Recombinant DNA technology, also known as genetic engineering, allows the transfer of genes between unrelated species. As a result, a genetically modified organism (GMO) may contain one or more proteins coming from other organism/s. The application of genetic engineering to plants improvement and food production is becoming a common practice. New and diverse plant varieties have been obtained which are pest an...
Dissertação de Mestrado apresentada à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Mestre em em Psicologia, especialização em Psicologia da Educação e Intervenção Comunitária. ; As dificuldades de aprendizagem específicas (DAE) estão relacionadas com alterações que se produzem tanto nas estruturas como nos processos centrais da aprendizagem. São reconhecidas como sendo défice...
The rice semidwarfing gene, sd1, also known as the “green revolution gene”, has been studied intensively due to its contribution to the increase of crop production. Although sd1 breeding was extensively applied since the 1960s, the recent advances in the molecular basis of this gene allowed designing a more precise breeding strategy - marker assisted backcrossing (MAB) - to track sd1 introgression in two tradit...
Controversy regarding genetically modified (GM) plants and their potential impact on human health contrasts with the tacit acceptance of other plants that were also modified, but not considered as GM products (e.g., varieties raised through conventional breeding such as mutagenesis). What is beyond the phenotype of these improved plants? Should mutagenized plants be treated differently from transgenics? We have...
Background: The safety issues regarding foods derived from genetically modified (GM) plants are central to their acceptance into the food supply. The potential allergenicity of proteins newly introduced in GM foods is a major safety concern. Objective: We sought to monitor, in potentially sensitive human populations, the allergenicity effects of 5 GM materials obtained from sources with no allergenic potential ...
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