Touchdown Ready Maize - Maize GA21 (Syngenta)

Applicant: 
Syngenta
Plant: 
Maize
Trait: 
Herbicide tolerance
Event: 
GA21
Approval: 
Food and feed
Herbicide tolerance: 
Glyphosate
Transformation Method: 
Particle bombardement
Inserted gene: 

mepsps

Antibiotic resistance: 
no
Other important parts of the construct: 

rice actin promoter
transit peptide sequence based on transit peptide sequences from maize and sunflower ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase (RuBisCo) genes

Scope of application: 
Food and feed
Date of approval in the EU: 
First approved in 1998; application for food, feed, import, processing approved in 2008.
Some approvals for cultivation worldwide: 
Argentina (1998)
Brazil (2008)
Canada (1998)
USA (1997)
Philippines (2009)
Status of authorisation: 
Authorised in EU
Testbiotech-Stellungnahme zu diesem Event: 
http://www.testbiotech.org/node/606
Updated: 
15 December, 2015
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