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Information Systems for Biotechnology (ISB)
April 09

ISB News Report
- Regulating coexistence – Another barrier on the path of genetically engineered crops in Europe?
- A genetic engineering framework for improving Brassica napus

January 09

ISB News Report
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Alternative approach to the genetic modification of alfalfa
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Sensory analysis of calcium-fortified lettuce
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Syngenta seeks nonregulated status for microbial enzyme-producing corn


September 08

ISB News Report
- Low acrylamide French fries and potato chips
- Improved drought stress tolerance in maize
- Minding your Ps and Qs at the PTO
- Using insect-resistant GM crops within IPM programs
- Online bibilography of assessment studies on GE crops

August 08

ISB News Report
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Field-evolved insect resistance to transgenic Bt crops
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Trends in pesticide use on transgenic vs. conventional crops

July 08

ISB News Report
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Ecological research and risk assessment of genetically engineered crops
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Honey bees, Bt crops and the role of meta-analysis in risk assessment
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Ethics of GE plants: towards a better informed and balanced debate

June 08

ISB News Report
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Information Systems for Biotechnology program to end
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Harmonizing the non-target risk assessment for GM crops
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Can a foreign protein improve the amino acid balance of corn?
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Transgenic wheat has increased polyamines
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Prior art: the skeleton in a patent's closet

May 08

ISB News Report
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Genetic engineering approaches to improving nitrogen use efficiency
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Expressing hepatitis B virus surface antigen in rice
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Avoiding insect resistance to Cry toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis

April 08

ISB News Report
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The IPKb vector set: Modular binary plasmids for cereal transformation
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Gene flow among transgenic plants and their wild relatives: implications for risk assessment
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Gene flow in sugar been production fields

March 08

ISB News Report
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Parameters affecting gene flow in oilseed rape
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Growing nonfood products in transgenic plants
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Ds insertion lines valuable for rice breeding

February 08

ISB News Report
- Field evidence: Bt corn and mycotoxin reduction
- Enhancing plant carotenoids via manipulation of sink strength
- Supreme Court consigns the Monsanto–McFarling litigation to rest in peace

January 08

ISB News Report
- Genetically engineered high lysine corn
- Camelina sativa: a potential oilseed crop for biofuels and genetically engineered products


December 07

ISB News Report
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Patent battles on and off the court
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Towards plastid transformation in maize
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Flavonoids for environmental equivalence profiling of GE plants

November 07

ISB News Report
- Acting U.S. Agriculture Secretary announces plan to improve quality compliance of genetically engineered products
- An alternative approach to genetically engineered alfalfa
- Genetic approach to identifying Bt resistance genes in Heliothis virescens
- An unexpected method for controlling corn pollen dispersal
- Non-target effects of Bt crops database available

October 07

ISB News Report
- Maize streak virus resistant transgenic maize: a first for Africa
- How pea phospholipase C functions in salinity stress tolerance
- What controls vitamin C levels in plants?
- Crop-to-crop gene flow studies of fodder maize in the United Kingdom

September 07

ISB News Report
- Cyanobacterial flavodoxin provides multiple stress tolerance
- Cleaning-up crop genomes through intragenic modification
- Cultivar cultivates disaster for soybean patent while supremes throttle patent test
- Conference: Gene flow among transgenic plants and their wild relatives: Implications for Risk Assessment

July 07

ISB News Report
- Selectable marker gene excision from transgenic plants
- Reducing gossypol in cottonseed may improve human nutrition
- Judge concerned that alfalfa may be a little rascal - and other legal news

June 07

ISB News Report
- Gene-deletor: a new tool to address concerns over GE crops
- Genetically engineering folate biofortification in tomato
- Selected highlights from the 2007 BIO International convention

May 07

ISB News Report
- Biosafety of transgenic sorghum - A comment on Visarada and Kishore (2007)
- Environmental safety of transgenic squash: a geostatistical analysis
- Nitrogen use efficient canola showing early success
- Let them eat precaution: How politics is undermining the genetic revolution in agriculture

April 07

ISB News Report
- Identification of escaped transgenic creeping bentgrass in Oregon
- U.S. federal courts disapprove APHIS approval procedures 
- High quality hay market may be most impacted by removal of RR alfalfa
- Generation of marker-free transgenic plants

March 07

ISB News Report
- Improvement of sorghum through transgenic technology
- Feeds from genetically engineered plants — Results and future challenges

