How can we trust a compagnie that modifying DNA with plasmide from agrobacteria when we know for exemple that lyme disease is a plasmide bacteria and why are you keeping most of DNA part sources secret for your GMO if you pretend that it's not dangerous?

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Wednesday, 26/02/2014 17:20

GMO-Safety.eu provides basic background information on the use of Agrobacterium to modify plants, and describes Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation as “one of the most commonly used methods for transporting new genes into plant cells and for ensuring their stable integration into the genome.”

According to Dr. Peter Davies, professor of plant physiology and international professor of plant biology at Cornell University, “plasmids are a very small piece of bacterial DNA. Agrobacterium, as a very specific property of that bacterium, transfers a small portion of a very special plasmid to the DNA of a plant. This characteristic is used as a valuable property to transfer new genes to the plant’s DNA. The occurrence of the DNA encoding a membrane protein on a plasmid of an entirely different Lyme disease bacterium has absolutely nothing to do with using Agrobacterium as a vector in plant cell transformation.”

Expert response from Joshua Price

Wednesday, 26/02/2014 17:17

GMO-Safety.eu provides basic background information on the use of Agrobacterium to modify plants, and describes Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation as “one of the most commonly used methods for transporting new genes into plant cells and for ensuring their stable integration into the genome.”

According to Dr. Peter Davies, professor of plant physiology and international professor of plant biology at Cornell University, “plasmids are a very small piece of bacterial DNA. Agrobacterium, as a very specific property of that bacterium, transfers a small portion of a very special plasmid to the DNA of a plant. This characteristic is used as a valuable property to transfer new genes to the plant’s DNA. The occurrence of the DNA encoding a membrane protein on a plasmid of an entirely different Lyme disease bacterium has absolutely nothing to do with using Agrobacterium as a vector in plant cell transformation.”