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ReviewPlant biotechnology journal2021

Expert opinions on the regulation of plant genome editing.

Rim Lassoued, Peter W B Phillips, Diego Maximiliano Macall, Hayley Hesseln, Stuart J Smyth

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Review in Plant biotechnology journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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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

30 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

5 authors.

Rim LassouedDepartment of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7435-9935
Peter W B PhillipsThe Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
Diego Maximiliano MacallDepartment of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
Hayley HesselnDepartment of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
Stuart J SmythDepartment of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-0837-8617

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Global food security is largely affected by factors such as environmental (e.g. drought, flooding), social (e.g. gender inequality), socio-economic (e.g. overpopulation, poverty) and health (e.g. diseases). In response, extensive public and private investment in agricultural research has focused on increasing yields of staple food crops and developing new traits for crop improvement. New breeding techniques pioneered by genome editing have gained substantial traction within the last decade, revolutionizing the plant breeding field. Both industry and academia have been investing and working to optimize the potentials of gene editing and to bring derived crops to market. The spectrum of cutting-edge genome editing tools along with their technical differences has led to a growing international regulatory, ethical and societal divide. This article is a summary of a multi-year survey project exploring how experts view the risks of new breeding techniques, including genome editing and their related regulatory requirements. Surveyed experts opine that emerging biotechnologies offer great promise to address social and climate challenges, yet they admit that the market growth of genome-edited crops will be limited by an ambiguous regulatory environment shaped by societal uncertainty.

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Gene EditingPlant BreedingGenome, PlantPlants, Genetically ModifiedCRISPRfood securityinnovationnew breeding techniquesriskuncertainty

Identifiers

PMID33834596
PMCPMC8196660

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