Re: [DIYbio] Re: Uptake of food transgenes by guy bacteria

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 5:10 AM, 'SC' via DIYbio
<diybio@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> This
> definition doesn't include gene knockouts, genes inserted from other
> cultivars of the same species, and most significantly organisms created by
> random mutagenesis. In RM, seeds are irradiated with high levels of gamma
> irradiation until amost all are dead. The survivors are mostly stunted and
> wonky, but once in a while you get one that shows increased yield or some
> other good trait. There are thousands of cultivars of many types of crops
> which have been produced this way. Because of the narrow legal definition,
> none of them count as GMOs. It is unlikely anyone born after 1970 has ever
> eaten a non-RM wheat or soy cultivar.


On that note, I posted on this a while ago here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/diybio/T1YlqUv74gU

The most interesting finding I came across was an article with this title:
'Microarray analyses reveal that plant mutagenesis may induce more
transcriptomic changes than transgene insertion'
http://www.pnas.org/content/105/9/3640.full

So the 'GMO' (as in 'normal' insertional GMO that the public
only/mainly knows of) is more like it's ancestors than the
non-commonly-referred-to-as-GMO mutants. And they sell these products
at places like Whole Foods and Trader Joe's (upscale food markets that
target 'natural' products)!

Have a search of the radio mutant database for some common things:
mvgs.iaea.org/Search.aspx

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