Genetic use restriction technology (GURT), also known as terminator technology or suicide seeds, is designed to restrict access to "genetic materials and their associated phenotypic traits."

Sep 3, 2014 · Genetic use restriction technologies could be used for the environmental containment of transgenic seeds (V-GURT) or transgenes (T-GURT), thus solving or marginalizing one of the greatest concerns associated with GM …

Dec 20, 2023 · One of the key technologies that enabled the development of GM crops is genetic use restriction technology (GURT). GURT, also known as terminator technology, involves the modification of plant seeds to produce sterile offspring.

Genetic Use Restriction Technologies (“GURTs”) is an ongoing topic of discussion under the Convention on Biological Diversity. The current focus surrounding this topic concerns whether and how GURTs may impact indigenous peoples, local communities and small-holder farmers.

Genetic use restriction technologies (GURTs), developed to secure return on investments through protection of plant varieties, are among the most controversial and opposed genetic engineering biotechnologies as they are perceived as a tool to force farmers to depend on multinational corporations' se …

Sep 21, 2011 · Genetic Use Restriction Technologies (GURTs), sometimes referred to as terminator technologies, are experimental forms of genetic engineering technology that provide the means to either restrict the use of a plant variety, or the expression of a trait in a plant variety, by turning a genetic switch on or off.

Apr 4, 2014 · Potential impacts of genetic use restriction technologies (GURTs) on agricultural biodiversity and agricultural production systems: report submitted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Apr 1, 2007 · Genetic use restriction technologies (GURTs) have been defined as a range of molecular strategies designed to impede transgene movement (http://www.biodiv.org/doc/meetings/cop/cop-07/information/cop-07-inf-31-en.pdf).

Mar 20, 2012 · Genetic use restriction technology (GURT) refers to genetic switch mechanisms that control the expression of value-added traits or reproductive viability in newly developed agricultural plant and animal varieties. The potential to develop agricultural seed that produces non-viable offspring led to the term 'terminator' technology.

Nov 29, 2022 · Trait specific genetic use restriction technologies (T-GURT) are a second type of GURT that would modify a crop in such a way that the genetic enhancement engineered into the crop does not function until the plant is treated with a specific chemical.