Live Breaking News & Updates on International Service For The Acquisition Of Agro

2School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
A pervasive opposition to genetically modified (GM) foods has developed from the notion that they pose a risk to human and environmental health. Other techniques for the genetic modification of plants, such as sexual crossing and mutagenesis breeding, have mostly remained unchallenged. This research aims to investigate public perception of plant breeding technologies. Specifically, sexual crossing, mutagenesis, transgenics (GM) and gene editing. It was expected that attitudes and intentions would be most positive and the perception of risk lowest for plant genetic modification through sexual crosses. Scores on these variables were expected to be similar between mutagenesis, GM and gene editing. It was also expected that attitudes, intentions and risk perception would change (becoming more positive) once participants learned about foods developed through these technologies. Participants rep ....

New York , United States , United Kingdom , South Africa , Bruxelles Capitale , City Of , South Korea , Van Breusegem , J Pratley Albury Wodonga , Van Montagu , International Service For The Acquisition Of Agro , Charles Sturt University , Human Research Ethics Committee , Knowledge Of Technology , Research Overview , Stanford University Press , Behavioural Sciences , Friends Of The Earth , European Union , Ethics Committee , Oxford University , Etat Council Of The , Australian Catholic University , European Commission , Fairtrade International , Oxford University Press ,