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Commercial GM crops

Only two GM traits have been commercialised on a large scale: herbicide-tolerant (HT) and pest resistant crops (Bt crops). These traits have been introduced into major commodity crops including soy, maize, sugar beet and oil seed rape (canola). They are grown mainly in North and South America and mostly used in animal feed and biofuels. Because GM foods are not segregated and labelled in the US, GM soy, maize, sugar and oil also ends up in processed foods sold in supermarkets. Pest-resistant GM cotton (Bt cotton) is widely grown in India and China as well as the US.

GM crops containg stacked traits which combine insect-resistance and herbicide tolerance (sometimes to more than one herbicide) are also being grown in the US and many applications to grow these crops are awaiting approval from European regulators.

Resources

• Press articles
  • FoodTank: Mexico Calls U.S. Bluff on Science of GMO Corn Restrictions (March 2022)

  • Investigate MidWest: Bayer sues four Missouri farmers (29th March 2023)

  • ThinkProgress: Farmers Told To Buy Insurance If They Don't Want To Get Sued By Corporations (21st November 2012)

  • Nature News: Monsanto may lose GM soya royalties throughout Brazil (15th June 2012)

• External links
  • CBAN: Where in the world are GM crops and foods? (March 2015)

  • Union of Concerned Scientists: Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops (2009)

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Topics

• Herbicide tolerant crops

  The biggest-selling GM crops have been engineered to survive applications of GM companies' own-brand weedkillers (herbicides).

• Pest resistant crops

  Pest resistant crops (Bt crops) produce toxins which kill insect pests. Bt maize is grown largely for use in animal feed and biofuels in North and South America. Bt cotton is also grown in India and China.

• Stacked traits
• Virus-resistant papaya

  GM papaya fruit grown in Hawaii

• Amflora potato

  GM potato for starch production, grown in Germany and Sweden. Now withdrawn.

• GM carnation

  A blue GM carnation, grown in Australia.

• Amylase corn

  GM maize (corn) developed for use in biofuels, grown in the USA.