Question: What was the first genetically modified crop plant??
Answer:
What was the first genetically modified crop plant?
The term genetic engineering is applied to genetic modifications made using biotechnology. The first plant produced in that way came in 1982, an antibiotic-resistant tobacco plant.[38] The first field trials occurred in France and the USA in 1986, using tobacco plants engineered for herbicide resistance.[39] In 1987, Plant Genetic Systems (Ghent, Belgium), founded by Marc Van Montagu and Jeff Schell, was the first company to genetically engineer insect-resistant (tobacco) plants by incorporating genes that produced insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt).[40]
antibiotic-resistant tobacco plant