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HEREDITAS ›› 2013, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (12): 1360-1367.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1005.2013.01360

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Unintended effects assessment of genetically modified crops using omics techniques

ZHAO Yan, LI Yan-Yan   

  1. College of Food Science and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, China
  • Received:2013-06-11 Revised:2013-09-20 Online:2013-12-20 Published:2013-11-20

Abstract:

Safety assessment is the essential process for commercial application of genetically modified (GM) crops. Omics techniques can be used to evaluate the safety of GM crops unbiasedly at different biological levels, such as transcripts, proteins and metabolites. In the present review, the researches on unintended effects assessment of GM crops using transcriptomic, proteomic and metablomic techniques in recent ten years have been summarized. The facts show that the environmental factors (growing area and season) and genotype difference play greater roles than gene insertion does for most unintended variations in GM crops.

Key words: genetically modified crops, unintended effects, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics