HZU-HHØØ1-9 - Insect resistent rice | BCH-LMO-SCBD-106014 | Living Modified Organism | Biosafety Clearing-House

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Living Modified Organism (LMO)

Decisions on the LMO Risk Assessments  
published: 30 Oct 2014 last updated: 26 Jul 2019
Living Modified Organism identity
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Insect resistent rice
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Bt63 (TT51-1)
Yes
HZU-HHØØ1-9
Modified rice BT63 (TT51-1) is an insect-resistant strain that expresses a codon-optimized, truncated Cry1Ab/Ac fusion cassette derived from sequences of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. Kurstaki HD1 and HD73. The synthetic construct encodes an insecticidal protein conferring resistance against certain lepidoptera species.
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The term “Recipient organism” refers to an organism (either already modified or non-modified) that was subjected to genetic modification, whereas “Parental organisms” refers to those that were involved in cross breeding or cell fusion.
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Characteristics of the modification process
pFHBT1 and pGL2RC7
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  • Biolistic / Particle gun
Some of these genetic elements may be present as fragments or truncated forms. Please see notes below, where applicable.
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-100355-6 Rice actin 1, intron | Oryza sativa (Rice, ORYSA)
    Intron
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-103109-5 Cry1Ab/Ac | Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt, Bacillus, BACTU)
    Protein coding sequence | Resistance to diseases and pests (Insects, Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), Cotton bollworm (Helicoverpa spp.))
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-100269-8 Nopaline Synthase Gene Terminator | Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Agrobacterium)
    Terminator
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-14975-5 Beta-lactamase gene | Escherichia coli (ECOLX)
    Protein coding sequence | Resistance to antibiotics (Ampicillin)
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-100364-5 Rice actin 1 gene promoter | Oryza sativa (Rice, ORYSA)
    Promoter
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-14991-8 Hygromycin B phosphotransferase gene | Escherichia coli (ECOLX)
    Protein coding sequence | Resistance to antibiotics (Hygromycin),Selectable marker genes and reporter genes
Expression:
The expression of the hybrid Crystal protein 1Ab/Ac (Cry1Ab/Ac) is under the control of a Oryza sativa (rice) Actin 1 gene promoter and the Agrobacterium tumefaciens nopaline synthase (nos) terminator. The first intron of rice Actin 1 was included with the promoter to promote expression of Cry1Ab/Ac in the rice plant.

Hybrid Cry1Ab/Ac:
The hybrid Cry1Ab/Ac consists of 1344 bp from B. thuringiensis HD1 Cry1Ab and 486 bp from B. thuringiensis HD73 Cry1Ac. The sequence of the hybrid Cry1Ab/Ac was sequence optimized for high G/C content for efficient expression in rice.

Information regarding the transgene insertion:
The transgenic insert contains two tandem repeats of a Cry1Ab/Ac cassette integrated at the same site as a head-to tail concatemer. The first Cry1Ab/Ac cassette at the 5' end of the transgenic insert contains a truncated Actin 1 promoter (149 bp) which is missing the regulatory elements for maximal gene expression and cannot encode for a functional protein.

The second Cry1Ab/Ac cassette is complete. An 83 bp long segment of the Amp gene is located between the two tandem repeats of the Cry1Ab/Ac cassette. Incomplete ampicillin (653 bp) and hygromycin (50 bp) resistance genes are further located in the 3' downstream region.
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LMO characteristics
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  • Food
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