you got nightshade in my soy!

Now that my presentation has gone well, I'm reasonably caught up on work, and I've had a little time to relax, we return to our regularly scheduled science geeking. In particular, a recent post on Nightshade Free precipitated a possibly excessive amount of research into the issue of Roundup-Ready soybeans. Namely, does Monsanto's patented glyphosate-resistant soybean strain really contain petunia DNA, and could that be a problem for people who react to nightshades?

( Molecular biology ho! )

On the basis of my research, I recommend not worrying at all about nightshade in your soy. Plants have tens of thousands of other proteins present in much higher amounts that are far more likely to be what you're sensitive to, and the tiny snippet of petunia DNA in that genetic construct is no sooner translated into amino acids than it gets disassembled again.

( More molecular biology! )