Genetically Modified Plants

Most people with genetically modified plants eat hamburgers if they know that cattle offering beef has sheep genes. How about bacon from pigs with characteristics of sheep? More often, they refuse to consume such products and condemn them as unstable and irresponsible. These protests by mixed genetics may begin. Although this gene tampering has occurred in plants for many years, most consumers do not think twice about buying products from these genetically modified plants.

The first transgenic plants were produced using antibiotic resistant tobacco plants in 1983. Transgenic microbial enzymes are the first applications of genetically modified organisms in food production and were approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 1988. In the early 1990s, recombinant rennet was approved for use in several countries. Cheese is usually made using the enzyme complex chymosin extracted from bovine stomach. Scientists remodeled the bacteria to produce chymosin.

Through training, I am a plant biologist. In the early 1990s, I was working on genetically modified plants (often called genetically modified organisms) as part of my research leading to doctoral programs. In these plants, DNA such as viruses and bacteria is extracted from various foreign organisms. Initially, I did not care about the impact of genetically modified plants on human health and the environment. One reason for this lack of attention is that I am still a very young scientist who feels my way in the complex world of biology and scientific research. Another reason is that we do not think much about GMOs that we are planted and eaten. To the best of my knowledge, all GMOs are for research purposes only.

Borlaug believes that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are the only way to increase food production as the world run out of unused farmland. "We have engineered plants and animals for a long time and people have chosen the best varieties before calling science," GMO is not inherently dangerous. Hunger: With comments on the biotechnology commitment and the publication of the Anti-Science Frenzy threat, the authors believe that Borlaug's warning still exists in 2010,