Ethical and legal implications of gene editing in plant breeding: a systematic literature review

Biotechnology policies and regulations must be revised and updated to reflect the most recent advances in plant-breeding technology. New Plant Breeding Techniques (NPBT) such as gene editing have been applied to address the myriad of challenges in plant breeding, while the use of NPBT as emerging bi...

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Published inJournal of Zhejiang University. B. Science p. 1
Main Authors Idris, Siti Hafsyah, Mat Jalaluddin, Nurzatil Sharleeza, Chang, Lee Wei, 曾, 立 纬
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published China 06.07.2023
Subjects
Virtue ethics principles
Plant breeding
Gene editing
Ethical and legal issues
Consequentialism
Systematic literature review
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Summary:Biotechnology policies and regulations must be revised and updated to reflect the most recent advances in plant-breeding technology. New Plant Breeding Techniques (NPBT) such as gene editing have been applied to address the myriad of challenges in plant breeding, while the use of NPBT as emerging biotechnological tools raises legal and ethical concerns. This study aims to highlight how gene editing is operationalized in the existing literature and examine the critical issues of ethical and legal issues of gene editing for plant breeding. We carried out a systematic literature review (SLR) to provide the current states of ethical and legal discourses surrounding this topic. We also identified critical research priority areas and policy gaps that must be addressed when designing the future governance of gene editing in plant breeding.
ISSN:1862-1783