MON-87427-7 × DAS-4Ø278-9 - Herbicide tolerant maize | BCH-LMO-SCBD-115717 | Living Modified Organism | Biosafety Clearing-House

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Living Modified Organism (LMO)
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Decisions on the LMO Risk Assessments  
published: 10 Sep 2020 last updated: 25 Mar 2022
Living Modified Organism identity
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Herbicide tolerant maize
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MON87427 × DAS40278
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MON-87427-7 × DAS-4Ø278-9
The modified maize (Zea mays) was produced through cross breeding of modified parental lines to express tolerance to multiple herbicides. For glyphosate tolerance, the maize expresses Agrobacterium tumefaciens 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase, which encodes a variant of an endogenous enzyme involved in the essential biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids (shikimate pathway). The  variant prevents the binding of the compound to the enzyme and the subsequent inactivation. In addition, the modified maize expresses Sphingobium herbicidovorans aryloxyalkanoate dioxygenase, which cleaves 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid into non-herbicidal dichlorophenol and glyoxylate, as well as inactivates aryloxyphenoxypropionate herbicides (acetyl‐CoA carboxylase inhibitors).
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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.
  • BCH-ORGA-SCBD-246-6 Organism Zea mays (Maize, Corn, MAIZE)
    Crops
  • BCH-LMO-SCBD-104758-3 Living Modified Organism MON-87427-7 - Maize modified for tissue selective glyphosate tolerance
    Monsanto | Resistance to herbicides (Glyphosate)
  • BCH-LMO-SCBD-104814-1 Living Modified Organism DAS-4Ø278-9 - Enlist™ Maize
    Dow AgroSciences GmbH | Resistance to herbicides, Tolerance to 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, Tolerance to aryloxyphenoxypropionate
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Characteristics of the modification process
PV-ZMAP1043; pDAS1740
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  • Cross breeding
Some of these genetic elements may be present as fragments or truncated forms. Please see notes below, where applicable.
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-100366-6 CaMV Enhanced 35S promoter | Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV)
    Promoter
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-100359-7 Hsp70 intron | Zea mays (Maize, Corn, MAIZE)
    Intron
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-100365-6 Chloroplast transit peptide 2 | Arabidopsis thaliana (Thale cress, Mouse-ear cress, Arabidopsis, ARATH)
    Transit signal
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-14979-7 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase gene | Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Agrobacterium)
    Protein coding sequence | Resistance to herbicides (Glyphosate)
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-100269-8 Nopaline Synthase Gene Terminator | Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Agrobacterium)
    Terminator
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-104795-4 RB7 matrix attachment region | Nicotiana tabacum (Tobacco, TOBAC )
    Enhancer
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-100362-7 Ubiquitin gene promoter | Zea mays (Maize, Corn, MAIZE)
    Promoter
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-104812-3 Aryloxyalkanoate dioxygenase gene | Sphingobium herbicidovorans (SPHHE)
    Protein coding sequence | Resistance to herbicides,Tolerance to 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid,Tolerance to aryloxyphenoxypropionate
  • BCH-GENE-SCBD-104813-4 Per5 3' Untranslated Region | Zea mays (Maize, Corn, MAIZE)
    Terminator
DNA insert from MON87427 (MON-87427-7) vector PV-ZMAP1043
Transcription of Agrobacterium tumefaciens 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (epsps) commences from the Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) enhanced 35S promoter and terminates at the A. tumefaciens nopaline synthase (nos) terminator. The transcript contains a Zea mays heat shock protein 70 (hsp70) intron, an Arabidopsis thaliana N-terminal chloroplast transit peptide sequence for chloroplast targeting of the protein and epsps. The CaMV enhanced 35S promoter-hsp70 combination promotes gene expression in female and vegetative tissues, but not in male reproductive tissues (pollen microspores and tapetum).

Note:
- Southern blot analyses indicate that a single copy of the T-DNA was inserted at a single site in the parental maize genome and no plasmid vector backbone sequences were detected to have been integrated. DNA sequencing analyses further indicated that the expected T-DNA sequences were integrated.
-The epsps coding sequence is the codon optimized coding sequence of the aroA gene from Agrobacterium sp. strain CP4 encoding EPSPS.


DNA insert from DAS40278 (DAS-4Ø278-9) vector pDAS1740
The LMO was generated using the Whiskers-mediated transformation method. Sphingobium herbicidovorans aryloxyalkanoate dioxygenase-1 (aad-1) is under the control of Zea mays ubiquitin gene promoter and Z. mays root preferential cationic peroxidase terminator. Elevated levels of transcription are expected to occur due to the constitutive nature of the ubiquitin promoter.

Note:
- The aad-1 coding sequence was optimized for expression in the plant.
- Southern blot analysis indicated that a single complete copy of the transformation cassette was stably integrated into the host genome at a single locus
- No integration of the vector backbone occurred.


Kindly refer to the parental  LMO records for more information.
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LMO characteristics
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  • Feed
  • Food
Additional Information
EPSPS expression is absent or limited in male reproductive tissues, which eliminates or reduces the need for detasseling when MON-87427-7 is used as female parent in hybrid maize seed production.
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