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ArticleEMBO reports2020

The evolving landscape around genome editing in agriculture: Many countries have exempted or move to exempt forms of genome editing from GMO regulation of crop plants.

Sarah M Schmidt, Melinda Belisle, Wolf B Frommer

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Article in EMBO reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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73citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

73 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  16. RNAi and genome editing of sugarcane: Progress and prospects.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2025
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13 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Sarah M SchmidtHeinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Melinda BelisleBill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA.
Wolf B FrommerHeinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6465-0115

Funding

Alexander von Humboldt ProfessorshipBill and Melinda Gates Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The EU and New Zealand are the only legislations where genome-edited plants are considered and regulated as GMOs while many other countries move to exempt genome-edited crops.

Indexed as

Crops, AgriculturalGene EditingAgricultureGenomePlants, Genetically Modified

Identifiers

PMID32431018
PMCPMC7271327

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