For the indigenous and campesinos, as Morales had told them time and again, a
transgenic organism is one that has a gene from another species artificially incorporated into its molecular map through genetic-engineering procedures.
The invention relates to the production of a
transgenic organism, preferably a transgenic plant or a transgenic microorganism, having an increased content of fatty acids, oils or lipids having .DELTA.6 double bonds due to the expression of a .DELTA.6-desaturase from Primulaceae.
Careful examination of the properties of the
transgenic organism is essential before it is studied outside the closed environment of the laboratory.
The virtually total absence on the global market of alternatives to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the feed sector constitutes a weakness for which the European trade has no remedy for the moment.The possible contamination of the Community production chain by an illegal
transgenic organism could have serious consequences on herds.
It will also allow breeders to tackle complex traits they haven't been able to introduce, amplify traits that are only faintly expressed, or suppress undesirable traits, and often without having to reach outside the species for new genes that would then create a
transgenic organism.
He covers the generation of
transgenic organism designed for improved food quality and agricultural advantages, bioremediation for cleaning up environmental contaminants, biosensors and bioindicators for monitoring pollution, the development for alternatives to fossil fuels and petrochemicals, and biotechnology of the marine environment.
Others, however, aren't convinced that ecological safety depends merely on how many foreign genes a
transgenic organism contains, particularly when GM organisms may include genes that didn't evolve together and have never existed in nature.
We can make no meaningful distinction, in ecological terms, between the release into the environment of a
transgenic organism and the release of an exotic organism; hence, the well-known negative environmental effects of releasing exotic plants and animals do not augue well for the future releases of genetically manipulated organisms [37], Actually, the implications may be of greater significance in the case of trans genie fishes, since most fish, not being domesticated like livestock, survive well in nature and have a high reproductive potential.
Weissman recently noted that for millennia viruses have naturally carried foreign DNA across species boundaries in a stable fashion.[5] However, the notion of intentionally creating a
transgenic organism in a laboratory has its origin in the controversial recombinant DNA work of the 1960s.
Of course, a
transgenic organism could be extremely disruptive even without releasing its unusual genes.
For transcription of gene, Nos terminator was used as it is extensively used as a stop signal in
transgenic organisms. Nos terminator was for the first time identified by Lipp et al.