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Download PDF Could the UK’s “extraordinary” plant-science sector be limbering up for an integral role in the genetics revolution that will deliver the farming of the future to communities the world over? CPM explores the opportunities. We see an opportunity for a step change in the way we do plant science. By Tom Allen-Stevens As the Government faced criticism for appearing to slam shut one door on the path to prosperity for UK Agriculture, it may just have opened another. At Cereals LIVE last month, farming minister Victoria Prentis explained why Government ruled out measures in the Agriculture Bill to prevent farming standards being undermined through imports. But she struck a different note on gene-editing, highlighting that Defra doesn’t agree with EU laws that treat the new plant-breeding technology (NPBT) as genetic modification. “We’ve pushed for many years for the EU to come to the place we’re in,” she said. “We’re committed to taking a more scientific approach and we recognise the potential for gene-editing to really change our agriculture in the future. We’d like the UK to be a leading player in this space. Whether or not we end up with an amendment to the Agriculture Bill, this is…
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