术语“新基因组技术”(NGT)或“基因组编辑”是指允许发现的各种方法,劈开,修复基因组中的特定序列。这些技术可以有助于管理植物育种和农业中的各种挑战。除了监管的不确定性,缺乏消费者的接受度经常被认为是NGT在全球植物育种和农业中广泛使用的重要障碍。本研究基于匿名在线调查(N=1202)。它调查了来自两个国家的消费者在基因技术监管方面存在差异,即美利坚合众国和瑞士,关于NGTs在植物育种中的三个具体应用的思考(即,抗枯萎病马铃薯,无麸质小麦,耐寒大豆)。这项研究强调了情感启发式对接受的重要性,由于两国一半的参与者对这三个申请表达了积极的感受,四分之一的参与者表示否定,剩下的参与者表达了撕裂或中立的情绪。提供了一些证据,表明监管背景可能起到了风险提示的作用,瑞士的参与者表达了更多的负面情绪,感知,接受度低于来自美利坚合众国的参与者。最后,我们的发现强调了生命科学和社会科学之间合作在平衡技术创新和公众认知和接受方面的重要性,在这项研究中已经显示出受影响的影响,值,和背景。
The terms \"New Genomic Techniques\" (NGTs) or \"Genome Editing\" refer to various methods that allow finding, cleaving, and repairing specific sequences in the genome. These techniques could contribute to managing various challenges in plant breeding and agriculture. Aside from regulatory uncertainties, the lack of consumer acceptance has frequently been cited as a significant barrier to the widespread use of NGTs in plant breeding and agriculture across the planet. This study was based on an anonymous online survey (N = 1202). It investigated what consumers from two countries that differ in gene technology regulation, namely the United States of America and Switzerland, thought about three specific applications of NGTs in plant breeding (i.e., blight-resistant potato, gluten-free wheat, cold-resistant soybean). The study highlights the importance of the affect heuristic for acceptance, as half of the participants in both countries expressed positive feelings regarding the three applications, a quarter of the participants expressed negative, and the remaining participants expressed torn or neutral emotions. Some evidence was provided that the regulatory context might have acted as a risk cue, as participants in Switzerland expressed more negative feelings, perceptions, and lower acceptance than participants from the United States of America. Lastly, our findings underscore the importance of a collaboration between the life sciences and social sciences in balancing technological innovations and public perceptions and acceptance, which have been shown in this study to be impacted by affect, values, and context.