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August 09
Dr. Wang Jingling
of Northeast Agricultural University, China awarded the World
Soybean Conference Prize
July 09
Philippines'
National Academy of Science awards biotech plant breeders
June 09
India boosts import
for R&D of transgenic crops
ISAAA publishes
"Biotech Crops in India: The Dawn of a New Era"
Nigeria approves
confined field trial of insect resistant transgenic cowpea
May 09
Indonesian
scientists develop insect resistant soybean
Kenya likely to
commercialize Bt cotton by 2011
New website
dedicated to Jatropha research and crop improvement
April 09
New species of
begomovirus causing tomato leaf curl identified in India
New potato
improvement project launched in Kenya
New public-private
partnership for hybrid rice in India
International team
publishes first SSR based genetic linkage map for cultivated
groundnut
March 09
India
operationalizes event-based approval mechanism
Aluminum
toxicity tolerance breeding in Indonesian soybeans
Leucadendron
molecular marker breeding
Uganda to
start biotech cotton trials
February 09
The quest for
rust-proof wheat
ISAAA Brief 38
on "The Development and Regulation on Bt Brinjal in India
(Eggplant/Aubergine)"
Indian
scientists develop transgenic chickpea resistant to cowpea
aphids
India
desarrolla garbanzos resistentes a áfidos
January 09
Field trials of
GM rape in Sweden
Malaysian
Agricultural Research and Development Institute developing new
varieties of rice that are resistant to flood, drought, and high
temperatures
European
Commission recommend that farmers in 27 EU member states be
allowed to grow two new genetically modified corn varieties
Impact of 9
years of Bt maize cultivation on the distribution of maize
viruses
The development
and regulation of Bt brinjal in India
Bt brinjal,
coming soon to India?
December 08
ISAAA Global
Knowledge Center on Crop Biotechnology releases Pocket K No. 35:
Bt Brinjal in India
Dr B.R. Barwale
releases his autobiography “My Journey with Seeds and the
Development of Indian Seed Industry"
Kenya
Agricultural Research Institute Biotechnology Center launches
insect-proof biosafety greenhouse
November 08
Root-knot
Nematode resistant bell peppers
October 08
Researchers
develop calcium-biofortified lettuce lines
September 08
Bridging the
Knowledge Divide: Experiences in Communicating Crop
Biotechnology
August 08
Biosafety
regulations of Asia-Pacific countries
July 08
Chinese Academy of
Agricultural Sciences and Bayer Group discuss cooperation
strategy on crop research
Comprehensive web
portal on biopesticides
Transgenic rice
resistant to rice blast and sheath blight
ICRISAT announces
second training course on marker assisted breeding
India joins OECD
Seed Certification Schemes program
Workshop on the use
of modern molecular breeding techniques in plant breeding held
in Nairobi, Kenya
Concerns on the release of GM potato cultivar in South Africa
Burkina Faso
becomes third African country to commercialize biotech crops
June 08
India adopts new
set of guidelines for GE plants and foods
Mahyco receives
seed production approval for Bt Brinjal
May 08
University of
Alberta scientists develop nitrogen use efficient rice
India's Genetic
Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) approves release of an
indigenous Bt cotton variety
Regulating
transcription regulators for second generation biotech crops
Researchers from
China's Oil Crops Research Institute develop transgenic oilseed
rape lines resistant to Sclerotinia
April 08
Genomic tools for
breeding Japonica rice
GM nitrogen use
efficient canola will benefit the environment
Tanzania to
develop drought tolerant maize
High salt for
selecting transgenic rice
March 08
Improving GMO
regulation in Indonesia
Scientists develop
transgenic tomatoes with increased resistance to the common
cutworm
Brazil wrestles
with decision on GM corn, seed patenting
Indonesia develops
a genetically engineered rainfed lowland rice cultivar with
drought tolerance
February 08
Economic and environmental benefits and costs of transgenic
crops in India and Bangladesh
North Africa
Biosciences Network (NABNet) to improve barley varieties for
North Africa
January 08
India's
Department of Biotechnology posts new guidelines for GM crops
Transgenic
potatoes with multiple stress tolerance
Heat shock
proteins: role in seed germination
December 07
Jumping genes
to remove markers from GM plants
Toward
sequencing the cotton genome
November 07
Indian Council
of Agricultural Research prepares to address climate change in
agriculture
West Africa
Biosciences Network to improve sorghum breeding in West Africa
DuPont supports
Indonesia's rice and corn industry
Bt maize trials
harvested in Egypt
October 07
Folate fortified rice by metabolic engineering
September 07
Open Forum on
Agricultural Biotechnology opens website on biotech in Africa
GM potatoes
with improved freezing tolerance
Marker free GM
soybean produced by gene excision
Indian farmers
are willing to pay more for Bt eggplant hybrids than for
conventional seed
August 07
New maize and
wheat varieties to fight hunger in Kenya
Bt maize trials
perfom positively in Egypt
Andhra University
study: Economics of Bt cotton vs. traditional cotton varieties
United States
District Court amends May 2007 judgment on Roundup Ready alfalfa
India approves
large scale field trials for Bt brinjal
National Seed
Center to be set up in northern Malaysia
July 07
Colombia:
Resolución No.
