›› 2017, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (11): 1769-1774.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2017.11.01

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A real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR for detection of genetically modified maize line MIR604

CHANG Lijuan, SONG Jun*, ZHANG Fuli, LIU Wenjuan, TANG Chunyan, WANG Dong, YIN Quan   

  1. Analysis and Test Center, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu 610066, China
  • Received:2017-04-07 Online:2017-11-20 Published:2017-12-05

Abstract: Genetically modified maize MIR604 is an insect resistant maize line developed by Syngenta in 2005, which was approved as a raw material for food and feed processing in 2008 in China. In order to accurately detect MIR604 and its processing products, event-specific quantitative PCR detection method was established in this study. The PCR primers and probes were designed specially according to the left boundary sequence of MIR604 and maize genome sequence. Finally, we used the method to detect 6 kinds of non-genetically modified crops, MIR604 and other non-target transgenic crops. The results showed that the other samples apart from MIR604 were not detected. The measured value of the sample(CRM) containing 1% MIR604 was 1.07%, which was close to the real value (1%). The sensitivity experiment results indicated the method could detect only 5 copies of MIR604 molecular fragments. Thus, the event-specific quantitative PCR detection method of genetically modified maize MIR604 has high specificity, accuracy and sensitivity, which can be used for quantitative detection of genetically modified maize MIR604.

Key words: genetically modified maize MIR604, real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR, specificity, accuracy, sensitivity

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