Obstacles to successful commercialisation of public investments in the development of GM crops
Year: 2017
Type: dissertation
Abstract: As the world's population continues to rise and with many developing countries unable to meet the nutritional requirement of their citizens, tremendous pressure has been placed on improving the global agricultural system for future food security.Genetic modification (GM) is a key agricultural biotechnological tool that allows the direct manipulation of plant genomes, introducing novel traits that are difficult or impossible to achieve through conventional plant breeding programmes.However, the great majority of commercialised GM crops are products from multinational corporations and these cover almost all the GM crop planted area globally.Developments originating from public organisations are rarely seen in the commercial market despite substantial public investment.Little research has xiv transformation 6.11Major patents that have broad coverage on the use of promoters for driving expression of transgenes 169 6.12 Major patents that have broad coverage on the use of antibiotic resistance markers for selecting transgenic plants 170 6.13 Patents that provide broad coverage on methods of removing selectable markers from plants 172 8.1 Bt cotton events approved for commercialisation in India 205 8.2 Responsibility of public and private sectors for GM cabbage and cauliflower development 217 8.3 Public sector donors for CIMBAA 221 8.4 Technologies required for the genetic modification of the CIMBAA plant material 222 8.5 Comparison of the PPP CIMBAA brassicas and public sector cotton project case studies 226 8.6 Comparison of CIMBAA and ICAR's Bt cotton against ETS criteria 230 9.1 Summary of the innovation barriers for public GM crops based on Hall and Martin's Innovation Evaluation Framework 241 Boxes 1.1 Summary of two commonly used input traits 4 2.1 A summary of plant variety protection (PVP) systems in Australia, China and India 30
Author: Jing-wen Chiu
Language: English
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2727680353