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| Since their commercial introduction two decades ago, genetically engineered (GE) crops have been cultivated globally and continue to grow in popularity. Immunoassays have played an important role in various areas across the AgBiotech industry. This technology is widely used by AgBiotech companies in trait discovery, product development, seed production, and environmental risk assessment. Other stakeholders from the food and feed supply chains, such as commodity, food and feed companies, as well as third-party diagnostic testing companies rely on immunoassays for a number of purposes. The primary use of immunoassays is to verify the presence or absence of GE material in a product, or to quantify the amount of GE material present in a product. In addition, this technology has been developed further to meet the need of higher throughput for handling large quantity of samples, and the need of fast, robust and simple process for field testing. Two most commonly used formats are: lateral flow strips (LFS) and plate-based Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assays (ELISA). The main applications of both formats in agricultural biotechnology will be discussed and the benefits and drawbacks will be discussed in detail as well. |
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Immunochemistry
8:40 AM-12:05 PM, Sunday, August 19, 2007 BCEC -- 259A, Oral
Division of Agrochemicals |