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- Title
Genetically engineered bananas—From laboratory to deployment.
- Authors
Pua, Teen‐Lee; Tan, Tian‐Tian; Jalaluddin, Nurzatil S. M.; Othman, Rofina Y.; Harikrishna, Jennifer A.
- Abstract
Since the first two successful transformation events in banana were reported in 1995, considerable effort has been invested to develop new cultivars with improved tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses and with enhanced nutrient levels, primarily using Agrobacterium‐mediated transformation and particle bombardment. In addition to many promising laboratory‐based studies, several genetically engineered banana cultivars have been trialled in the field. However, the deployment of genetically engineered varieties of bananas lags behind that of other major crops and there has been no commercial plantation. This article provides a review of advances in the genetic engineering of banana with an overview of noteworthy developments in several programmes that are being conducted worldwide. We identify the main challenges to translating the full potential of genetically engineered bananas for human consumption as the intellectual property issues surrounding the technology, public perceptions towards the adoption of the transformed bananas as well as various regulatory hurdles that hold the technology development from moving forward.
- Subjects
BANANAS; COLLISIONS (Nuclear physics); GENETIC engineering; PUBLIC opinion; ABIOTIC stress; INTELLECTUAL property
- Publication
Annals of Applied Biology, 2019, Vol 175, Issue 3, p282
- ISSN
0003-4746
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/aab.12538