{"id":77805,"date":"2018-04-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/crispr-plants-wont-be-regulated"},"modified":"2018-04-14T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T13:00:00","slug":"crispr-plants-wont-be-regulated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/crispr-plants-wont-be-regulated","title":{"rendered":"CRISPR plants won\u2019t be regulated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crispr-plants-wont-be-regulated.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a big win for the biotech industry, the <a href=\"https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/accounts\/USDAAPHIS\/bulletins\/1e599ff\">US Department of Agriculture says<\/a> once and for all it won\u2019t regulate plants whose genomes have been altered using gene-editing technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it\u2019s a field day:<\/strong> The decision means that we could see a boom in newfangled plants from firms like Monsanto, universities, and startups like Calyxt, whose oil-altered soybeans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/609230\/these-are-not-your-fathers-gmos\/\">featured in our cover story late last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s the logic:<\/strong> The USDA says gene editing is just a (much) faster form of breeding. So long as a genetic alteration could have been bred into a plant, it won\u2019t be regulated. That includes changes that create immunity to disease or natural resistance to crop chemicals, as well as edits to make seeds bigger and heavier. It <em>doesn\u2019t<\/em> include transgenic plants (those with a gene from a distant species)\u2014those <em>will<\/em> still be regulated.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/610723\/crispr-plants-wont-be-regulated\/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-03-29&utm_campaign=Technology+Review\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/610723\/crispr-...ogy+Review<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a big win for the biotech industry, the US Department of Agriculture says once and for all it won\u2019t regulate plants whose genomes have been altered using gene-editing technology. Why it\u2019s a field day: The decision means that we could see a boom in newfangled plants from firms like Monsanto, universities, and startups like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}