Genome Editing represents game-changing technology that will enable plant scientists to aid farmers in the production of nutritious food with lower inputs that can mitigate the impacts of climate change.
Therefore it is important for researchers to share their expertise and experience with regard the technical and regulatory challenges of uptake of GE technologies.
We will introduce activities that promote communication between scientists, members of industry and farmers in order to facilitate the development and uptake of GE crops.
The Global Plant Council (GPC) represents a coalition of 24 plant science organisations and promotes plant science technologies through ~3 million annual interactions across online and social media channels. In addition the GPC has recently attended the COP28 UN Climate Convention and COP15 UN Biodiversity Convention to ensure that the voices of plant scientists are heard at these high- profile events.
Over the past four years the COST Association PlantEd project has promoted GE technologies in Europe, which has resulted in the publication of a free-to- download book entitled ‘A Roadmap for Plant Gene Editing’ (https://shorturl.at/xKPZ8). In this presentation we will highlight past and future PlantEd activities to promote uptake of GE technologies.
The PlantEd gene editing project will continue as part of the activities of the ‘Association of Applied Biologists’ (AAB), which is a UK-based Learned Society whose members are mostly scientists involved in projects that work toward improving agricultural productivity. We will introduce the activities of AAB and promote their in-house journals ‘Annals of Applied Biology’ and ‘Plant Biotechnology Journal’. We introduce a special issue of Annals of Applied Biology focussed on ‘Advances in Indian Plant Genomic Technologies’.
