[Market-farming] corn gluten

Bill Shoemaker wshoemak at inil.com
Thu Jan 31 14:35:05 EST 2008


Technically, it isn't "proportions" that make GMO corn different. It's 
usually only one gene that codes for something non-GMO corn would not 
produce. So the GMO corn is proportionally the same as non-GMO corn. What 
distinguishes it is the presence of a novel substance or the lack of a 
substance expected in non-GMO corn. In the case of Bt corn, which is 
genetically engineered to be resistant to European corn borer and other moth 
larvae, the Bt gene produces a toxin that would not be found in non-GMO 
corn. The toxin poisons the larvae of  lepidopteran insects which feed on 
the corn.

Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture Research Center
www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html



> Isn't GMO corn chemically the same as any other corn, only with slightly
> different proportions?  I would think so.  After all, if grown 
> organically,
> it's made with the same soil nutrients and sunshine as any other organic
> corn, its just had its DNA programmed to arrange those nutrients
> differently. 




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