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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 reported
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Monitoring and Evaluation Consultancy in Nigeria about Education, Food and Nutrition and Water Sanitation Hygiene, requiring 5-9 years of experience, from Save the Children; closing on 28 May 2021
Monitoring and Evaluation Consultancy in Nigeria about Food and Nutrition, requiring 5-9 years of experience, from Save the Children; closing on 28 May 2021