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Julian Little - presentation to Fresh Inspirations 2012 Conference
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GM technology and its
Potential for Fresh Produce
Julian Little Bayer CropScience
GM technology and its Potential for Fresh
Produce
1. Can I convince you that we need to produce
more food using less natural resources?
2. Can I convince you that GM is alive and
kicking elsewhere in the world?
3. Can I convince you that fresh produce and
GM is compatible?
4. Can I convince you that GM could happen in
the UK?
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
Food Supply: A worldwide sustainability
challenge
World population
Arable land
per capita
1950 5th January 2012 2050
2,500,000,000 7,015,135,579 9,200,000,000
0.52 ha 0.2387 ha 0.16 ha
Source: United Nations
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
Climate change
“Anyone noticed that last year, this year and next
year was the coldest, hottest, driest, wettest,
sunniest, cloudiest year on record” – Jack Bobo, Senior Advisor
to Hillary Clinton – September 2010
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
Foresight Report – January 2011
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
Foresight Report Conclusions
• Agricultural productivity has to increase
• We have to reduce our inputs of water, fuel
and fertilisers
We have to access all methods of
farming that will help us to achieve
these twin goals
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
GM technology and its Potential for Fresh
Produce
1. Did I convince you that we need to produce
more food using less natural resources?
2. Can I convince you that GM is alive and kicking elsewhere
in the world?
3. Can I convince you that fresh produce and GM is
compatible?
4. Can I convince you that GM could happen in the UK?
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
GM technology and its Potential for Fresh
Produce
1. Did I convince you that we need to produce more food
using less natural resources?
2. Can I convince you that GM is alive and
kicking elsewhere in the world?
3. Can I convince you that fresh produce and GM is
compatible?
4. Can I convince you that GM could happen in the UK?
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
15 years of Commercial Experience
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
Global Planting 2010... 148 million hectares
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
Around the World
www.isaaa.org - 2011
New countries
growing GM
for the first
time in 2010
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
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Soybean
Maize
Cotton
Oilseed Rape
GM Crops - What Crops ?
Source: www.ISAAA.org 2011
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
GM technology and its Potential for Fresh
Produce
1. Did I convince you that we need to produce more food
using less natural resources?
2. Did I convince you that GM is alive and
kicking elsewhere in the world?
3. Can I convince you that fresh produce and GM is
compatible?
4. Can I convince you that GM could happen in the UK?
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
GM technology and its Potential for Fresh
Produce
1. Did I convince you that we need to produce more food
using less natural resources?
2. Did I convince you that GM is alive and kicking elsewhere in
the world?
3. Can I convince you that fresh produce and
GM is compatible?
4. Can I convince you that GM could happen in the UK?
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
But what about Fresh Produce?
The tomato has been a symbol for
genetically modified food for many years.
1980s GM tomato avoided need for artificial
ripening
1994, FlavrSavr tomatoes hit the market in
the US and UK
Late1990s some EU member states block
regulatory approval
2002 GM tomatoes gradually disappear.
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
But what about Fresh Produce?
1970s Rapid spread of ringspot virus in
papaya in Hawaii leads to almost cessation
of the industry
1980s Research into “vaccine” by adding
virus genes into the papaya
1999 First virus-resistant papaya
commercialised
2010 Around 75% of the Hawaiian crop is a
GM variety
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China – already growing a number of GM
crops including fresh produce
GM Crop Commercial Activity
Cotton
Tobacco
Tomato
Sweet Pepper
Papaya
Poplar Trees
Flowers
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
China – GM fresh produce on the
way
GM Crop Field Testing Pre-Production
Trials
Chilli
Potato
Cabbage
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
India – a lot of fresh produce activity
Crop Trait Contained
Field Trials
Field
Trials
Commercial
Activity
Cotton Insect
Resistance
Brinjal
(Eggplant) Insect
Resistance ”Not yet”
Cabbage Insect
Resistance 2011
Cauliflower Insect
Resistance 2011
Mustard Increased Yield
Rice Insect
Resistance
Maize Insect
Resistance
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
Field Trial Applications – in the US
Corn , 394
Soybean , 182
Wheat , 6 Tomato , 18
Alfalfa , 22
Trees (various), 25
Grasses (various), 12 Flowers (various), 17
Arabidopsis, 2
Barley , 3
Cassava , 5 Tobacco , 21
Sweet potato , 1
Sugarbeet , 7
Sugarcane , 5
Onion , 1 Grape , 3 Cowpea , 1Oilseed Rape, 28
Papaya , 1
Peanut , 2
Potato , 20
Rice , 10
Sorghum , 3
Cotton , 51
Includes
• Tomato
• Sweet potato
• Potato
• Papaya
• Onions
• Grapes
2009 Applications
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
EU Field Trial Applications 2010-2011
http://gmoinfo.jrc.ec.europa.eu
Includes
• Apples
• Plums
• Peas
• Potato
• Grapes
Includes
• Nematode
Resistance
• Disease
Resistance
• Heat Stress
• Better
rootstock
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
GM technology and its Potential for Fresh
Produce
1. Did I convince you that we need to produce more food
using less natural resources?
2. Did I convince you that GM is alive and kicking elsewhere in
the world?
3. Did I convince you that fresh produce and
GM is compatible?
4. Can I convince you that GM could happen in the UK?
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
GM technology and its Potential for Fresh
Produce
1. Did I convince you that we need to produce more food
using less natural resources?
2. Did I convince you that GM is alive and kicking elsewhere in
the world?
3. Did I convince you that fresh produce and GM is
compatible?
4. Can I convince you that GM could happen in
the UK?
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
Indian Research – Long Life
Tomatoes
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
JPL – Fresh Produce Consortium – York – 8th June 2010
Daily Mirror – Feb 2010
GM technology and its Potential for Fresh
Produce
1. Did I convince you that we need to produce more food
using less natural resources?
2. Did I convince you that GM is alive and kicking elsewhere in
the world?
3. Did I convince you that fresh produce and GM is
compatible?
4. Did I convince you that GM could happen in
the UK?
JPL – Fresh Inspirations – January 2012
26th January, 2012,
Huntingdon Marriott Hotel