Selective Breeding, Zinc Fingers and Mutagenesis as Alternatives to GMOs, Business and Industry Trends Analysis

Alternatives to GM seeds include a selective breeding technique that introduces no foreign DNA such as that used in GM seeds.  The technology uses old-school practices in which plants with desirable characteristics such as longer shelf life or resistance to insects are crossbred to create new, hardier specimens.  The new twist to the old technique is the use of genetic markers, which make it much easier to isolate plants with a positive trait along with the gene that causes it.  Newly grown plants can also be quickly tested for the presence of the isolated gene.  The technology cuts traditional selective…

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