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A Survey of Global Adoption of Transgenic Plants: Past, Present, and Future
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Abbas Alemzadeh *   |
| Shiraz University |
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In recent years, genetic engineering and plant genome manipulation have had a key role in improvement of crop breeding through useful genes or endogenous genes silencing. The use of genetically modified organisms such as transgenic plants was dramatically advanced in the world in recent decades. Plants were genetically modified for a wide range of traits like herbicide-tolerant, pest-resistant, biofortified, and stress-tolerant. Recently, global adoption of these plants continuous to increase, caused by advances in new technology and rule regulatory. Since the first commercialization in 1996, the area planted to these plants has increase every year, from 1.5 million hectares in 1996 to around 2010 million hectares in 2024. The data indicate that four main crops, cotton, soybean, maize, and canola, contain the highest rate of GM% utilization in the world, respectively. Transgenic plants were planted by more than 18 million farmers in 28 countries. The article provides details on commercialized GM crops over time.
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| Keywords: Biosafety, Gene transformation, Genetically modified plants, Genetic engineering |
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Type of Study: Review |
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Received: 2025/12/9 | Accepted: 2025/12/17 | Published: 2025/12/17
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