Engineered safflower with enhanced omega-6 fatty acid

SOURCE: Arcadia Bioscienceshttp://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2008/02/18/daily48.html?b=1203310800%5E1595841

New rice variety with higher protein and lysine content created by crossing cultivated and wild rice varieties

SOURCE: Mahmoud, A.A., Sukumar, S. and Krishnan, H.B. 2008. Interspecific Rice Hybrid of Oryza sativa × Oryza nivara Reveals a Significant Increase in Seed Protein Content. J. Agric. Food Chem. 56: 476–482

Altering transport gene in carrot results in more bioavailable calcium

SOURCE: Morris, J., Hawthorne, K.M., Hotze, T., Abrams, S.A. and Hirschi, K.D. 2008. Nutritional impact of elevated calcium transport activity in carrots. PNAS 10.1073/pnas.0709005105.

Natural mutation results in cow that produces skimmed milk

SOURCE: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070528/sc_afp/nzealandsciencemilk

SOURCE: Sunilkumar et al. 2006. Engineering cottonseed for use in human nutrition by tissue-specific reduction of toxic gossypol. PNAS 103: 18054-18059.

Significant reduction in toxic gossypol in Significant reduction in toxic gossypol in cotton seeds could provide nutritional cotton seeds could provide nutritional

source for humans and animalssource for humans and animals

SOURCE: Uauy et al. 2006. A NAC gene regulating senescence improves grain protein, zinc, and iron content in wheat. Science 314: 1298-1301.

Gene from wild wheat could improve Gene from wild wheat could improve nutritional value of cultivated wheatnutritional value of cultivated wheat

SOURCE: Diaz de la Garza, R.I., Jesse F. Gregory III, J.F. and Hanson, A.D. 2007. Folate biofortification of tomato fruit. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104: 4218-4222.

Introduction of single bacterial gene increases folate levels in tomato to levels comparable to spinach

SOURCE: Rein, D., Schijlen, E., Kooistra, T., Herbers, K., Verschuren, L., Hall, R., Sonnewald, U., Bovy, A. and Kleemann, R. 2006. Transgenic Flavonoid Tomato Intake Reduces C-Reactive Protein in Human C-Reactive Protein Transgenic Mice More Than Wild-Type Tomato. J. Nutr. 136: 2331-2337.

Flavonoid-enriched GE tomato has lower levels Flavonoid-enriched GE tomato has lower levels of protein associated with high risk of of protein associated with high risk of

cardiovascular diseasecardiovascular disease

SOURCE: Park et al. 2005. Genetic Manipulation for Enhancing Calcium Content in Potato Tuber. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 53: 5598-5603.

Engineered potato containsEngineered potato contains3 times more calcium3 times more calcium

SOURCE: http://www.ifrn.bbsrc.ac.uk/Media/NewsReleases/051207broccoli.html

““Super BroccoliSuper Broccoli”” created by classical genetics contains created by classical genetics contains 3.4x sulforaphane, potential anti-cancer agent3.4x sulforaphane, potential anti-cancer agent

Deregulation of High Lysine Corn for Animal Deregulation of High Lysine Corn for Animal Feed - Reduces Need for Lysine SupplementsFeed - Reduces Need for Lysine Supplements

February 2006February 2006

Deregulation of High Lysine Corn for Animal Deregulation of High Lysine Corn for Animal Feed - Reduces Need for Lysine SupplementsFeed - Reduces Need for Lysine Supplements

February 2006February 2006

SOURCE:February 2006, BIOSPACEhttp://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryID=8883&full=1

SOURCE: Texas A&M University

Golden Rice – enhanced pro-vitaminA

SOURCE: Arcadia Biosciences

Safflower Oil Safflower Oil Enhanced withEnhanced with

Omega-6 Fatty AcidsOmega-6 Fatty Acids

Improving nutritional quality of sorghum for Africa using plant genes

SOURCE: www.supersorghum.org

SOURCE: Wirth, J., Poletti, S., Aeschlimann, B., Yakandawala, N., Drosse, B., Osorio, S., Tohge, T., Fernie, A.R., Günther, D., Gruissem, W. and Sautter, C. 2009. Rice endosperm iron biofortification by targeted and synergistic action of nicotianamine synthase and ferritin. Plant Biotechnology Journal 7: 1–14.

Engineered rice with 6-times more ironEngineered rice with 6-times more ironin polished ricein polished rice

The Contraction of Product Quality Innovation in Agricultural BiotechnologyThe Contraction of Product Quality Innovation in Agricultural Biotechnology

SOURCE: Graff, G.D., Zilberman, D. and Bennett, A.B. 2009. The contraction of agbiotech product quality innovation in agricultural biotechnology.

Nature Biotechnology, in press (August, 2009).

Surveys of actual and expected progress in ten categories of product quality innovations with transgenic plants.

SOURCE: “Comment period opens on biotech potato”, Truth About Trade & Technology, 5/2/13http://www.truthabouttrade.org/2013/05/03/comment-period-opens-on-biotech-potato/

Low acrylamide, low sugar bruising resistance in potato engineered only with potato DNA – under

consideration for deregulation by APHIS

Low acrylamide, low sugar bruising resistance in potato engineered only with potato DNA – under

consideration for deregulation by APHIS

SOURCE: “Golden Rice: Lifesaver?”, New York Times, August 24, 2013.http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/sunday-review/golden-rice-lifesaver.html