Studies - Authors, Years, Facts Flashcards
% children with muscle wasting in relation to availability of cultivated land per household
Author and year
Nabarro (1981)
Essay on increase in population versus increase in food supply
Author and year
Malthus (1798)
Effect of technology on productivity
Author
USDA
Global status of commercialised biotech / GM crops in 2017
Author and year
ISAAA (2017)
Countries with the most GM
Author and year
Clive James (2016)
Palmer ameranth
Author and year
Ward et al (2013)
Palmer ameranth Yield losses (cotton, soybean, maize, sorghum)
Cotton - 59%
Soybean - 79%
Maize - 91%
Sorghum - 63%
Roundup ready soybean safety assessment report
Author and year
ACNFP (1994)
Data on pesticide reduction in GM crops
Author and year
Barfoot and Brooks (2008)
Glyphosate resistant palmer amaranth
Author and year
Ward et al (2013)
Amaranthus resistance
Journal and year
PNAS (2010)
GM stats
Authors and years
Brookes and Barfoot (2016)
James (2015)
GM stats How many countries grown in? How many growers? How many Ha of land? Worth how much?
28 countries
18 million growers
180 million Ha
$18 billion
GM stats
4 crops that makes up most GM production and % of each
Soybean - 50%
Maize - 31%
Cotton - 13%
Canola - 4%
GM stats
Total GM that is herbicide tolerant
65%
GM stats
Total GM that is insect resistant
35%
Current GM control
Number of cases of pesticide accidental poisoning per year
26 million
Current GM control
% food production lost to weeds, pests and disease
% before harvest
% after
60%
Before - 40%
After - 20%
Current GM control
Reduction of pesticides with insect resistance
42%
Bt toxin mode of action
Author and year
Pardo-Lopez et al (2013)
Bt toxin and areawide suppression
Author and year
Hutchinson et al (2010)
Bt stats
Author and year
Brookes and Barfoot (2016)
Bt stats % Bt crops in US in 2014 Adoption rate in India % yield increase in Burkina Faso % pesticide reduction worldwide
US - 84%
India - 95%
Burkina Faso - 20%
Reduction - 20%
Paper on GNA and rats
Pusztai (1998)
Tobacco fungus resistance from rice chitinase and alfalfa B-1,3 glucanase
Author and year
Zhu et al (1994)
Potato blight study
Author and year
Song et al (2003)
Potato blight tomato study
Author and year
Jones et al (2014)
Potato blight tomato study
Tuber yield in GM vs non-GM
GM - 6-13 kg
Non - 2-5 kg
Fall armyworm GM resistance
Author and year
Monnerat et al (2015)
Fall armyworm GM resistance
Bt gene
Cry1Fa
Transgenic pollen harms Monarch larvae
Author and year
Losey et al (1999)
Grafting and GM - root stock and sion
Author and year
Shaharuddin et al (2006)
Grafting and GM - root stock and sion - Arabidopsis
Author and year
Liang et al (2012)
Viruses as vectors
Author and year
Rybicki (2014)
How RNA interference works
Author and year
Jiang (2013)
HIGS to target pests and pathogens
Author and year
Koch et al (2013)
RNAi rushing into technology without understanding
Author and year
Bailey (2014)
CRISPR - wheat mildew resistance
Author and year
Wang et al (2014)
CRISPR - wheat mildew resistance
Susceptibility locus
MLO
Monsanto GM potato variety
Author and year
Solomon-Blackburn and Barker (2001)
Potato reduction of SGAs
Author and year
Sawai et al (2014)
Tomato antisense polygalacturonase
Author and year
Nottingham Uni and Zeneca Smith et al (1988)
Looking at other things to understand tomato ripening
Author and year
Giovannoni (2007)
Golden rice
Author and year
Beyer et al (2002)
Golden rice
Genes
Phytoene synthase
Carotene desaturase
Lycopene cyclase
Purple tomatoes
Author and year
Butelli et al (2008)
Purple tomatoes
Transcription factors and promoter
Del
Ros1
P - E8
Altered fatty acids in oil crops
Journal and year
Nature Biotechnology (1999)
Altered fatty acids in oil crops
Fatty acid and what used to get it
Stearate
Antisense of delta9 desaturase
Tearless onion
Author and year
Eady et al (2008)
Miraculin
Author and year
Hyenon-Jin Sun (2007)
Plantibodies - IgG
Journal and year
Nature (1989)
Real applications of plantibodies
Journal and year
Science (1995)
Altering flower colour
Journal and year
Molecular Breeding (2000)
Altering flower colour
Enzymes co-supressed to get blue
Chalcone synthase
Dihydroflavanol 4-reductase
Altering flower colour
Enzymes co-supressed to get pink
Flavanoid 3,5-hydroxylase
Paper about steps to getting approval to start GM
Author and year
Gomez-Galera et al (2012)
Criticisms of current EU rules
Author / title and date
Science and Committee of MPs Criticism of Current EU Rules
February 2015
Criticisms of current EU rules
Criticisms
Assume GM crops are inherently more risky than non-GM
Do not balance risks against potential benefits to the producer, the consumer and the environment
Prevent EU states from making their won decisions
Higher yield farming helps nature?
Author and year
Phalan et al (2016)
RNA-based biocontrols
Author and year
San Miguel and Scott (2016)
Proposed regulatory framework set out by scientists
Author and year
Huang et al (2016)
“Exogenous plant MIR168a specifically targets mammalian LDLRAP1: evidence of cross-kingdom regulation by microRNA”
Author and year
Zhang et al (2012)
CP-MR - first reports
Author and year
Powell-Abel et al (1986)
Main scientific paper about risks of 35S promoter
Author and year
Mae Wan Ho et al (1999)
Sweet potato synergism
Author
Nick Fenby and NRI
Sweet potato synergism
Viruses
SPFMV
SPCSV
AMCV antibody study
Author and year
Tavladoraki et al (1993)
AMCV antibody study
Antibody
F8
