IDST 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Soybean, Canola, Genetic Engineering

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Of the technologies do not mean sustainable yields. These do not create increases in agricultural yields overime. Over 40 yields in major food crops around the world. (rate of growth of yields goes down). Need for more food in a slow down in agricultural producivity, lead by the green. This led to the increasing adopion of gmos around the world. A geneically modiied organism (gmo) is an organism whose geneic material has been altered using geneic engineering techniques. Diferent from transgenic: dna from one species into another species. For the most part it is more useful to use accurate descripion. Two main plant traits are most commonly geneically modiied: * herbicide tolerance: allows farmers to spray plants, lower qualiies without crop that is cross. Round up ready geneically engineered to react to a type of herbicides. * insect resistance: resistance within the plant reducing the amount of pesicides used. Gmo caused yields to go down and not up.

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