who produces genetically modified crops?

Answer 1

A large number of Multinational companies are marketing the GM crop seeds. The major giants in this field are Monsanto, Syngenta, Pro-agro, Dupont and many others. They are tying up with local seed companies to market their genes.

Answer 2

A genetically modified food is a food product derived in whole or part from a genetically modified organism (GMO) such as a crop plant, animal or microbe, such as yeast. Genetically modified foods produced by genetic engineering have been available since the 1990s. The principal ingredients of these GM foods are derived from soybean, maize, canola and cottonseed oil.

Some governments, such as those in the European Union and Japan, have emphasised risks over benefits from GM foods and require mandatory labelling and traceability, while others, such as the United States, have regulatory agencies that have no such requirements. This has led to the United States claiming that bans on the sale of GM products violate free trade agreements and has resulted in trade wars over the requirements for GM food products. [1] Many scientific institutions, even in the European Union and Japan, however, do not judge the risk of unintended changes in composition of GM foods to exceed the risk currently exhibited by conventional crops.
The origins of genetic engineering represent a series of sequential scientific advances from the discovery of DNA to the production of the first recombinant bacteria (E .coli) expressing a frog gene in 1973.[3] This led to concerns in the scientific community about the possible risks from genetic engineering and led to biologists meeting at the Asilomar Conference in Pacific Grove, California. The recommendations layed out from this conference were that government oversight of recombinant DNA research should be established until the technology was deemed safe.[4][5] Herbert Boyer then founded the first company to use recombinant DNA technology, Genentech, and in 1978 the company announced that it had produced a strain of E. coli that could produce the human insulin protein. [6]

Transgenic crops are grown commercially or in field trials in over 40 countries and on 6 continents. In 2000, about 109.2 million acres (442,000 km²) were planted with transgenic crops, the principal ones being herbicide- and insecticide-resistant soybeans, corn, cotton, and canola. Other crops grown commercially or field-tested are a sweet potato resistant to a US strain of a virus that affects one out of the more than 89 different varieties of sweet potato grown in Africa, rice with increased iron and vitamins such as golden rice, maize with enhanced levels of the essential nutrient lysine which provides better quality protein for animal feeds, and a variety of plants able to better tolerate non-biological stresses which are commonly encountered in a normal growing season, such as water [7],[8],[9] and nitrogen limitation, or survive extreme growing conditions, such as high-salinity [10] or acidic soils, or hot weather. Such traits can provide more reliable crop performance over an extended period of cultivation.

Answer 3

Only the United States allows geneitally mutated food to be sold to consomers. The EU has outright banned the sale of all genitically engineered crops, and most other nations do not have the technological advances necessary to produce them.

Answer 4

the two a and b, yet b is in all probability perfect GM vegetation will help feed greater human beings (b/c, case in point, they make nutrition it extremely is larger, so greater human beings can eat it) inspite of the incontrovertible fact that it additionally makes greater desirable use of the land, simply by fact a greater nutritious nutrition could be grown interior an identical volume of area. its no longer c, b/c maximum situations you could no longer flavor a distinction between GM and non-GM meals

Answer 5

i tried the other day but got some on my hands,and now my hands are 10 feet thick so i stopped.

Answer 6

everyone, unless their certified organic