{"id":828,"date":"2016-12-22T10:04:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T10:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/master.k8s.p4.greenpeace.org\/india\/?p=828"},"modified":"2019-11-06T08:45:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:45:46","slug":"genetically-modified-mustard-not-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/publication\/828\/genetically-modified-mustard-not-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"GENETICALLY MODIFIED mustard is not needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The proposal to allow cultivation of the genetically modified (GM) oilseed mustard (Brassica juncea) DMH-11 (also tolerant to the herbicide, glufosinate ammonium) is based on the paradigm that conventional breeding techniques cannot produce hybrids with sufficient yields. However, this paradigm doesn\u2019t take into account recent advances with either conventional breeding or the production of hybrid varieties, both of which can produce high-yielding varieties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-india-stateless\/2018\/06\/gm-mustard-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greenpeace-genetically-modified-mustard-report<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_831\" style=\"width: 638px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-india-stateless\/2018\/06\/gm-mustard-report.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-831\" class=\"wp-image-831 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-india-stateless\/2018\/06\/Mustard-Post.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-india-stateless\/2018\/06\/Mustard-Post.png 628w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-india-stateless\/2018\/06\/Mustard-Post-231x300.png 231w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-india-stateless\/2018\/06\/Mustard-Post-262x340.png 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cover of the Genetically modified mustart report<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposal to allow cultivation of the genetically modified (GM) oilseed mustard DMH-11 doesn\u2019t take into account recent advances with either conventional breeding production of hybrid varieties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[27,33],"p4-page-type":[15],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-living","tag-sustainable-agriculture","tag-safefood","p4-page-type-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4221,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/4221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}