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Cisgenic Crops: Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Environment

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Cisgenic Crops: Safety, Legal and Social Issues

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Integrity of biodiversity, ecosystems, and the environment is essential to guarantee the provision of ecosystem services, which is key for food security and the well-being of all forms of life. The possibility of deliberately manipulating organisms’ genomes for the benefit of human beings has raised several concerns. Biodiversity loss, disturbance of ecosystems, and genetic makeup of wild populations, as well as negative impacts on non-target organisms, are some of them. Cisgenesis was proposed as an alternative of genetic modification that respects species barriers; therefore, it is expected that it could overcome some limitations of both traditional and novel plant breeding techniques, as well as some challenges that modern agriculture faces. Given the importance to safeguard biodiversity, ecosystems, and environment while new developments are made, the possible positive and negative impacts of cisgenics on these three components are discussed here. Impacts equivalent to those that occur naturally or because of traditional breeding of crop plants are also analyzed. This chapter shows that cisgenics constitute a promising alternative that deserves further consideration and adoption, and that it is important that these developments are accompanied by sustainable agricultural practices.

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    Defined as a plant species that is more or less closely related to a crop plant, but unlike it, it has not been domesticated. This also includes the progenitors or direct ancestors of crop plants (Heywood et al. 2007).

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Neira-Monsalve, E., Serrato, M.L., Ospina, C.A. (2023). Cisgenic Crops: Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Environment. In: Chaurasia, A., Kole, C. (eds) Cisgenic Crops: Safety, Legal and Social Issues. Concepts and Strategies in Plant Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10721-4_1

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