USDA’s revised biotechnology regulation’s contribution to increasing agricultural sustainability and responding to climate change
Biotechnology can provide a valuable tool to meet UN Sustainable Development Goals and U.S. initiatives to find climate solutions and improve agricultural sustainability. The literature contains hundreds of examples of crops that may serve this purpose, yet most remain un-launched due to high regula...
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| description | Biotechnology can provide a valuable tool to meet UN Sustainable Development Goals and U.S. initiatives to find climate solutions and improve agricultural sustainability. The literature contains hundreds of examples of crops that may serve this purpose, yet most remain un-launched due to high regulatory barriers. Recently the USDA revised its biotechnology regulations to make them more risk-proportionate, science-based, and streamlined. Here, we review some of the promising leads that may enable agriculture to contribute to UN sustainability goals. We further describe and discuss how the revised biotechnology regulation would hypothetically apply to these cases. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5118849b8ea84de6876b461fe898c7662022-12-22T03:43:45ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Plant Science1664-462X2022-11-011310.3389/fpls.2022.10555291055529USDA’s revised biotechnology regulation’s contribution to increasing agricultural sustainability and responding to climate changeNeil E. HoffmanBiotechnology can provide a valuable tool to meet UN Sustainable Development Goals and U.S. initiatives to find climate solutions and improve agricultural sustainability. The literature contains hundreds of examples of crops that may serve this purpose, yet most remain un-launched due to high regulatory barriers. Recently the USDA revised its biotechnology regulations to make them more risk-proportionate, science-based, and streamlined. Here, we review some of the promising leads that may enable agriculture to contribute to UN sustainability goals. We further describe and discuss how the revised biotechnology regulation would hypothetically apply to these cases.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2022.1055529/fullgenome editingregulatory policygenetic engineeringplant biotechnologyenvironmental protection |
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| title | USDA’s revised biotechnology regulation’s contribution to increasing agricultural sustainability and responding to climate change |
| title_full | USDA’s revised biotechnology regulation’s contribution to increasing agricultural sustainability and responding to climate change |
| title_fullStr | USDA’s revised biotechnology regulation’s contribution to increasing agricultural sustainability and responding to climate change |
| title_full_unstemmed | USDA’s revised biotechnology regulation’s contribution to increasing agricultural sustainability and responding to climate change |
| title_short | USDA’s revised biotechnology regulation’s contribution to increasing agricultural sustainability and responding to climate change |
| title_sort | usda s revised biotechnology regulation s contribution to increasing agricultural sustainability and responding to climate change |
| topic | genome editing regulatory policy genetic engineering plant biotechnology environmental protection |
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