Mycotoxin risks are lower in biotech corn.
Curr Opin Biotechnol
; 78: 102792, 2022 Dec.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-36088737
ABSTRACT
Mycotoxins are food contaminants that occur when toxigenic fungi colonize crops. Unfortunately, corn, a major staple crop worldwide, is highly susceptible to mycotoxin contamination. Some mycotoxins, most notably aflatoxin, cause human cancer and other harmful effects such as immunotoxicity and growth impairment. Hence, many nations have set food-safety standards on mycotoxins. Aside from regulations, good agricultural and manufacturing practices lower mycotoxin risks. Agricultural biotechnology has made notable advances in reducing mycotoxins recently. While transgenic Bt corn has been known for years to reduce the mycotoxin fumonisin, new studies have shown its benefit in reducing aflatoxin as well. Other transgenic and RNA-interference corn hybrids target mycotoxin reduction specifically, and gene editing through clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat systems has focused on preventing mycotoxin biosynthesis.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Aflatoxinas
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Fumonisinas
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Micotoxinas
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Guideline
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Curr Opin Biotechnol
Assunto da revista:
BIOTECNOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2022
Tipo de documento:
Article