Source: Ronald Herring, GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 1/30/18


Political and social controversies, as well as complications of plant breeding, intellectual property, and regulation, have compromised the promised impact of genetically engineered – typically transgenic – crops designated as “GMOs.” For the time being, Sweden, Canada, and the United States have decided to not classify genome-edited plants as GMOs. The reasoning is the absence of transgenesis in genome-edited crops: no “foreign” DNA need be involved.

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