Using modern biotechnology, Monsanto Company has developed Roundup Ready® canola plants (Brassica napus L.) that are tolerant to glyphosate. The genetically modified canola plant was produced by the introduction of: the cp4 epsps gene derived from the common soil bacterium Agrobacterium strain CP4 which encodes for the production of the CP4 EPSPS enzyme and the gox gene from Ochrobactrum anthropi strain LBAA which encodes for the production of the enzyme glyphosate oxidase (GOX). Both gene products are responsible for conferring tolerance to glyphosate.