The Transgenic Potato

The Transgenic Potato
A novel transgenic potato has been approved in Europe to be cultured and marketed. This potato is patented by BASF, an important German company that is a leader in antibiotic drug for agriculture and veterinary. Transgenic potato has a resistance versus carboxicillin and kanamycin, two antibiotics largely used to fight culture contamination and disruption.
This genetic modification should improve culture yield without interfering with nutritional and biophysical properties of the vegetable. A further improvement has been reported also in the amount of amid that is increased in percentage in this potato. For this reason, OGM potato should be conveniently used in paper manufacturer and animal feeding. This last application has generated a lot of discussion and anxiety. Indeed, since it would be possible to use bigger amount of antibiotics to protect potato culture, animals should be eat more antibiotics and lastly also human that eat meat from animals could ingest more drugs. For this reason, attentive and serious control must be done, in order to preserve human health from future problems related to antibiotic intolerance, resistance or toxicity. In summary, biotechnology could proficiently help to improve culture conditions, but security measures must be kept in mind.