#4 Plant breeding without genetic engineering

Posted by Markus Kobelt | 2010-07-27

We at Lubera are breeding plants since about 20 years. We do not use modern methods of genetic engineering, we are breeding the old, natural way (pollination, selection...).

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2010-09-02: Zoe Twirly said...

Have an old red apple tree, I think it is Sweetheart, but a bit temperamental. Would like to order a Redlove but worried about gm. No point in growing my own gm food!.Probably eat some without realizing it anyway. Hope you only joking when you end the video 'Don't believe anything I am saying!'.

2010-09-02: Markus Kobelt said...

Hallo Zoe
I understand that my last standard sentence which I'm saying in all videos 'don't believe everything,,,' is disturbing you. My goal with this sentence is to motivate people to comment, to ask, to share their experience - like you did....

We really are not using these techiques - and they woudnt even not be reachable for a small company like we are; - )

For me and for us, GMO breeding is not only technically difficult and perhaps dangerous, not only ethically questionable, but in the end it makes also no sense. With these techniques you can only produce variants of a known product, if you really want to breed new fruits you have to rely on classic breeding, of the free recombination of genes by mother nature.

thanks for commenting

markus

 
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