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Location NOI Techpark Südtirol/Altoadige A.-Volta-Straße 13/A - 39100 Bozen/Südtirol - Italien (Seminarraum 2, Etage -1 )

Departments CC Plant Health

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14 Nov 2022 17:00-20:00

Green genetic engineering: Let's talk about it!

According to United Nations estimates, the world's population will continue to grow until 2100. Then we will have to feed not eight, but eleven billion people through agriculture.

Location NOI Techpark Südtirol/Altoadige A.-Volta-Straße 13/A - 39100 Bozen/Südtirol - Italien (Seminarraum 2, Etage -1 )

Departments CC Plant Health

Contact planthealth@unibz.it

For thousands of years, people have been crossing and selecting plants that have shown advantageous characteristics such as higher yields or larger fruits due to spontaneously occurring mutations. The methods for doing this have evolved greatly in recent years and now allow for a much faster and more targeted breeding process.
What are the differences between crossbreeding, mutagenesis, classical genetic engineering and genome editing?

Let's talk about it!

We look forward to seeing you there!