The production and commercialization of of genetically modified (GM) crops is still a relatively new technology that was adopted to introduce beneficial traits (genes) into wild-type plants, to improve the yield and quality of a given crop. Many of the plants that contain these modified genomes overexpress trans-genes conferring disease and herbicide resistance.
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