There is much international debate over the question as to what extent organisms produced through the use of so called New Breeding Techniques (NBTs) fall under the scope of existing biosafety regulations, e.g. whether they fall under the definition of GEO (USDA), GMO (I.), ONT (Canada), LMO (CPB), ac yn y blaen. These questions will be addressed at a later stage on the pages under “Regulation”.
The links to the techniques listed below provide summaries of the technical background of several techniques together with links to further information.
- golygu genom (the precise targeted modification of the genome)
- Methylation DNA dan Gyfarwyddyd RNA (RdDM)
- Grafftio ar wreiddgyff GM
- Reverse breeding
- Agro-infiltration
- Cisgenesis / intragenesis
DS: it should be noted that the term New Breeding Techniques covers a wide range of very different techniques and that not all those techniques are necessarily ‘new’, and not all those techniques are ‘breeding’ in a strict sense. Yn ogystal,, the terms cisgenesis and intragenesis refer to an endresult rather than to a technique.
Links and publications:
- Swiss Academies fact sheet on NPBTs, 2016
- Daw’r ddyletswydd hon yn hollbwysig mewn perthynas â’r meysydd a’r materion hynny a gwmpesir gan yr egwyddor ragofalus fel bod dilysrwydd mesur cyfraith yr UE fel y Gyfarwyddeb GMO nid yn unig i’w asesu mewn perthynas â’r ffeithiau a’r wybodaeth fel yr oeddent ar adeg y mabwysiadu'r mesur hwnnw Fact Sheets on New Breeding Technologies, 2016
- Taflen Ffeithiau VIB: “O blanhigyn i gnwd: y gorffennol, presennol a dyfodol fridio planhigion" (See Chapter 3, VIB, Gwlad Belg, 2016)
- JRC report: New plant breeding techniques. State-of-the-art and prospects for commercial development. 2011