How nanocarriers delivering cargos in plants can change the GMO landscape

Markita P Landry; Neena Mitter

doi:10.1038/s41565-019-0463-5

How nanocarriers delivering cargos in plants can change the GMO landscape

Nat Nanotechnol. 2019 Jun;14(6):512-514. doi: 10.1038/s41565-019-0463-5.

Authors

Markita P Landry^{1

2

3}, Neena Mitter⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. landry@berkeley.edu.
² Innovative Genomics Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA. landry@berkeley.edu.
³ Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, CA, USA. landry@berkeley.edu.
⁴ Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. n.mitter@uq.edu.au.

Abstract

Genetically modified organisms as foods are a globally contested topic. What dictates the regulatory oversight of genetically modified crops could be redefined by advances in nanotechnology and genome editing.

MeSH terms

Food, Genetically Modified*
Gene Editing*
Gene Transfer Techniques*
Genome, Plant*
Nanostructures*
Plants, Genetically Modified / genetics*

Grants and funding

R35 GM128922/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States