February 07

ISB News Report
- Biosafety in a globalized world
- Genetic transformation of cereals mediated by agrobacterium: potential and problems
- Control of fruit flies and the pink bollword using genetically engineered sterile flies and worms 

January 07

ISB News Report
- Risks and benefits of glyphosate-resistant crops
- Evaluation of alerginicity of genetially modified soybean protein extract
- Production of recombinant HIV-1 antigen in transgenic tobacco


December 06

ISB News Report
- Taking aim at peaceful coexistence
- Agbiotech evolution needs a regulatory revolution
- Ecological impacts of genetically engineered crops: ten years of field research and commercial cultivation
- Gene flow from GE to conventional maize in real situations of coexistence

November 06

ISB News Report
- Pearl millet with enhanced resistance to rust and downy mildew
- Nutrigenomics among next-generation applications in ag biotechnology
- New study addresses handling GM/non-GM grain
- Wild rice
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulation of biotechnology-derived food and feed crop plants containing plant-incorporated protectants
- Searching for unintended compositional changes in GE potatoes

October 06

ISB News Report
- RNA interference for wheat functional genomics
- Considerations of adopting Bt seed mixture strategy for cabbabe looper
- US federal court finds an oversight in APHIS' oversight of biopharming
- Canadian company develops safflower as new source of insulin

September 06

ISB News Report
- A new concept to engineer specific transcription of transplastomic genes
- Legislating agbiotech
- Does the ecological risk assessment (ERA) process work for GE crops?
- Mycotoxin reduction in Bt corn: Potential economic, health, and regulatory impacts

August 06

ISB News Report
- High throughput functional genomics of perennial ryegrass
- Gene flow from GE to conventional maize using real-time PCR
- Transgenic plants that make non-transgenic pollen
- Adoption of genetically engineered crops in the U.S.

June 06

ISB News Report
- Most growers aware of, complying with Bt corn standards
- GE tomato resistant to leaf curl disease
- A nanotechnology revolution in agriculture and the food industry

May 06

ISB News Report
- 14th Annual Meeting of BIO: Conference Highlights
- Risk Assessment for Pest Resistance Transgenes
- Transgenic Plants for Spider Silk-like Protein Production
- Root Engineering: A Strategy for Agriculture in Marginal Areas of Cultivation
- Database of the Benefits and Safety of Biotechnology
- Virginia Bioinformatics Institute to Develop Tomato Metabolite Database

April 06

ISB News Report
- Gene flow from transgenic oilseed rape
- Protective plague vaccine produced in tobacco leaves
- Triticum aestivum L (Wheat)—An incredibly complex genetic soup

March 06

ISB News Report
- Development of rice seed based edible vaccine for allergic immunotherapy
- Progress in molecular approaches to drought tolerance in crop plant
- Considerations of cross-fertilization between GM and non-GM maize
- Inspector general fires warning shot at APHIS
- USDA APHIS seeks comments on environmental risk assessments

February 06

ISB News Report
- Biotechnology and comparative risk assessment
- Possible health aspects of horizontal transfer of microbial transgenes present in genetically modified crops
- Mitigating transgene flow from crops

January 06

ISB News Report
- Risk assessment for insect resistance transgenes
- Proteomic profiling and unintended effects in GM crops


December 05

ISB News Report
- Open-source agriculture
- A conceptual framework for the design of environmental post-market monitoring of GM plants
- Approaches to minimize variation of transgene expression in plants
- Dextran-producing transgenic potato tubers

November 05

ISB News Report
- Found-and-lost: transgenic maize in Oaxaca, Mexico
- Employing a composite gene flow index to numerically quantify a crop's potential for gene flow
- Tailoring chemically-induces gene switches for research and agriculture
- Biotechnology as a key driver for sustainable bioenergy production

October 05

ISB News Report
- Horizontal Gene Transfer: Plant vs. Bacterial Genes for Antibiotic Resistance Scenarios—What’s The Difference?
- Engineering Broad-spectrum Disease Resistance
- Application of a Regeneration QTL Gene to Plant Transformation
- Using Transcriptional Analysis to Determine Responses to Phosphate Deprivation

September 05

ISB News Report
- Preserving the effectiveness of Bt crops
- Engineering cytoplasmic male sterility via the chloroplast genome
- Homologous promoter use in genetic modification
- QTL detection and application to plant breeding
- Genetic improvement for tolerance to phosphorus deficiency in rice

