A cooperative governance network for crop genome editing: The success of governance networks in other areas could help to find common ground for applying genome editing in agriculture

Nicholas R Jordan; Kevin M Dorn; Timothy M Smith; Katie E Wolf; Patrick M Ewing; Adria L Fernandez; Bryan C Runck; Alwyn Williams; You Lu; Jennifer Kuzma

doi:10.15252/embr.201744394

A cooperative governance network for crop genome editing: The success of governance networks in other areas could help to find common ground for applying genome editing in agriculture

EMBO Rep. 2017 Oct;18(10):1683-1687. doi: 10.15252/embr.201744394. Epub 2017 Sep 19.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.
² Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA.
³ Department of Bioproducts & Biosystems Engineering and Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.
⁴ Humphrey School of Public Affairs University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.
⁵ Department of Geography, Environment and Society, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.
⁶ Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.
⁷ Genetic Engineering and Society Center and School of Public and International Affairs, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.

Abstract

The application of genome editing for crop improvement has been lagging mainly owing to public debate about and continued activism against genetically modified crops. Cooperative Governance networks could be way out of the conundrum to enable safe and acceptable use of genome editing in agriculture.

MeSH terms

Cooperative Behavior
Crop Production / economics
Crop Production / methods
Crop Production / organization & administration*
Crops, Agricultural / genetics*
Crops, Agricultural / growth & development
Gene Editing*