1. PLANTS - OUR FUTURE…?

2. transpire water to clouds and
Plants relate to everything around
Take in CO2, give out O2,
transpire water to clouds and
promote rainfall

4. FUTURE PRIORITIES
Production of safe, high-quality, diverse food and feed in sufficient
quantities
Sustainable agriculture
Development of plants for the production of renewable resources
and energy
Increasing competitiveness while maintaining the freedom
of choice of consumers
Scientific and technological progress in biotechnologies for
genetically modified (GM) foods is the most promising tool for
addressing these new priorities.

5. Scientists are taking genes from one species
and inserting them into entirely different
species, to transplant a desired personality trait

6. What foods can you create by genetic modification?
Potatoes
Bananas
An endangered species?
Golden rice
Tomatoes
Soybeans
For the most part, foods in European supermarkets are not genetically modified.
 Genetically modified fruits and vegetables are still quite a long way from commercial use in the EU .
Food which is a genetically modified organism (GMO) or which consists of GMOs must be labelled.
Wheat, Rye, and Barley - Cereal production around the world is free of genetically modified plants. This means that all flour used to make bread is "GM-free". .  
Wheat
Foods in European supermarkets are not genetically modified.
 GM fruits and vegetables are still quite a long way from commercial use in the EU.
Maize

7. The adoption of Transgenics, 1996-2006

8. GM food - the big debate Advantages: Disadvantages:
The agricultural process is kinder to the environment, by using less pesticides, fertilizers and water.
Gene technology is one of the best solutions to the problem of world hunger. It can increase production and lower the cost of food.
Gene modification can boost immunity and develop inbuilt vaccines for livestock and poultry.
Gene technology can remove lactose, so that lactose-intolerant people can eat dairy products.
Crops could be grown in areas suffering from drought and salt.
GM crops are faster and cheaper.
Many vegetarians may fid they are now able to consume products which have synthetic, rather than animal-based, origins.
G M Foods are sometimes thought as being more nutritious, tasting better and they keep longer.
Many people rely on genetically modified foods for medicines, for example insulin for diabetics.
Proven by research, GM Foods are safe. .
Disadvantages:
Most food manafacturers are unable to provide information on whether or not their products contain GM ingredients. This means you rarely know what you are eating.
GM crops can contaminate other crops simply by pollen being blown by wind from one field to another.
Sometimes GM crops have allergenic effects.
Loss of nutritional value.
Reduction of the efficiency of antibiotics.
New viruses could evolve from the mass production of GM crops.
Pests may develop resistance to GM crops that have been designed to kill them.
Humans do not have the right to genetically alter nature for their own convienience and profit.
Vegetarians and Vegans may find it offensive to put animal genes into plants.
Some countries will not be able to afford GM foods.
GM crops may produce ecological side effects (Monarch butterfiles).
Too much money spent on Gene Technology could have been spent on other things.

9. EUROPEAN de facto MORATATORIUM
In June 2003, the EUROPEAN Parliament
ratified a biosafety protocol regulating
international trade in genetically
modified food.
It requires that all food/feed containing
or derived from GMO be labeled
and any GM ingredients in food be traced.
At least 174 regions, over 4500 municipalities
and other local entities and tens of thousands
of farmers and food producers in Europe
have declared themselves "GMO-free"
expressing their commitment not to allow
the use of genetically modified organisms
in the agriculture and food in their territories

10. DEVELOP OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED PLANTS
FOR TOXIC CLEAN -UP
Scientists have to develop fast growing grasses, trees
that control the uptake and binding of toxic elements and
to examine individual genes and mechanisms that
might drive phytoremediation.
To following plant characteristics
have to be used in plant engineering for
Phytoremediation:
activity in rhizosphere;
element uptake;
transformation to most mobile species;
translocation through vascular system;
transformation to best managed
element species;
chemical sinks for toxic element
accumulation;
physical sites for storage
(cytosol, vacuole).

11. Remediation plant. Genetically modified poplar trees,
which can take up chlorinated solvents, are developed
to remediate polluted sites.

12. Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)
The protein is encoded by a single gene and can be cloned and incorporated in cells of other species.
It possesses natural fluorescence allowing direct visualization of the transformed cells.
Aequorea victoria

13. Thank you !