New foods for thought

Auteur(s) :
Hirschi KD.
Date :
Jan, 2012
Source(s) :
TRENDS PLANT SCI. #17:3 p123-125
Adresse :
United States Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service, Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA

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Recent findings show that genetic material in plant foods may survive digestion, circulate through our bodies and modulate our gene expression. These findings could alter our understanding of nutrition, genetic regulation and open up new vistas for engineering foods.

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