The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) said plant breeders should use technology that makes use of gene transformation to fast-track development of crops like the Golden Rice, which has superior traits.
In a statement, SEARCA said that meeting the market’s needs for crops like Golden Rice should be the focus of genomics, an interdisciplinary field that revolutionized research in many fields and systems biology that started in human genome’s mapping in 1986.
Golden Rice, a genetically modified (GM) rice variety, is just awaiting the government’s go-signal to be released to the market.
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