GMO Pipeline Features Consumer Targeted Modifications
April 15, 2016 The newly approved GMO Simplot Innate potato, developed to produce lower amounts of the harmful-yet-natural chemical acrylamide, resist bruising, and improve starch quality and potato color, represents a new generation of genetic modification in food, opines GeneticLiteracyProject.org’s Andrew Porterfield in a recent column on the evolution of GMO technologies.
These multiple traits can directly benefit consumers in ways previous transgenics did not (and one could argue that the RNAi technology behind this potato was not exactly transgenic).
But there are challenges to developing more foods like the Innate potato. These include a lack of public sector research on these new innovations, and the need for agribusinesses and newly created international organizations to get more involved in their research, development and commercialization.
Read Porterfield’s full report here.
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