Nick Gosman, Ph.D.
Senior Program Leader in the Crop Efficiency Group in Trait Research at Bayer Crop Science
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Nick Gosman is a Senior Program Leader in the Crop Efficiency group in Trait Research at Bayer. He is currently developing a collaborative project with Breeding and Trait Development to better understand yield formation in wheat at the physiological and genetic level.
Prior to joining Bayer, Nick was a Senior Program Leader in Pre-Breeding research at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) in Cambridge, UK. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Plant Pathology at the John Innes Centre in Norwich and Masters’ degrees in Plant Breeding and Molecular Genetics at the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberystwyth. In addition to experience in molecular research, Nick has worked for more than 15 years as a commercial cereal breeder in the UK and Australia.
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A: A great resource for information on biotech crops is found at International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA), which includes a list of all GM crops planted, as well as the countries with approved GM crop products. It is important to note that not every GM product that has been approved by regulators for cultivation is commercially produced. Even in the United States, there are a number of examples of this situation. In the United States, as mentioned above, eight GM crops are grown: corn (sweet and field), soybean, cotton, canola, sugar beet, alfalfa, papa [...]
A: Of the commercial broad-acre crops, the United States leads the world in the production of food using GM technology growing significant acreages of corn, oilseed rape, cotton and soybean. The major GM traits for these crops are herbicide tolerance for corn, oilseeds and soybean, and insect resistance in cotton. Some GM (pathogen-resistant) papaya is grown in Hawaii. These crops make up the bulk of the 169 m acres (68.4 m ha) planted with GM crops in the United States. This represents 39 percent of global area planted with GM crops, 84.4 percent of the GM area in industrialized countries and h [...]