Why are environmental immunochemical methods important?
A large proportion of major crops currently grown in the US have been enhanced with one or more traits through the use of modern biotechnology methods. These crops are the result of the incorporation of specific agronomic, crop protection or quality traits into plants grown for agricultural production. These modified or transgenic plants differ from conventional plants in that they contain additional genes which produce a corresponding number of new proteins, the presence of which give the modified plants the desired beneficial traits. A gene for a specific trait is introduced by insertion of the gene DNA fragment into the plant genome via recombinant DNA methods. The introduced DNA fragment produces a protein which is expressed in the plant tissues. A particular introduced protein may produce a desired agronomic trait in the plant, or it may confer insect, disease or herbicide resistance to the plant, thus improving crop production. An introduced protein may also produce a quality tra
