Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University FUJIMOTO Takafumi
In the history of human food production,
selective breeding has been used to achieve better production. In selective
breeding, useful traits have been specialized and organisms have changed to
show a variety of forms and characteristics. On the other hand, genetic
recombination technology is considered one of the effective breeding techniques
in that it can introduce traits that cannot be obtained by crossbreeding
between the same species. In this lecture, plant and animal breeding will be
outlined, salmon, the first genetically modified food approved by the FDA for
animals, will be introduced as a representative example, and methods for
producing genetically modified organisms will be explained and their use will
be considered.
