Event Name: MON87705
Event Code : MON-877Ø5-6
Trade Name: Vistive Gold™
Crop: Glycine max L. - Soybean
Developer: Monsanto Company (including fully and partly owned companies)
Method of Trait Introduction: Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated plant transformation
GM Traits: Glyphosate herbicide tolerance , Modified oil/fatty acid
Commercial Trait: (Stacked) Herbicide Tolerance (HT) + Modified Product Quality (PQ)
Basic Genetic Modification
| Gene Introduced | Gene Source | Product | Function |
| fatb1-A (sense and antisense segments) | Glycine max | no functional enzyme is produced (production of FATB enzymes or acyl-acyl carrier protein thioesterases is suppressed by RNA interference) | decreases the transport of saturated fatty acids out of the plastid, thereby increasing their availability to desaturation to 18:1 oleic acid; reduces the levels of saturated fatty acids and increases the levels of 18:1 oleic acid |
| fad2-1A (sense and antisense) | Glycine max | no functional enzyme is produced (production of delta-12 desaturase enzyme is suppressed by RNA interference) | reduces desaturation of 18:1 oleic acid to 18:2 linoleic acid; increases the levels of monounsaturated oleic acid and decreases the levels of saturated linoleic acid in the seed |
| cp4 epsps (aroA:CP4) | Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain CP4 | herbicide tolerant form of 5-enolpyruvulshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS) enzyme | decreases binding affinity for glyphosate, thereby conferring increased tolerance to glyphosate herbicide |
Regulatory Approvals: Country, Year and Type of Approval
| Country | Food direct use or processing |
Feed direct use or processing |
Cultivation domestic or non-domestic use |
| Australia | |||
| Canada | |||
| China | |||
| Colombia | |||
| European Union | |||
| Indonesia | |||
| Japan | |||
| Malaysia | |||
| Mexico | |||
| New Zealand | |||
| Nigeria | |||
| Philippines | |||
| Singapore | |||
| South Korea | |||
| Taiwan | |||
| Turkey | |||
| United States | |||
| Vietnam |
* point mouse arrow over year for notes
Last updated: October 17, 2023
Documents and Links
Event Description
Regulatory and Biosafety Information
- 2018 Agricultural Biotechnology Annual - Table of Approved Traits in China
- Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- FAO GM Foods Platform
- Food Standards Australia New Zealand
- Food Standards Australia New Zealand
- GMO - Compass
- Japan Biosafety Clearing House
- Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development - Vietnam
- National Biosafety Management Agency Decision-Nigeria
- Philippines DA - BPI Biosafety
- Singapore Food Agency
- Turkey Biosafety Information Exchange Mechanism
- US Department of Agriculture - APHIS
- US Department of Agriculture - APHIS
- US Food and Drug Administration
- US Food and Drug Administration
- USDA FAS GAIN Report - Indonesia
- USDA-FAS GAIN Report - Colombia 2014
Detection Methods
The GM Approval Database, or GMAD, is one of ISAAA’s unique features that compiles all the available information about biotech/GM crops that have been approved for planting and importation for food and feed, and commercialization. ISAAA sources out the information from publicly available decision documents per country, Biosafety Clearing Houses and peer-reviewed scholarly articles to maintain the credibility of the database. Your contribution can help expand and maintain the GMAD and make useful information more available to researchers, students, and the general public. You can help by donating as little as $10.