USDA checks for promoters and transgenes in the final product (after selfing, backcrossing, etc.) before releasing it to the market. Do they check for every backbone in the vector? Do they check more than the standardized protocols for some known genes and fragments? Given that Agrobacterium-mediated transformation is random integration, is there a possibility that USDA can still miss some of the segments in their standardized protocol?

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