Seed Today - Q3 2008 - (Page 58) Horizontal Gene Transfer Recent study concludes there is little chance of antibiotic resistance transfer The European Food have become resistant to Safety Authority (EFSA) has treatment. given GM plants with certain antibiotic resistance Next to Zero Chance markers limited authorizaEstimates from a varition for release into the enety of laboratory experivironment. ments place the probabilIn 2004, an EFSA study ity of horizontal gene group recommended that a transfer anywhere from Bacteria culture dish general ban on the use of 1:10,000,000,000,000 to antibiotic resistance marker genes is not 1:1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. justified. A report in June by scientists from Critics of GM plant technology, howFrance and Switzerland provides conever, continue to object to the use of firmation that GM crops are not a source antibiotic resistant molecular markers. of unintended horizontal gene transfer. They fear that bacteria in non-host “The risk should be regarded as alplants may develop antibiotic resismost zero,” says Pascal Simonet of the tance as the result of unintended horiEcole Centrale de Lyon. zontal gene transfer. Eventually, they Even if horizontal gene transfer is say, it is possible for humans to bepossible in principle, the researchcome infected with these bacteria that ers believe that it is of no significance to microbial communities in the soil. There is even less threat to humans. They report that the cultivation of transgenic plants for more than 10 years in one field has had no measurable effect on the occurrence of antibiotic-resistances. This is largely due to the fact that the genes are already commonly found in the soil. Horizontal gene transfer from transgenic plant DNA to bacteria is so rare that it could not contribute to a further increase in the widespread antibiotic resistance which already occurs naturally in bacteria. Between 0.4 and eight percent of the bacteria in soil samples the researchers collected from non-GM cropland were naturally antibiotic resistant. Response No. 581 Response No. 582 58 Third Quarter 2008 http://www.heritageturffarms.com http://www.heritageturffarms.com http://www.spirittransportation.com
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