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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | GM Mustard could open door for 100-odd crops in pipeline -Sanjeeb Mukherjee

GM Mustard could open door for 100-odd crops in pipeline -Sanjeeb Mukherjee

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published Published on May 13, 2017   modified Modified on May 13, 2017
-Business Standard

Activists, others question yield and bio-safety data; GM mustard can improve yields by 25-30%

After many ifs and buts, the commercial release of genetically modified (GM) mustard seems to have reached a decisive phase after the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) recommended on Thursday that it be allowed.
 
The ministry of environment and forests will now decide on whether this herbicide-tolerant variety can become the first GM food crop to be cultivated in India. Or if it is to meet the same fate as its brinjal counterpart, whose release the ministry had stayed in 2010, on grounds of insufficient safety evidence.

 
The decisive factor in this case would be the Supreme Court's observation; it is hearing a case against commercial release of GM mustard. The central government had earlier said any decision on commercial release would depend on the directions of the Supreme Court.
 
If cleared, it would also open the door for entry of 100-odd GM food products, many in first trial stages and yet to reach GEAC. There are GM varieties of rice, wheat, okra, onion, groundnut, bamboo, tomato, apple, cucumber, sugarcane, cabbage, cauliflower, tea, coffee, corn, ginger, ragi, yam, castor, sunflower, black pepper, pea, soybean, papaya, cardamom, carrot, banana, tobacco, orange, pearl millet, potato and pulses.
 
The application for GM mustard had come from the Centre for Genetic Manipulation of Crop Plants (CGMCP) of Delhi University's South Campus. It applied to GEAC for environmental release of GM mustard (Brassica juncea) hybrid DMH-11 and the use of parental events (varuna bn 3.6 and EH2 mod bs 2.99) for the development of a new generation of hybrids. The applicant named is Deepak Pental, professor from the Centre and a former vice-chancellor of the university.

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Business Standard, 13 May, 2017, http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/gm-mustard-could-the-open-door-for-100-odd-crops-in-pipeline-117051201175_1.html


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