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A new
mutagenesis technique
During the Genomics in Business
2009 conference in Amsterdam,
KeyGene announced an innovative
method to achieve rapid and more
precise plant breeding. The
method enables the introduction
of small desired alterations in
the genetic material of plants,
using a natural process. This
process can be compared with
natural mutagenesis, with the
difference that a single change
is induced at one specific
location on the DNA.
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Davor Pisk, Chief Operating
Officer, Syngenta Seeds, speaks
at The World Agri Invest
Congress 2009
Robert
Berendes, Head of Global
Business Development at
Syngenta, speaks at Agri Vision
2009
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"Hitched to everything else in
the universe" - Dependency in
foods, genebanks, crop
varieties, trand and food
prices, and the environment
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Petersberger Thesen:
Pflanzenforschung und
Pflanzenzüchtung ist
gesellschaftliche Verantwortung
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Continued support of public seed
research is essential
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The Seeds
of Development Programme
Observations on the
current programme
Malcolm Blackie, bT Associates
In July 2006, SeedQuest published
Strengthening
Africa’s private seed sector to serve smallholder farmers,
an article by
Dr. Edward Mabaya,
Cornell University, coordinator of two SME
development initiatives working in Sub-Saharan Africa: the
Seeds of
Development Program (SODP) and the Making Markets
Matter workshop.
We follow up
3 years later with an article by Malcolm
Blackie, bT Associates, who recently conducted an external
review of the Seeds of
Development Program.
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