PCR for products of agricultural biotechnology

The recent introduction of genetically modified crops has changed both the agriculture and food industries. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) surveys report that 25% of corn, 61% of cotton and 54% of soybean acreage grown in the USA in 2000 were genetically modified.  

Since the commercial introduction of biotech crops, a need has emerged for analytical methods capable of detecting the novel DNA sequences introduced into the plant genome and also methods for detecting the protein products expressed by the 

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