Anti-Biotech Groups Obstructing Forest Biotechnology Say Bio-Scientists
Researchers at Oregon State University are doing numerous experiments with genetically modified poplar trees, designed to reduce the risks from gene movement in the environment, but further studies are on hold due to the high costs and obstacles posed by regulations.
The potential of forest biotechnology to help address significant social and environmental issues is being “strangled at birth” by the rigid opposition of some groups and regulations that effectively preclude even the testing of genetically modified trees, scientists argue in a new report.
Steps must be taken to create a regulatory environment that considers genetically modified trees on a scientific, case-by-case basis, and is focused on the end product rather than the process, say researchers from Oregon State University, Carnegie Mellon University and other institutions in an article in the journal Nature Biotechnology. (more…)
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