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Introduction: Genes and Agriculture
Introduction: Genes and Agriculture
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Those nematode-resistant crops will be just one member of a coming generation of "supercrops" and "superlivestock," genetically engineered plants and animals that promise to transform agriculture as profoundly as anything since our distant ancestors learned to save seeds from one year to plant the next. With their toolkits of genetic engineering techniques, agricultural researchers can modify organisms to improve quality and convenience, lower the cost of production, and add a variety of useful traits.
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Now members of the agricultural research community believe it is time to start a broader project: an agricultural genome program. Building from the base provided by the Arabidopsis effort and using expertise and technology developed in other ventures, such as the Human Genome Project, it should be possible to generate a huge and hugely valuable amount of information on the genetics of agricultural species in a relatively short time.
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" Or, as Dale Bauman, chair of NRC's Board on Agriculture, put it: "What are the lessons we have learned to date, and how can we use them? " In particular, the participants in the workshop were asked to assume that an agricultural genome project will be established and to discuss what features such a project should have in light of experience with the Human Genome Project and other genetic research over the past decade or so.
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