Crop plants whose DNA has been altered by genetic engineering rather than by crossing alone. The first commercially grown GM food crop was the Flavr Savr tomato of 1994, and adoption since has been fast and uneven: from 1.7 million hectares in 1996 to 185.1 million in 2016, about 12 percent of global cropland, concentrated in a handful of crops and countries. The technology's safety record and its corporate control are argued in different registers, and the argument itself is part of the subject.
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Origin YearDated from the Flavr Savr tomato, the first commercially grown GM food crop; the first genetically engineered crop plant, a tobacco, was reported in 1983. Classification
Concept ClassGenetic Resources and Crop Diversity 1 Connections
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Genetic engineering beside crossing as a route to new varieties
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GM crops are plants used in agriculture, the DNA of which has been modified using genetic engineering methods.
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Crop plants whose DNA has been altered by genetic engineering rather than by crossing alone.
In Discipline: Plant Breeding, Lead paragraph
Genetically modified crops (GM crops) are plants used in agriculture, the DNA of which has been modified using genetic engineering methods.
Developed By: Marc Van Montagu, History
In 1987 Plant Genetic Systems, founded by Marc Van Montagu and Jeff Schell, was the first company to genetically engineer insect-resistant plants by incorporating genes that produced insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) into tobacco.
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