<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Field Testing</b></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Transgenic soybean event A5447-127 was field tested in the United States (1996-1997). Field trial reports from these tests demonstrated that the transformed line had no deleterious effects on plants, did not exhibit weedy characteristics, and had no effect on nontarget organisms or the general environment.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Outcrossing</b></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Gene introgression from transformed soybean A5547-127 lines was extremely unlikely as there are no relatives of cultivated soybean in the continental United States and soybean plants are almost completely self-pollinated.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Weediness Potential</b></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">The gene that confers tolerance to the herbicide, glufosinate, will not provide soybean line A5547-127 or its progeny, with any measurable selective advantage over nontransformed soybean plants in their ability to disseminate or to become established in the environment. A5547-127 derived lines did not exhibit any increased weediness characteristics relative to that of traditional varieties or the unmodified parental lines.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Secondary and Non-Target Adverse Effects</b></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">It was concluded that soybean line A5547-127 or its progeny, would not have a significant adverse impact on organisms beneficial to plants or agriculture, nontarget organisms, or on any threatened or endangered species.</p>
