineered only with potato DNA – under
consideration for deregulation by APHIS
Low acrylamide, low sugar bruising resistance in potato engineered only with potato DNA – under
consideration for deregulation by APHIS