A gene in my cereal – Assignment #4, Mads Waatland Jakobsen
I often eat Kellogg’s Corn Flakes for
breakfast, and it turns out, they use sugar from genetically engineered sugar
beets (Beta vulgaris). That’s the case in US, not Norway as they don’t import
GM products. The genetically modified sugar beet was created by Monsanto, to
resist herbicides like Roundup, and is by far the most popular source for sugar
in the US. The gene that makes sugar beets resistant to glyphosate (the
ingredient in Roundup that kills weed) was originally taken from the GM maize
gene zm-epsps, which was extracted from the common soil bacteria, Agrobacterium
tumefaciens strain CP4. The trait gene in sugar beets from Monsanto is called
cp4 epsps.
cp4 epsps FMV e35S H7-1 Monsanto 2007
Jerry M. Green - Evolution of
Glyphosate-Resistant Crop Technology -http://allenpress.com/pdf/wees_57.1_108_117.pdf Weed
Science 2009 57:108–117
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