• Nutritional Qualities
The research will in the sense of a development of transgenic plants for a better nutritional performance and avoiding the contribution of nutrient supplements. Thus, it is possible to obtain the plants of maize, rapeseed, soybean to elevated levels of amino acids, particularly methionine and lysine, and but enriched in oil. Still,Work is being undertaken to reduce the allergenic properties of rice and soybeans. We can say therefore that the modification of the genes of some plants entering the power conferred upon them a new capacity.
Golden Rice
Rice is the staple food the most consumed in the world, and particularly in Asia. However, there is a rice cleanse (without shell), consumed by whole populations,Which presents a vitamin A (vitamin A deficiency). This vitamin A is very dangerous, because vitamin A is necessary for the vision, thousands of people find themselves victims of a partial blindness or total, and therefore visual disturbances important and irreversible.That is why research has been conducted on the manufacture of a rice much more rich in vitamin A. The addition by transgenesis of provitamin A in the endosperm of rice cleanse has in effect allowed us to see an unborn rice containing sufficient vitamin A: the "golden rice". Thus, the production of such a O. G. M allows you to prevent significant health disorders ;But the long-term effects of regular consumption of this rice are not yet known. Finally, the concentrations obtained so far do not provide the destitute populations in vitamin A, the quantities which they would be required, in all cases not by this single track. But, the effects of deficiencies more or less pronounced could be significantly alleviated.
rice enriched with iron
According to UNICEF, of the iron deficiency would affect almost 3.7 billion people in the world today, the majority of which is women and children of less than five years in the developing countries. Here also, the GMOS could make a progress. In effect, the work has helped to double the iron content of the rice by introducing the gene for the ferritin.
Plants rich in fatty acids specific
research is currently underway on the reduction of the content in fatty acid mono-unsaturated fats (animal fat) contained in the oils in order to limit the cardiovascular risks. It is to introduce genes for desaturases in oilseed plants such as rapeseed and soybeans to increase the proportions of saturated fatty acids.These fatty acids are the "good fats" indispensable to our body.
"maturation of the fruit
The development of molecular biology has allowed us to consider the maturation as an event genetically program involving the regulation of the expression of specific genes.Considerable progress has been achieved in the understanding of the mechanisms of the maturation of the fruit to give results more advances relating to food quality (Gray et al. , 1994 ; Leliã¨vre et al. , 1997).
Grace to biotechnology it has managed to master the whole process of maturation of these fruits by genetic manipulation of the expression of the corresponding genes.
Melon
The melon genetically modified is obtained by a research laboratory french, by introducing a gene antisense coding for the ACC oxidase, capable of blocking the synthesis of ethylene, which slows the maturation, for a better maintenance of the quality and avoid a murissement premature.The secondment of the fruit is delayed and the melon maintained on foot continued to accumulate sugars.
a considerable reduction of the ethylene production as well on foot only after harvest results in :
- inhibition of the maturation therefore an absence of yellowing and degradation of chlorophylls from the bark,
- a softening very reduced,
- Absence of the formation of the zone of abscission stemless to remain attached to the plant,
- a reduced production of flavorings,
- the color of the flesh, the acidity and sugar content are not affected.
5. Conclusions
genetic engineering opens perspectives particularly interesting for the understanding of the living and the improvement of plants,On condition that the mentoring and containment conditions are sufficient.
but this technology remains an applied science recent, whose theoretical principles and the technological tools are not today perfectly controlled. That is why transgenic plants must be assessed in the light of their impacts, positive or negative, to the levels of the environment,Agricultural practices and food security (following table). The risk assessment of transgenic plants must be made on a case by case basis, taking into account of the transgene, the host agency, the frequency and magnitude of the introduction.
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