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INIA Chile
Tierra adentro No. 79
Mayo-Junio 2008

44 años al servicio de la agricultural nacional

Transgénia y agricultura orgánica: ¿Pueden coexistir?

Una mirada hacia la empresa hortícola de Chile

Arveja proteaginosa y sus posibilidades en alimentación animal

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A Tale of Two Futures for Seed Biotechnology
By Dr. Kent Bradford
Academic Director
Seed Biotechnology Center
University of California, Davis

Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities opens with the famous line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The same can be said of seed biotechnology, depending upon your perspective.

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“No es posible imaginar el progreso en medicina y agricultura sin la biotecnología”

Paul Christou
Investigador en Mejora Genética
Universidad de Lleida, España

El sida es una enfermedad que actualmente afecta a unos 33 millones de personas en todo el mundo. Cada día, cerca de 5.700 fallecen a causa de esta enfermedad y al menos otras 7.000 se infectan con el virus, la mayoría de ellas en países subdesarrollados o en vías de desarrollo.

Paul Christou es investigador en mejora genética en la Universidad de Lleida y uno de los científicos que ha creado un tipo de semilla de maíz modificado genéticamente que produce una molécula capaz de evitar el contagio del sida, y que sin duda revolucionaría el mundo de la medicina.

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Agriculture in the 21st century
Results of the GMO Compass snapshot poll

According to the position of many experts, agriculture across the world is facing a trend reversal: Global food stocks are nearly used up, climate change can lead to significant yield losses in certain regions and the prices for staple foods are rising worldwide. In addition, competition between the cultivation of renewable raw materials (fuel, synthetics, etc.) and the production of foods keeps increasing.
 


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GIANT VIEWS

 

Craig Lindholm
Marketing Manager of Seed Treatments
BASF U.S. Crop Protection Division

Lamar Buckelew
Global Stewardship Manager
Bayer CropScience


Ko Remijnse
Managing Director of Global Marketing & Sales
Nunhems B.V.

Ron Wulfkuhle
CEO
GreenLeaf Genetics


Tom Stearns
Owner
High Mowing Organic Seeds


Tom Strachota
Chief Executive Officer
Dairyland Seed

Dean Oestreich
Chairman, Pioneer Hi-Bred
Vice President, DuPont

Clint Pilcher
Corn Insect Traits Technology Development Manager
Monsanto Company

John Becherer
CEO
United Soybean Board

Ronnie Stapp
Executive Vice President
of Seed Operations
Pennington Seed, Inc.

Ben Kaehler
Traits and Germplasm Licensing Leader
Dow AgroSciences

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