title: Promise and issues of genetically modified crops.
abstract: The growing area of genetically modified (GM) crops has substantially expanded since they were first commercialized in 1996. Correspondingly, the adoption of GM crops has brought huge economic and environmental benefits. All these achievements have been primarily supported by two simple traits of herbicide tolerance and insect resistance in the past 17 years. However, this situation will change soon. Recently, the advance of new products, technologies and safety assessment approaches has provided new opportunities for development of GM crops. In this review, we focus on the developmental trend in various aspects of GM crops including new products, technical innovation and risk assessment approaches, as well as potential challenges that GM crops are currently encountering.
authors.affiliation: National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Centre of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China. Hchen@mail.hzau.edu.cn
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Yongjun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D001709:Biotechnology; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000235:genetics*; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D030821:Plants, Genetically Modified; D019655:Quantitative Trait, Heritable; D018570:Risk Assessment