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Indian Cotton farmers opt for double-gene Bt technology
26 July 2010
Indian farmers have graduated from the first-generation ‘single-gene' Bt hybrids to adopting more advanced ‘double-gene' versions of the same technology.
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Syngenta Abandons Goal for 2010 Earnings Growth as Inventories Hurt Prices
23 July 2010
Syngenta AG, the world’s biggest maker of agriculture chemicals, said first-half profit declined 11 percent as burgeoning inventories of pesticides and crop-care products in North America hurt pricing.
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Genetically Modified Foods Could be A Solution to the Effects of Climate Change
23 July 2010
Many solutions have presented themselves, but one stands out in front of the others as a potential fix to the food affected by climate change issue. That solution would be crops that are genetically modified.
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Mapping Out Pathways to Better Soybeans
23 July 2010
Scientists are a step closer to unlocking genetic clues that may lead to packing more protein and oil into soybeans, a move that would boost their value and help U.S. growers compete in international markets.
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Does Consumer Scepticism Cloud the GM Debate?
22 July 2010
The recent proposals by the European Commission regarding national jurisdiction over the cultivation of genetically-modified food have been criticised by both advocates and opponents of GM which, Ben Cooper writes, only serves to underline the intractability of the issue.
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How to get IP protection for new varieties of plants and animals
22 July 2010
A new ‘low-risk’ peanut without the harmful proteins which cause an allergic reaction is great news for millions of sufferers worldwide, and could bring huge financial benefits to the researchers who developed it.
However, seeking patent protection for such inventions may not be a straightforward matter.
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The Adoption and Diffusion of GM Crops In United States: A Real Option Approach.
22 July 2010
The article develops a theoretical model of adoption and diffusion of new GM crops under uncertainty and irreversibility.
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Low-Level Presence of New GM Crops: An Issue on the Rise for Countries Where They Lack Approval
22 July 2010
This study addresses a new issue in the commercialization of GM crops, namely the occurrence of traces—or “low-level presence” (LLP)—of nationally unapproved GM material in crop imports.
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Leading Agricultural Institute Reports Robust Genetic Analysis Results from Fluidigm Biomark™ System
22 July 2010
INRA core facility is now providing a wide range of services on a Fluidigm BioMark™ System for Genetic Analysis to all European researchers.
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Study Finds Media May be Overhyping Benefits of Organic Food, Agriculture
22 July 2010
News accounts of organic agriculture and organic food are more likely to be positive than negative and inaccurately claim organic food is safer
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A Juicy Debate: Hybrids vs. Heirlooms
21 July 2010
Today, greener-than-thou gardeners crusade for heirloom seeds, while unjustly damming hybrids. Increasingly, their anti-science credo has hardened into a Luddite fundamentalism, resulting in confusion among the public between hybrids and genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.
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Tecan Automated Solutions Accelerate Crop Improvement
16 July 2010
University of Kiel scientists use Tecan Freedom EVO® for the development of TILLING® programs for rape seed and sugar beet.
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Toxin-free castor would be major help to industry
15 July 2010
To make castor a commercially viable crop, Scientists are trying to discover a way to genetically modify the plant so that either the gene that produces the toxin is no longer expressed or the toxin is no longer produced.
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Bayer Loses Fifth Straight Trial Over U.S Rice Crops
15 July 2010
Bayer AG lost its fifth straight trial over contaminated U.S. long-grain rice to a Louisiana farmer who claimed the company’s carelessness with its genetically engineered seed caused exports to plunge.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific's MS Technology Selected by Victoria's Agricultural Biosciences Research Center
14 July 2010
Thermo is outfitting a new research center, AgriBio, with a AU$2.5 million of mass spectrometry technology.
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U.S. and Norwegian Scientists Use 454 Sequencing Systems to Identify a Virus Threatening Farmed and Wild Salmon
13 July 2010
Study sheds new light onto the mysterious disease which has cause widespread damage to farmed salmon populations.
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EuropaBio Response to EU Commission’s Nationalisation of Approval for the Cultivation of GM Crops
13 July 2010
The AgBio Industry has been disappointed that today’s proposal does not appear to provide a means of delivering the vision, in that it disables rather than enables the application of beneficial and rigorously tested agricultural biotech products and technologies
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GMOs: Member States to be Given Full Responsibility on Cultivation In Their Territories
13 July 2010
Today (July 13) the Commission proposed to confer to Member States the freedom to allow, restrict or ban the cultivation of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) on part or all of their territory.
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Moratorium on Bt Brinjal
13 July 2010
Scientist C. Kameswara Rao reviews the document released by the Minister of Environment and Forests of the Government of India that declares a moratorium on the commercial release of Bt brinjal (eggplant) in India. Through a scientific review process Dr. Rao points out the bias and lack of scientific reason in the moratorium document, and then provides real evidence that supports the safety and efficacy of Bt brinjal.
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Glowing Crops Could Minimise Pesticide Use
12 July 2010
Farmers may one day be able to target pesticides to only those parts of their fields that are at risk of disease simply by noting which ones are glowing
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Europe’s New Approach to Biotech Food
12 July 2010
On Tuesday, the European Commission will formally propose giving back to national and local governments the freedom to decide whether to grow crops that many Europeans still call Frankenfoods.
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EU Wants to Put GMO Dispute to An End
12 July 2010
The European Commission will today propose an overhaul of the EU's policy for approving genetically modified (GM) crops, which will allow countries more freedom to ban cultivation on their territory while retaining an EU-wide authorisation system.
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Fussy eaters - what's wrong with GM food?
12 July 2010
With the world's food security facing a looming "perfect storm", GM food crops need to be part of the solution, argues Professor Jonathan Jones.
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Genotyping Technologies Help Keep UK Barley Market Competitive
06 July 2010
New AGOUEB project develops a genetic marker technology that allows thousands of genes located in the barley genome, to be characterized in a single experiment.
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Ambitious GM rice project enters next phase
02 July 2010
An international consortium aiming to re-engineer rice to increase yields by 50 per cent is about to move into the second phase of its decades-long project.
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He Says/She Says' Just Doesn't Work for Science
02 July 2010
If I was to single out one main complaint about the media from the scientific community it would be that journalists tend to be too 'balanced' - in other words, they try to give roughly equal time to opposing viewpoints even when the weight of evidence lies strongly on one side.
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Energy Crops Growing On Seawater
02 July 2010
Ceres Salt-Tolerant Trait Could Unlock Millions More Acres of Marginal Cropland
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