August 05

ISB News Report
- Herbicide resistant crops may promote herbicide tolerance in weeds
- Towards 'stacked' traits - Prospects for multi-gene manipulation in plants
- Sustainable and durable insect pest resistance in transgenic crops
- A wide cross-tolerance of transgenic rice containing human CYP2B6 to various classes of herbicides
- Non-agrobacterial species for gene transfer to plants

July 05

ISB News Report
- Using transgenic plants as a source of genetic diversity for breeding greater drought tolerance into wheat
- Advances in rice biotechnology in the new millenium
- Bt10 slips into the stream of commerce
- Spurring growth in dynamic sectors: a paradigm shift in biotech strategy and management
- Developing countries now have well-developed biotechnology programs

June 05

ISB News Report
- Association genetics and its implications for agbiotech research
- Improving stress tolerance through energy homeostatis in plants
- A view on the GM farm scale evaluation
- NIH's fluctuating ethics policy polarizes opinion
- Spurring growth in dynamic sectors: a paradigm shift in biotech strategy and management

May 05

ISB News Report
- Transgenic basmati rice
- Tracking plant transgenes in soil - Where do they go?
- U.S. General Accounting Office sees deficiencies in efforts to guard agriculture from terrorism

April 05

ISB News Report
- Emerging plant biotechnologies: new bugs for old
- To carb or not to carb
- Retaining genetically engineered seed? Consider retaining a lawyer
- Monsanto vs. U.S. farmers

March 05

ISB News Report
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A workshop on agricultural species as biomedical models
- A gene repression system in plants via chromosome remodeling by histone deacetylases
- TILLING: harvesting functional genomics for crop improvement
- Tobacco and rice plants express insulin-like growth factor
- Unwinding after high salinity stress: development of salinity tolerant plant without affecting yield

February 05

ISB News Report
- Release of larvicidal cry proteins in root exudates of transgenic Bt plants
- Frequency of pollen drift in genetically engineered corn
- Assessing the benefits and risks of GE crops: evidence from the insect resistant maize for Africa Project
- Patent challenges to agBiotech technologies in 2004

January 05

ISB News Report
- Long distance pollen-mediated gene flow from creeping bentgrass
- Genetic acclimation for freezing tolerance
- Engineered ribosomal protein limits plant resistance to mycotoxins
- Approval for genetically engineered bentgrass creeps through agency turfs
- Symposium on biosafety of GMOs: highlights


December 04

ISB News Report
- Can Transgenic Crop Technology Benefit Biocontrol?
- Impact of Bt cotton on Bollworm Populations and Egg Parasitism
- Enhancing Stress Tolerance by Regulon Engineering of ABA-Responsive Genes
- All-Native Plant DNA Transformation
- Silk Purse from a Sow’s Ear? Spider Silk Production in Tobacco
- Conference on Plant-made Pharmaceuticals
- The Role of Biotechnology for the Characterisation and Conservation of Crop, Forestry, Animal and Fishery Genetic Resources

November 04

ISB News Report
- Novel Genes for Control and Deterrence of Sucking Insect Pests
- Designer Constructs for T-DNA and Dissociation (Ds) Mediated Insertional Mutagenesis in Plants
- Aberrant mRNA Expression of Maize Rust Resistance Gene in Wheat and Barley
- Biotech Bug Conference Speakers Call for Regulation and Public Involvement
- Continued Losses Put Pressure on Monsanto Product Launch
- The Center for Food Safety Refutes Criticisms of its GM Rice Report

October 04

ISB News Report
- The Development Of The D-amino Acid Selectable Marker System
- T7 RNA Polymerase-Based Overexpression of Foreign Genes in Plants
- HOS9 Mediated Cold Acclimation Outside the CBF Regulon
- Plant-made Pharmaceuticals: Progress and Protests

September 04

ISB News Report
- Improved Nitrogen Assimilation using Transcription Factors
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Transgenic Plants with No Foreign DNA
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A New Strategy for Glyphosate Tolerant Crop Plants
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Determining the Safety of Transgenic Insects

August 04

ISB News Report
- Enhanced Drought Tolerance in Transgenic Rice
- Regulating Plant Genes and Agbiotech Products — International Style
- India Produces Indigenous `GM Cotton'
- Molecular Marker Assisted Selection Document

July 04

ISB News Report
- Gene Flow from Transgenic Bt Corn to Non-Bt Corn Refuges

- Immunomodulation Confers Herbicide Resistance in Plants
- Transgenic Plants Produce Omega-3 and Omega-6 Fatty Acids
- Canadian Supreme Court Wraps Up David vs. Goliath Case: This Time the Giant Wins

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