001726 por la cual se autorizan siembras comerciales de algodón
con la tecnología conjunta Bollgard II / Roundup Ready Flex®
(15985) X (88913) en el Alto Magdalena y Valle del Cauca
Brazilian government organizations collide over biosafety
June 07
Mexican scientists
present maize genome sequence
Post graduate
distance learning courses on biosafety in plant biotechnology
RNAi-mediated
resistance to Bean golden mosaic virus in genetically engineered
common bean
Indonesia turns to
hybrid varieties for self-sufficiency in rice production
Bt tomato with
CRY6A found to be resistant to root-knot nematodes
Tomates Bt podrían
ser resistentes a nematodes
May 07
Automation of DNA
marker analysis for molecular breeding
Brazil's Biosafety
Commission approves biotech maize
53 new Bt cotton
hybrids commercially approved in India
Indonesia develops
new rice varieties to fight bacterial blight
Supreme Court of
India lifts temporary ban on field trials of GM crops
Rice harvest in
Africa reaches record high, thanks to Nerica
Tamil Nadu
Agricultural University researchers develop new high-yielding,
drought resistant rice variety
April 07
Weed to weed
transfer of glyphosate resistance
Vietnam tackles GM
biosafety regulations
Assessing and
designing strategies to strengthen regional plant breeding and
associated biotechnology capacity in the Caucasus
Nepali farmers
gain more from improved local rice varieties
Chloroplast
transformation for improved biosafety in biotech crops
March 07
Researchers argue
that cisgenic plants are similar to traditionally-bred plants
GM crops: The
first ten years – global socio-economic and environmental
impacts
Indian Council of
Agricultural Research reconfirms higher yield of Bt cotton
Coexistence
between Bt and conventional maize tested in Germany
ICRISAT
reintroduces pigeonpea in China
February 07
Russia approves
two biotech corn varieties
January 07
Global status of
commercialized biotech/GM crops: 2006
Genetic mapping
of finger millet
India issues new
regulations to protect plant varieties and farmers' rights
December 06
Indonesia to
collaborate with China in setting up Hybrid Rice Research Center
New hybrid rice for
Malaysia
Argentina bets on
biotechnology
November 06
Cultivation of
GM potato in the EU - A near possibility
Brazilian gene bank now
sixth in the world
October 06
Progress
over 20 years of sunflower breeding in central Argentina
Transgenic seed with increased
longevity
Duplex screen mesh reduces
maize pollen flow
GM tomato
good for the heart
Università
Politecnica delle Marche offers e-learning master in
biosafety in plant biotechnology
Monsanto Argentina offers free
online biotech courses
First consignment of
Jatropha carcus seeds from India arrives in Namibia, to be used for
biodiesel production
September 06
Pollen-mediated gene
flow in maize in real situations of coexistence
Bt cotton: Brazilian
farmers to use 25% less insecticides
Spain approves eleven
new biotech varieties
August 06
Non certified biotech
soybeans granted extension for use in
2006/2007 season
Andean farmers ready for GM potato, paper finds
July 06
Study explores gene changes
brought by virus in potato
Bt maize in Spain found to
improve production by 7.3%
International effort to
boost rice production
EMBRAPA distributes improved seeds for semi-arid conditions
Peru's National Institute
of Agrarian Research and Extension (INIEA) releases new improved variety
of kiwicha, or amaranth grain
Research studies Bt cotton
effects on various insect pests
University of Illinois
researchers trace soybean aphid resistance trait to a single dominant
gene
India adopts event-based
approval system for GM crops
June 06
Biotech crops that produce
non-GM pollen
ISAAA fact sheet on
approved Bt cotton hybrids in India
A comparison of U.S. and
Chinese sorghum germplasm for early season cold tolerance
Soybean quantitative trait
locus found to back up Bt
May 06
New method for screening
cowpea germplasm for resistance to Cucumber mosaic virus
Increased GM planting for
France and the Czech Republic
Bioassay developed for wheat
crown rot
Changing glucosinates for
tailor-made, disease-resistant crops
Less dogmatic approach to
the regulation of GURTs proposed in Brazil
National Laboratory for
Genomics for Biodiversity to be built in Guanajuato, Mexico
Improved quinoa to help
Andean farmers
Imminent threat of stem rust
pandemic in wheat
April 06
Biotech cotton on fast
lane in Kenya
Africa Maize Stress
Project develops maize varieties tolerant to drought, low soil
fertility, Striga weed, and endemic pests and diseases
Global actors, markets and
rules driving the diffusion of GM crops in developing countries
India introduces new
regulations on GM imports
March 06
Selection of potato lines
resistant to multiple pathogens
Lack of
agreement on tolerance and traceability of GMOs threatens global
trade
Novel approach integrates
