HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY
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increased crop yield
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lower genetic diversity in crop species
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increased risk to crops from environmental stresses
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improved taste, texture, appearance, and nutritional qualities of food
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Detailed explanation-1: -If advantageous genes are introduced into GMOs, it may allow them to become more fit than their wild relatives. This situation would be detrimental because the GMOs would grow faster and reproduce more often, allowing them to take resources away from non-GMO relatives if they inhabit the same environment.
Detailed explanation-2: -These include enhanced pathogenicity, emergence of a new disease, pest or weed, increased disease burden if the recipient organism is a pathogenic microorganism or virus, increased weed or pest burden if the recipient organism is a plant or invertebrate, and adverse effects on species, communities, or ecosystems.
Detailed explanation-3: -Production of New Toxins In some cases, plants contain inactive pathways leading to toxic substances. Addition of new genetic material through genetic engineering could reactivate these inactive pathways or otherwise increase the levels of toxic substances within the plants.