Mart Saarma: Genetic Engineering Gives Cultivated Plants the Mantle of Precision Breeding

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The genetic differences between a wild plant and a cultivated plant bred from it are so great that the latter can be called a genetically modified plant. However, genetic technology allows for such narrow-range changes that it would be more accurate to call them precision-bred plants, writes Mart Saarma, President of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, in the language advice series "Academician's Special".