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Article title: DMH-11 Mustard

Article working URL : Draft:DMH-11 Mustard -DMH-11 Mustard

Associated Wikiproject:WikiProject Agriculture / WikiProject Plants

Sections

1) History

Brief history of the reason for creating the new mustard variety (reduce India's dependance on oil imports). Where it was created? (University of Delhi by Dr. Deepak Pental and his colleagues).

2) Development

Dicusses in detail the technology and protocols of creating the new mustard variety (Bar-Barnase-Barstar system leading to male sterile plants and glufosinate resistance)

3) Performance

Discusses the field trials undergone by DMH-11, and it's performance in terms of yield heterosis. Also this section will include the performance of DMH-11 in allergenicity tests for potential food allergies to consumers.

4) Controversy

DMH-11's herbicide resistant trait raises issues regarding: over-spraying of Glufosinate (Phosphinothricin) which could cause serious health effects and the emergence of new evolved "super-weeds".

Sources

1) Siruguri, V., Bharatraj, D.K., Vankudavath, R.N., Mendu, V.V.R., Gupta, V. and Goodman, R.E., 2015. Evaluation of Bar, Barnase, and Barstar recombinant proteins expressed in genetically engineered Brassica juncea (Indian mustard) for potential risks of food allergy using bioinformatics and literature searches. Food and Chemical Toxicology, 83, pp.93-102.


 * Will be used in development section. Provide background regarding the technology/ protocol used to develop the hybrid mustard variety.

2) KESAVAN, P. and SWAMINATHAN, M., 2018. THREE DECADES OF EXPERIENCE WITH GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROPS: WAY FORWARD IN THE INDIAN CONTEXT. SCIENCE AND CULTURE.


 * Will be used in the controversy section. Provides information regarding the negative effects of the hybrid mustard's glufosinate (herbcide) resistance. Will also be used in the Performance section because it contains statistics regarding DMH-11's field trial performance.

3) Vijayan, V.S., Sálim Ali Foundation Kanimangalam Post; Thrissur, India www. salimalifoundation. org vijayanvadayil@ gmail. com.


 * Will be used in the development and controversy section. Provides detailed information regarding the Bar-Barnase-Barstar gene technology employed in manufacturing the DMH-11 mustard variety. Discuss glufosinate tolerance and its adverse effects.

4) Kumar, S., Bhatnagar, R.K., Kranthi, K.R. and Datta, S.K., 2014. The legal battle over field trials of GM crops. Nature India.


 * This will be used in the controversy section. Reliable, published in a journal article (so peer-reviewed).



5) Jayaraman, K., 2017. Activists bury India's GM mustard hopes.


 * this will be used in the controversy section. Discusses the concerns of conducting field trials for dmh-11 mustard.

6) Ramchiary, N., Padmaja, K.L., Sharma, S., Gupta, V., Sodhi, Y.S., Mukhopadhyay, A., Arumugam, N., Pental, D. and Pradhan, A.K., 2007. Mapping of yield influencing QTL in Brassica juncea: implications for breeding of a major oilseed crop of dryland areas. Theoretical and applied genetics, 115(6), pp.807-817.


 * will be used exclusively for the Performance section. Details the field performance of DMH-11 (yield heterosis). Also discusses yield component traits such as seed size and siliqua length of the hybrid.