AgbioInvestor’s free-to-access service AgbioInvestor GM Monitor has identified the following GM trait approvals up to February 2025. Expanded details on these recently approved traits, as well as for approvals dating back as far as 1992, can be found on AgbioInvestor’s GM Monitor website.

Corteva Agriscience’s stacked trait maize DP910521 has received import approval in South Korea for use in food. The DP910521 genetic event produces the insecticidal protein Cry1B.34, which provides resistance to select lepidopteran insect pests, and pat, which confers tolerance to the herbicide glufosinate. The event was inserted through microparticle bombardment of plant cells or tissue, also known as the biolistic transformation, a common method by which transgenes are delivered into plant cells or tissues. This was done by coating heavy metal particles, commonly gold or tungsten, with the exogenous material that is to be introduced to the plant before firing the micro-projectiles into the plant cells to introduce and integrate the desired genetic information into the plant. Successful genetic transformation was then screened for using the marker genes PMI (phosphomannose isomerase) to demonstrate the proper insertion of the DNA transcript.

DP910521 maize received cultivation approval in Canada and Brazil in 2023, followed by Argentina in 2024. Import approval for use in food/feed use was granted in the USA, Canada and Brazil in 2023. Import approval for food only uses were issued in Australia & New Zealand during 2023 and in Taiwan in 2024. Import approval for feed only uses were granted in Japan and Colombia in 2024.

DP910521 has also received a positive scientific opinion from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for import, processing and food and feed uses (see AgbioNews Aug 2, 2024), although it has not yet received any approvals from the EU.