Genetically modified plants

Genetically modified plants

Have you ever dealt with corn flakes and orange juice or toast in your breakfast? If you've bought from the shop they often foods and genetically modified foods.  
We amended man in the centuries-old recipes plants by selective hybridization, scientists were unable to modify the genetic storage plants only recently.

 What genetically modified plants? Genetic engineering before knowing there was a hybridization election, if infected mold corn crop, for example, the farmer selects seeds from plants that did not show the injury. If the farmer continues to elect the seeds from the plants did not suffer mushroom consists .We have a strain of fungi-resistant plants over time.

Scientists in recent years from the transfer of genes between species of plants to be changed, the resistance genes of insects or diseases transferred from the strain of the plant to another strain of the same type, and, in general, the plants that produce the transfer of genes between species are safe to eat.

Was produced in 1994 the first genetically modified food, namely tomato fruits do not ripen prematurely, do not become susceptible to damage quickly, and become available for all people.


What are the benefits of genetically modified plants? In addition to tomatoes that do not damage quickly produced other modifications seeds have improved nutritional value can be used in industrial products.

As has been the production of plants with resistance to pesticides and herbal viruses and diseases, and vegetable products with a longer storage period, also produced plants resistant to harsh environmental conditions. Thus, the farmers become more productive crops, and land used more efficiently, and is currently being tested some genetically modified plants to produce drugs against diseases such as: AIDS, tuberculosis, diabetes and rabies.

What disadvantages of genetically modified plants? Drawback lays president of genetically modified plants in the long-term potential dangers, as there is a risk the possibility of entering the modified genes to wild animals (purebred). Was actually among scientists that plants carrying genes (Trans) appreciate on aqueous vaccination with other plants twenty times of plants that occur by natural mutations.

The gene interval (Jane end) terminator more amendments genetic controversial, Plants that have this gene cannot seed germination, and this means that the farmer cannot select seeds from his crop current for agriculture in the future, and is collecting seeds in many countries the only way to get the source of seed for cultivation in the seasons to come, the company has stopped the owner of the patent for its development, although it has the option to resume its activities in the future.