Are You Ready for [a] Roundup?—What Chemistry Has to Do with Genetic Modifications

• Bert Pöpping ^[1]
  1. [1] Eurofins Scientific, United Kingdom
• Localización: Journal of chemical education, ISSN 0021-9584, Vol. 78, Nº 6, 2001, pág. 752
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Genetically modified crops are grown in most parts of the world nowadays. These transgenic plants have new properties such as herbicide tolerance or insect resistance that often cannot be introduced by conventional breeding. Using examples of very common transgenic varieties, the article explains how the knowledge of metabolic pathways and genetic information is used to design these plants and how the same knowledge is used to detect them. It reviews why detection of genetic modifications in plants has become necessary and describes the most common detection methods, from immunological assays to polymerase chain reaction and real-time detection.