There are many different ways to modify a genome. Traditional breeding, marker assisted selection, chemical mutagenesis, cell fusion, rDNA technology, gene editing... if I needed a term for all of those together, breeding techniques seems a decent one.
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It’s hard to believe that anyone would make the argument that there is no real difference between classical plant breeding and the myriad of techniques used today to genetically engineer plants. It’s sophistry, and thus propaganda, whether deliberate or not.
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what falls in "classical plant breeding" and what does not? where do we draw the line?
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I think reasonable people would draw the line at classical plant breeding, as I have said. Anything else is not that.
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"Reasonable" people have drawn the lines all over the place. Mutagenesis is generally included with "classical", weirdly enough. What is a GMO? Depends on who you ask.https://www.biofortified.org/2015/11/regulate-define-gmo/ …
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Thanks for making my point for me.
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Um, you're welcome? I'm not sure what your point was, though, unless it was to say that there aren't solid definitions for any of these groupings of methods for inducing genome change, which I agree with. But I don't think any of these terms are "propaganda".
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Michael, do you want the plants to have sex in order to be included in "classical," or is mutagenesis also a breeding technique?
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Replying to @ksenapathy @geneticmaize and
Look some of us just think what plants do behind closed lab doors is nobody's business but the plants.
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Replying to @pxwhittle @geneticmaize and
Unless they're proud of their sex tapes, in which case who are we to judge?
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