Greenpeace Campaigner Jai Krishna, explains about the proliferation of untested GM crops.

Anti-GMO activists went around Quezon City, in Metro Manila to educate the Filipinos about the environmental and health hazards of Genetically Modified Organisms in solidarity to the Global Week of Action against GMOs organized by Occupy Monsanto. © Creng Nitafan

RIPE field trials at the IGB BioEnergy Farm

Anti-GMO activists went around Quezon City, in Metro Manila to educate the Filipinos about the environmental and health hazards of Genetically Modified Organisms in solidarity to the Global Week of Action against GMOs organized by Occupy Monsanto. © Creng Nitafan

RIPE field trials at the IGB BioEnergy Farm

RIPE field trials at the IGB BioEnergy Farm

These rice seedlings are part of a transformation pipeline to test photosynthetic improvements that could increase the yields staple food crops.

Credit: Brian Stauffer/University of Illinois

The techniques of modern genetics have made possible the direct manipulation of the genetic makeup of organisms. In agriculture, genetic engineering allows simple genetic traits to be transferred to crop plants from wild relatives, other distantly related plants, or virtually any other organism.

Recombinant DNA technology thus has brought a new precision to the process of crop development, which traditionally selects desired traits through crosses between crops and their wild relatives (a laborious and relatively imprecise method).

Genetic modification can be used in many ways to control a variety of traits of plants, and the consequences of one manipulation may be completely different from another based on the traits modified.

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A farmer carries a bunch of rice stalks for treshing as they maximise the good weather in Sitio Canaan, Barangay Crossing, Magallon, Negros Occidental.

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This potato's the king because it's been without eyes for nearly three months.

Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.

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Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.

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A member of the Organic Farmers Cooperative in Malingin, Bago City processes organic fertilizers for selling and distribution. The 5-year old cooperative currently has 54 members.

© Greenpeace / Gigie Cruz-Sy

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These cassava seedlings are part of a transformation pipeline to test photosynthetic improvements that could increase the yields staple food crops. Image Credit: Haley Ahlers/University of Illinois

Workers at the Guangzhou space-seed centre grow various kinds of plants that are claimed to be derived from seeds that were sent to outer space. The plants are supposedly bigger and more nutritious than their counterparts.

RIPE field trials at the IGB BioEnergy Farm

Aerial view shows the grid pattern of the relaxing photoprotection field trials.

Image Credit: David Drag/University of Illinois

Members of a decontamination unit from environmental activist group Greenpeace remove genetically-engineered Bt talong (eggplant) from an experimental field trial site in Bay town in the province of Laguna, in an effort to contain contaminants, February 17, 2011.

© Veejay Villafranca / Greenpeace

RIPE field trials at the IGB BioEnergy Farm

Anti-GMO activists went around Quezon City, in Metro Manila to educate the Filipinos about the environmental and health hazards of Genetically Modified Organisms in solidarity to the Global Week of Action against GMOs organized by Occupy Monsanto. © Creng Nitafan

Anti-GMO activists went around Quezon City, in Metro Manila to educate the Filipinos about the environmental and health hazards of Genetically Modified Organisms in solidarity to the Global Week of Action against GMOs organized by Occupy Monsanto. © Creng Nitafan

Team members of the RIPE project transplanting seedlings for the 2016 field trials. RIPE is engineering crops that more efficiently turn the sun's energy into food. This project could increase yields by as much as 60% to help smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia feed their communities and provide for their families.

Anti-GMO activists went around Quezon City, in Metro Manila to educate the Filipinos about the environmental and health hazards of Genetically Modified Organisms in solidarity to the Global Week of Action against GMOs organized by Occupy Monsanto. © Creng Nitafan

Soya bean sprouts. Campaign against genetically engineered soya beans

Team members of the RIPE project transplanting seedlings for the 2016 field trials. RIPE is engineering crops that more efficiently turn the sun's energy into food. This project could increase yields by as much as 60% to help smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia feed their communities and provide for their families.

Hanford Mills Museum will be shutting down for the Winter, but they are ending the year with a festival, including civic organizations, with demonstrations of mill work, crafts, and lumberjack skills. One of the organizations is American Chestnut Foundation, which uses genetic engineering to produce a blight resistant Chestnut. They have put one gene from wheat into the American Chestnut genome, producing a tree that is blight resistant. Now, they are crossing it back into the existing chestnut stock. Of course, they have some detractors.

RIPE field trials at the IGB BioEnergy Farm

Workshop participants in Tissue Culture Lab. Beatriz Da Costa and Oron Catts are seated at the laminar flow hood.

Team members of the RIPE project transplanting seedlings for the 2016 field trials. RIPE is engineering crops that more efficiently turn the sun's energy into food. This project could increase yields by as much as 60% to help smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia feed their communities and provide for their families.