La ingeniería genética de plantas en Colombia: Un camino en construcción

Abstract

Here in Colombia have been reported efforts on the development of genetically modifed (GM) crops, like: rice, cassava, cotton, potato, sugar cane, coffee, corn, soy, stevia and chrysanthemum, by fve research center (CIAT, CENICAÑA, CENICAFE, CIB, CORPOICA) and three universities (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universidad Javeriana, Universidad de Antioquia). To get to the commercial release of GM varieties, real public policies on science and technology are needed, giving suffcient and timely funding, as well as to solve problems with the tangle of patents that limit or prevent the development of biotechnological innovations, and it is also required suffce funding to go through the regulatory issues, which signifcantly increase the cost of those developments.