Amflora
The GM starch potato Amflora owned by BASF has been genetically modified to hinder the production of one of the two starches naturally occurring in potatoes so that it contains more then 99% of amylose but very little amylopectine.
Amflora has no approval for cultivation in any country, but in the EU it is currently up to the EU Commission to grant approval for the application, because no qualified majority could be found against it since the application got tabled in 2005. Concerns are raised especially over the fact that Amflora contains an antibiotic resistance as GM marker gene.




