Detection of npt II Activity in Transgenic Apple Fruits

Author

Zhou, Rui Jin ; Fang, Qiang ; Shi, Xiao Xin ; Du, Guo Qiang

Author_Institution

Coll. of Landscape Archit., Henan Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Xinxiang, China

fYear

2010

fDate

18-20 June 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

It receives much concern whether the transgenic foods, especially the antibiotic marker genes, are safe for human health all the time. In this paper, the transgenic Malus domestica Borkh. cv. Royal Gala carrying exogenous neomycin phosphotransferase (nptII) was used to study the npt II gene activity in transgenic apple fruits. The result showed that the npt II activities were detected in the most transgenic apple fruits, but the activities varied from the fruits with strong or weak responding signals and no activity of 71.43%, 21.43%, and 7.14%, respectively.

Keywords

agricultural products; biochemistry; biological techniques; biotechnology; cellular biophysics; enzymes; food products; genetic engineering; genetics; genomics; molecular biophysics; antibiotic marker genes; exogenous neomycin phosphotransferase; human health; npt II gene activity; transgenic Malus domestica Borkh. cv. Royal Gala; transgenic apple fruits; transgenic foods; Antibiotics; Capacitive sensors; Food technology; Gene expression; Humans; Immune system; Microorganisms; Production; Safety; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE), 2010 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

ISSN

2151-7614

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4712-1

Electronic_ISBN

2151-7614

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2010.5515299

Filename

5515299