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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Allow production of pharmaceuticals and products beyond traditional food and fiber?

Failed to understand " The third generation of GE crops would include traits to allow production of pharmaceuticals and products beyond traditional food and fiber":

It seems to meaning many aspects:
1) the third generation of GE crops can produce medicines/pharmatheuticals;
2) such GE crops can produce food and fiber (?) which are far better than traditional food and fiber;
3) ?

Context:

Genetically engineered crop traits have been classiied into one of three generations (Fernandez-Cornejo, 2004). The irst generation features enhanced input traits such as herbicide tolerance, resistance to insects, and resistance to environmental stress (like drought). The second features
value-added output traits such as nutrient-enhanced seeds for feed. The third generation of GE crops would include traits to allow production of pharmaceuticals and products beyond traditional food and fiber. While the irst GE crop approved by USDA!¯s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and commercialized in 1994 was a crop with a strictly second-generation trait (FlavrSavr tomato), most GE crops planted in the United States have irst-generation traits. All three generations of GE
3crop traits are in various stages of research and development.
  

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NL888 " The third generation of GE crops would include traits to allow production of pharmaceuticals and products beyond traditional food and fiber":It seems to meaning many aspects: 1) the third generation of GE crops can produce medicines/pharmaceuticals also ; I read it only that way.

  • NL888 " The third generation of GE crops would include traits to allow production of pharmaceuticals and products beyond traditional food and fiber":It seems to meaning many aspects: 1) the third generation of GE crops can produce medicines/pharmaceuticals also ; I read it only that way.
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NL888" The third generation of GE crops would include traits to allow production of pharmaceuticals and products beyond traditional food and fiber":It seems to meaning many aspects:1) the third generation of GE crops can produce medicines/pharmaceuticals also;
I read it only that way.
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Thanks.
What is fiber? A slender and greatly elongated solid substance?
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NL888What is fiber?
Linen, cotton, wool, silk

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