The worlds population is still growing up and asking for more and better food. High yielding plants with low external inputs should be the main aim of plant breeding to meet the higher demand for man and animal. Apart from traditional breeding plant biotechnology seems to have a certain potential to contribute to this objective. Safety and nutritional studies with such modified plants are the most important prerequisites for public acceptance of derived feed and food.
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Flachowsky et al. (2010) studied this question.
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