fruit and whole plant analysis in tomato
Translational fusion
hybrid Bt genes confer resistance against yellow stem borer in
transgenic elite Vietnamese rice cultivars
Engineering tomato for
resistance to tomato leaf curl disease using viral rep gene sequences
Tamil Nadu Agricultural
University develop rice cultivars with enhanced resistance to sheath
blight
Biotechnololgy law
approved by the Argentine senate
Method developed for
assessing risk of GM cucurbita in Mexico
Food industry feature
article forecasts effects of GM rice in China
February 06
Novel approach to
fatten up castor beans
New model designed to
study soybean
License agreement for
the ABSP II’s fruit and shoot borer-resistant eggplant signed at the
University of the Philippines, Los Baños
January 06
Biotech info centers
launched in Sri Lanka, Pakistan
Transgenic and wild
wheat compared
Outcrossing frequencies
and distribution of transgenic oilseed rape in the nearest neighborhood
New technique developed
to analyze tomato genes
European Commission
orders Greece to lift ban on GM corn seed
Ancient genetic tricks
shape up wheat - Turning back the
evolutionary clock offers better crops for dry regions
December 05
New marker reported for
transforming durum wheat
Improved New Mexico
cotton assessed
Expanding the Pool of
PCR-Based Markers for Oat
Quarterly update on
China's ag-biotech scene now available
Risk assessed among
wheat production systems
The Philippines gains
from hybrid rice commercialization program
Glyphosate inhibits
rust diseases in glyphosate-resistant wheat and soybean
November 05
Plant Physiology paper
documents plant-derived transfer DNA
Research finds aphid
resistance in Chinese soybean cultivars
European initiative to
help develop biotech
Elicitation of defense
related enzymes and resistance by L-methionine in pearl millet against
downy mildew disease caused by Sclerospora graminicola
Employing a composite
gene-flow index to numerically quantify a crop's potential for gene
flow: an Irish perspective
Thailand's largest
agricultural corporation calls for field trials of GM corn for animal
feed
October 05
South Africa authorizes
new Bt cotton variety with stacked genes for insect and herbicide
resistance
Resistance gene for
potato late blight mapped
Barley gives salt
tolerance to GM oat
September 05
High level expression
of maize c-zein protein in transgenic soybean
Development of
transgenic alfalfa plants containing the foot and mouth disease virus
structural polyprotein gene P1 and its utilization as an experimental
immunogen
Changes in Cry1Ac Bt
transgenic cotton in response to two environmental factors: temperature
and insect damage
Why does salinity pose
such a difficult problem for plant breeders?
Bt basmati rice field
tested in Pakistan
KARI and CIMMYT set to
repeat the confined field trial for Bt maize
Brassica gene improves
stress tolerance in Chinese cabbage
Transgenic alfalfa
produces isoflavones
August 05
Workshop report details
sorghum genome research
Challenges of
agro-biotechnologies, intellectual property rights and globalization
The Philippines approves
fourth biotech corn
July 05
African Molecular Marker
Applications Network (AMMANET) discusses use of Marker Assisted
Selection to improve crops
Comparison of tuber
proteomes of potato varieties, landraces, and GM lines
Suppressed gene delays
tomato ripening
Imidazolinone-resistant
maize to be launched in Kenya
June 05
New outlook is good for
plants as fuel
May 05
Study explores Intellectual
Property Rights experiences of developing countries
New hybrid maize fights weed
in Kenya
The Philippines to plant
second biotech maize
April 05
New information package:
'Molecular Breeding and Marker Assisted Selection'
Management of high
yielding canola cultivars
Research proposes new
regulatory requirements for GM
March 05
Vietnam to boost
biotechnology efforts
February 05
Traduction françaises
de publications de l'ISAAA
Ten Asian countries
form Federation of Asian Biotech Associations to promote biotechnology
in the region
Asia holds the key to
the future of GM food, says YaleGlobal
Exploitation of
research tools in plant biotechnology: Access through application of the
experimental use exception
A NAC Domain Protein
Interacts with Tomato leaf curl virus Replication Accessory Protein and
Enhances Viral Replication
Marker assisted
breeding leads to new downy mildew resistant pearl millet hybrid
Beijing Institute of
Genomics releases near complete genome analysis of the indica and
japonica subspecies of Oryza sativa
January 05
New marker found
for nematode resistant wheat
Putting GM
Technologies to Work: Public Research Pipelines in Selected
African Countries
New strategies
proposed for insect resistance management (IRM) and integrated
pest management (IPM) in transgenic crops
New database on
plant biotech projects
India's Patents Act
amended
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