It is clear that antibiotic marker genes need to be phased out and be replaced with alternatives as soon as practically possible. A phase-out is already foreseen in the common position. The commission agrees to strengthen this political message’. Yet she further compounded the belief that the EU are attempting a biopolitical compromise by simultaneously operating a public attitude agenda and a ...

The DNA target sequence is the key element in designing detection methods for genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Unfortunately this information is frequently lacking, especially for unauthorized GMOs. In addition, patent sequences are generally poorly annotated, buried in complex and extensive documentation and hard to link to the corresponding GM event. Here, we present the JRC GMO-Amplico...

World leaders meeting at the G8 summit in St Petersburg last month had hoped for at least one outcome: a boost to the flagging world trade negotiations in the current round that have been struggling since their initiation in Doha in 2001. Agreement must be reached this month if progress is to be made in this round. Issues are many and various, but in Europe one battle between EU member states a...

Advances in biotechnology have enabled the development and production of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) with properties such as tolerance to herbicides, resistance to insects and the addition of nutrition values. Transformation of plants is done by inserting DNA into a single cell, which is then regrown into a complete organism, the plant. DNA is the blueprint of each cell that is transc...

Agrobacterium mediated transformation in nature is the cause of development diseases: crown galls and hairy roots. These neoplasms are transgenic tissues on a non-transgenic plant. However, nature, full-fledged GMOs arise, containing agrobacterial transgenes every cell transmitting them series sexual generations. plants called naturally or natural GMOs. Over past 3 years, list GMO species has b...