when was the first genetically modified plant produced in a laboratory
Genetically modified crops The first genetically modified crop plant was produced in 1982, an antibiotic-resistant tobacco plant.[39] The first field trials occurred in France and the USA in 1986, when tobacco plants were engineered for herbicide resistance.[40] 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).[41]
Percy Lavon Julian Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 â€“ April 19, 1975) was an African American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants.[1] He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine, and a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols such as stigmasterol and sitosterol. His work laid the foundation for the steroid drug industry's production of cortisone, other corticosteroids, and birth control pills.[2][3][4]