Corn Story

Genetically Modified Corn are grown in 13 countries:

1. USA

2. Canada

3. Argentina

4. South Africa

5. Spain

6. France

7. Germany

8. Portugal

9. Czech Republic

10. Honduras

11. Philippines

12. Egypt

13. Brazil

Spain was the first country in Europe to plant GM corn and now it had extended to many more countries around the world such as in North and South America, Africa, Asia, Czech Republic, Germany and Portugal. US is the country that grows the most GM corn while Spain is the EU country with the largest cultivation area of GM corn. The following traits of corn are herbicide and pesticide tolerance.

The 4 GM processes used to produce GM corn are:

1. Electroporation

2. Biolistics

3. Whiskers-Mediated transformation

4. Bacterial carrier (Agrobacterium).

Whiskers-Mediated transformation and bacterial carrier (Agrobacterium) are the more common methods.

Some examples of GM corn are: Starlink corn, Bt11, Knock Out, NatureGard, Bt-Xtra