Genetic moderation

摘要

With food security firmly on the international agenda, there's a growing appetite to look again at the opportunities promised by agricultural biotechnology. Scientists working in this area are excited by new techniques that enable them to edit plant DNA with unprecedented accuracy. Even epigenetic markers, which modulate the activity of genes, can now be altered. The promise is to modify crops to make them more nutritious or resistant to disease. But there's a problem, notably in Europe: genetic modification.