GMOs are the most controversial area of science, with genetic engineering widely accepted for medical uses like insulin but more debated for food and agriculture. While humans have modified plants and animals for over 1,000 years through selective breeding, GMOs are seen as different because they are based on inserting beneficial traits using biotechnology rather than natural selection. GMOs could help increase crop yields needed to feed a growing population, make plants more resistant to pests and diseases, and engineer crops that can withstand climate change. However, some argue GMOs could lead to "super bugs" and "super weeds" resistant to pesticides and have unintended consequences.

2. • GMO’s are the most controversial
area of science.
• Genetic engineering is used in many fields
,but even though medical application like
GM insulin are widely accepted.
• the debate heats up when it come to food
& agriculture.

4. Why is the same thing treated so
differently!
Let try to get the bottom of this and explore the FACTS
,THE FEAR & and the FUTURE of GMO’s

6. Humans have been genetically modifying plants & animals for more
than 1000 years ( selective breading)

7. After thousands of years ,almost every single plant & animal
around us is vastly different from its pre-domesticated state

8. If humans have been changing gene for millennia what makes
GMO so called Genetically modified Organisms or so different
Selective breeding is based on Natural Selection
But GMOs are based on traits which are beneficial to us . It
depends on us if we want that character or not
For example we can increase the size of the fruit & and even
make it more Disease & Pests resist

9. Let us take few examples
• A gene was
borrowed from the
Bacterium called
Bacillus
Thuringinesis.
• So they inserted
that gene in plant
and make it to
produce a protein
that destroys the
digestive system of
specific insect

11. Frequently farmers are getting sick by cultivating of egg plants and the reason was
pest & insecticides so they have introduced genetically modified eggplant in the
year 2013. ultimately farmers are getting befitted and their yield health were good

12. Hawaiian papaya
In the year 1990 the papaya
industry in Hawaii was under
attack from Ringspot Virus
which threatened to wipe out
Hawaiian papaya.
The solution was GM papaya
to be vaccinated against the
virus.
Without it the state papaya
industry would be collapsed.

14. Scientists are working on Gmo's that could improve our diet
Like fruits with higher Antioxidant levels that helps to fights disease
Rice with additional vitamins

15. On large scale we are trying to engineer plants more relevant to change climate
making them to resist drought & flood

16. Scientists are working on crops that can draw Nitrogen from the air like microbes
Nitrogen is a common fertilizer but it build up pollutes the ground water & speed up
climate change.

17. World eats 11 million pounds of food every day.
UN estimate suggests well need 70% more by 2050

18. Gmo’s would be the most powerful
weapon to save our biosphere
In a survey conducted by N.A.S USA the reports say that from
1990 to 2011 the amount of irrigation water required for the
fields is reduced up to 53%

19. Now we will discuss about the
disadvantages of GMOS.
• Super bugs
strain of bacteria that has become
resistant to antibiotic drugs
• Super weeds
a weed which is extremely resistant
to herbicides, especially one created
by the transfer of genes from
genetically modified crops into wild
plants.

20. Terminator seeds

22. With the tool we have today our imagination is the limit.

25. Thank you
A presentation by A.Bharath Reddy