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Faure, J-D. and Napier, J. A. 2018. Europe’s first and last field trial of gene-edited plants? eLife. 7 (e42379). https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.42379
Authors | Faure, J-D. and Napier, J. A. |
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Abstract | On 5 June this year the first field trial of a CRISPR-Cas-9 gene-edited crop began at Rothamsted Research in the UK, having been approved by the UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs. However, in late July 2018, after the trial had started, the European Court of Justice ruled that techniques such as gene editing fall within the European Union’s 2001 GMO directive, meaning that our gene-edited Camelina plants should be considered as genetically modified (GM). Here we describe our experience of running this trial and the legal transformation of our plants. We also consider the future of European plant research using gene-editing techniques, which now fall under the burden of GM regulation, and how this will likely impede translation of publicly funded basic research |
Year of Publication | 2018 |
Journal | eLife |
Journal citation | 7 (e42379) |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.42379 |
Open access | Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access |
Funder | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council |
Funder project or code | Tailoring Plant Metabolism (TPM) - Work package 1 (WP1) - High value lipids for health and industry |
Publisher's version | |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 18 Dec 2018 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 05 Dec 2018 |
Publisher | Elife Sciences Publications Ltd |
Copyright license | CC BY |
ISSN | 2050-084X |
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