Press monitoring
Commingling issue with pharma-crops
25.1.2006 | Press monitoring
A year after issues surrounding genetically engineered rice first hit the Missouri Bootheel, a new report finds the benefits of pharma-crops to producers aren’t as grand as first hoped. The report, authored by Robert Wisner, an economics professor at Iowa State University, says any claims regarding high farmer compensation and booming pharma-crop...
EU urged to invest more in research spending
25.1.2006 | Press monitoring
Europe's leaders will be warned today that the continent's way of ute is under threat because of a failure to invest in research and development and that action to tackle the problem is needed "before it is too late".
Food plant evolution: Genetic control of grass flower architecture
25.1.2006 | Press monitoring
Maize as we know it only became suitable for food after the tiny, hard, inedible ears of teosinte, the ancestor of corn, evolved, with the help of the first Mexican farmers, into the large, luscious cob we now eat. A recent publication in The Plant Cell reports on the cloning of the maize gene ramosa2 and provides evidence that this gene is...
Researchers Improve Drought Tolerance in Plants
25.1.2006 | Press monitoring
Vitamin C provides link to a plant's ability to withstand drought conditions.
Africans Embrace Biotech Future
25.1.2006 | Press monitoring
Homegrown initiatives empowering farmers, improving yields.
Specilalized courses – free admission offer
25.1.2006 | Press monitoring
We would like to inform you about available courses which are lead towards the comprehensive education of postgraduate academics, specialists and students from MZLU Brno, VFU Brno, VÚVeL Brno, ÚSKVBL Brno and other applicants operating in research and development with respect to biomedical institutions.
Risk assessment for insect resistance transgenes
19.1.2006 | Press monitoring
Insect resistance (IR) transgenes offer the advantage to agricultural plants of protection from herbivory. There is concern that should IR transgenes escape from the agricultural setting through pollen or seed flow, the advantage conferred by the transgene will not only allow them to persist, but to 'take over' natural population...
Monsanto’s development shows strong research pipeline
19.1.2006 | Press monitoring
ST. LOUIS - Monsanto Company reported on advances in projects in its product pipeline, an unprecedented level of field testing and the benefits of research collaborations, as part of its first-quarter 2006 financial results reporting yesterday.
Crossing the gene barrier
19.1.2006 | Press monitoring
On the frontiers of biotech, two scientists are mingling the genetic materials of man and beast in new ways. The hoped-for outcome: Radical treatments for some of mankind's most intractable ailments.
"Gene Shuffling" technology to foster new crops
19.1.2006 | Press monitoring
DES MOINES, Iowa - Few technologies have had a greater impact on agriculture over the past decade than the introduction of glyphosate-resistant seed. Now researchers at Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., are developing the next generation of herbicide resistant seed, using groundbreaking technology commonly referred to as "gene...
