Summary of GE crops deregulated by USDA
Some have not been planted at commercial scale for food or feed production and some discontinued (as of June 2007)
Crop | Varieties | Traits |
---|---|---|
Rice | 2 | All HT |
Tomato | 11 | 10 PQ (fruit ripening) & 1 IR |
Squash | 2 | VR |
Rapeseed | 7 | 4 HT, 2HT/AP (male sterile) & 1 PQ (oil profile altered) |
Tobacco | 1 | PQ (reduced nicotine levels) |
Chicory | 1 | AP (male sterile) |
Flax | 1 | AP (sulfonyl urea tolerant) |
Cotton | 11 | 5 HT, 5 IR, 1HT/IR |
Beet | 3 | All HT |
Papaya | 1 | VR |
Potato | 5 | 2 IR & 3 IR/VR |
Corn | 21 | 8 IR, 4 HT, 5 HT/IR, 2 HT/AP (male sterile) & 1 PQ (lysine levels increased) |
Soybeans | 5 | 4 HT & 1 PQ (oil profile altered) |
- HR: Herbicide Tolerance
- IR: Insect Tolerance
- PQ: Product Quality
- VR: Viral Resistance
- AP: Adventituous Presence
*See Table 2 for information regarding individual crops, year of approval and the companies.