2015 missed opportunities
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What opportunities are there with Ag Biotech that remain unrealized? Important crops have been engineered, by public and government labs, so solve problems for the environment, the farmer, the needy and the consumer. These remain unused due to high regulatory barriers and small farm industry fear of public backlash.
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2015 missed opportunities
- 1. Missed Opportunities Kevin M. Folta Professor and Chair Horticultural Sciences Department kfolta.blogspot.com @kevinfolta kfolta@ufl.edu
- 3. Advantages and Limitations The technologies have allowed scientists to grow the same amount (or more) food with fewer or safer inputs. Farmers have adopted the products faster than any other technologies. The products have been safely used for 18 years with no health effects. Implementation has been largely restricted to plants that can grow through herbicides and insect resistant varieties. Resistant weeds and insects threaten the long-term sustainable use of these technologies.
- 4. Where do we all agree? FarmersDeveloping World The NeedyFood Safety Environment Consumers
- 5. Golden Rice X Farmers Consumers Environment Needy Opposition to golden rice cost $2 billion to farmers in developing countries and 1.4 million human years – Wesseler et al., 2014
- 6. Cassava Virus Resistant Cassava (VIRCA) Biocassava Plus (BC Plus) 250 million depend on cassava 50 million tons lost to virus. X X Farmers Consumers Environment Needy
- 7. Golden Bananas Beta carotene producing X Farmers Consumers Environment Needy
- 8. Survives moderate drought, especially at key times like flowering It is based on overexpression of a maize stress gene Non transgenic transgenic X X Farmers Consumers Environment Needy
- 9. Allergy-Free Peanuts Peanut – RNAi suppression Ara h2 X Farmers Consumers Environment Needy
- 10. Allergy Free Wheat Using RNAi to repress gliadin levels
- 11. BS2 Tomato A pepper gene in tomato eases black spot and wilt. X X Farmers Consumers Environment Needy
- 12. High Anthocyanin Tomato A transcription factor excites anthocyanin production in fruits X X Farmers Consumers Environment Needy X Longer shelf life too.
- 13. Acrylamide Free, non Browning Potatoes X X Farmers Consumers Environment Needy
- 14. Non Browning Apples Silencing a gene that leads to discoloration X X Farmers Consumers Environment Needy Small Business!X
- 15. Grapes resistant to Pierce’s Disease X X Farmers Consumers Environment Needy X
- 18. One acre of omega-3 producing soybeans yields as much oil as 10,000 fish!
- 19. Stopping Citrus Greening Spinach defensin NPR1 Lytic peptides Many show promise Earliest deregulation is 2019
- 20. Edible Cotton Seeds! Gossypol- free Defense compound to protect seeds Protein rich seeds could feed 500 M people Transgenic cotton with suppressed gossypol synthesis
- 21. Edible Cotton Seeds! Chestnut blight has destroyed the American Chestnut. A single gene confers resistance to the disease. Not food… so deregulation is an interesting question.
- 22. Bacterial Wilt in Bananas >70% of calories for some areas GM trials in Uganda X X Farmers Consumers Environment Needy X
- 24. Stopping Citrus Greening Devastating disease in Florida, working westward Transgenic solutions work Breeding is too slow, few sources of natural resistance.
- 25. In Conclusion There many good solutions that exist today that can help: The environment The needy The farmer The consumer We need to think about, and push for, the best solutions to our agricultural challenges, and consider all technologies along with careful assessment of risk and benefit.