MON-87751-7 - Insect resistant soybean | BCH-LMO-SCBD-110062 | Living Modified Organism | Biosafety Clearing-House

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Insect resistant soybean
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MON87751
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MON-87751-7
Soybean was modified with the insertion of the Cry1A.105 and Cry2Ab2 proteins which provide protection from feeding damage caused by targeted lepidopteran pests, such as primary target pests velvetbean caterpillar (Anticarcia gemmatalis), soybean looper (Pseudoplusia includens), soybean anxil borer (Epinotia aporema), and sunflower looper (Rachiplusia nu).
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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
PV-GMIR13196
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  • Agrobacterium-mediated DNA transfer
 
1.722 kb
 
 
0.263 kb
 
 
3.533 kb
 
 
0.399 kb
 
Some of these genetic elements may be present as fragments or truncated forms. Please see notes below, where applicable.
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-43771-9 Cry1A.105 | Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt, Bacillus, BACTU)
    Protein coding sequence | Resistance to diseases and pests (Insects, Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths))
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-14988-7 Cry2Ab2 | Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt, Bacillus, BACTU)
    Protein coding sequence | Resistance to diseases and pests (Insects, Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths))
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-104517-2 Actin 2 promoter | Arabidopsis thaliana (Thale cress, Mouse-ear cress, Arabidopsis, ARATH)
    Promoter
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-100365-6 Chloroplast transit peptide 2 | Arabidopsis thaliana (Thale cress, Mouse-ear cress, Arabidopsis, ARATH)
    Transit signal
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-110059-1 Metallothionein-like gene terminator | Oryza sativa (Rice, ORYSA)
    Terminator
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-103851-5 rbcS Promoter | Arabidopsis thaliana (Thale cress, Mouse-ear cress, Arabidopsis, ARATH)
    Promoter
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-101902-4 rbcS Transit Peptide | Arabidopsis thaliana (Thale cress, Mouse-ear cress, Arabidopsis, ARATH)
    Transit signal
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-110061-1 Phosphate transporter gene terminator | Medicago truncatula (Barrelclover, Strong-spined medick, Barrel medic, Barrel medick, MEDTR)
    Terminator
PV-GMIR13196 contains two separate T-DNAs that are each delineated by left and right border regions. The first T-DNA, designated as T-DNA I, contains the crylA.105 and cry2Ab2 expression cassettes, with genetic elements as indicated above.

The second T-DNA, designated as T-DNA II, contains marker genes that allow for simplified selection of transformed tissue. During transformation, both T-DNAs were inserted into the soybean genome. Subsequently, traditional breeding, segregation, selection and screening were used to isolate those plants that contain the crylA.105 and cry2Ab2 expression cassettes and do not contain the marker gene expression cassettes.

Characterization of the DNA insert in MON 87751 was conducted using a combination of sequencing, PCR, and bioinformatics. The results of this characterization demonstrate that MON 87751 contains one copy of T-DNA I containing the cry1A.105 and cry2Ab2 expression cassettes that is stably integrated at a single locus and is inherited according to Mendelian principles over multiple generations. No vector backbone sequences were detetcted
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LMO characteristics
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  • Food
Detection method(s)
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Additional Information
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