Mr. Cara Mac Aodh?in:

To double up on what Dr. Mullins said earlier, all of the material used to produce NGTs are from the breeder's gene pool so it is material that can be used in conventional breeding, currently. If one is breeding barley he or she uses genetic material from other barley varieties or crop-wide relatives that are related to barley and used in conventional breeding already. It is just a method of being more precise and breeding new varieties. It is from the same pool of genetic material so safety concerns really are the same as with conventional varieties and there are no safety concerns with them.