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October 24, 2011
  • Portuguese farmers call for more innovative agricultural technologies
  • Progress towards developing plants that accomodate climate change
  • Why Kenya now looks up to China
  • Smarter toxins help crops fight resistant pests
  • Weeds threaten cotton crop in Maha Cos work on resistant seeds
  • Assessing the Potential Impact of GE Crop Management
  • Compositional Variability in Conventional and Glyphosate-Tolerant Soybean
  • Welsh farmers 'fight for survival against environment fixated minister'
  • Biotech Corn Planting in Portugal May Jump 59%
  • State Department: Biotech labeling would scare consumers
  • Chinese Order for U.S. Corn
  • Govt to release transgenic seeds in 2012
  • GM cotton genes found in wild species
  • No patents for some stem cell techniques
  • Canadian scientists map the cannabis genome

October 7, 2011
  • EcoCerta Biotecnologia Licenses Genetic ID's GMO Testing Technology
  • Will EU court ruling on GM-tainted honey affect Canadian producers?
  • Novelist Opens Fire On FDA, USDA and GMO Companies
  • Pioneer plans to raise corn, soy seed prices
  • Sursem SA signs agreement with Monsanto
  • World's First 'Blue' Rose Soon Available in US
  • Approval of Brazilian Transgenic Beans
  • New film: WWF beds with Monsanto
  • Philippine Biotechnology Situation and Outlook
  • U.K. Gives Consent for Trial of GM Wheat
  • How would Swiss consumers decide if they had freedom of choice?
  • GM Food Solutions at Risk from Lobbyists
  • Evogene and Monsanto mark completion of third year
  • Islam supports modern technology  -  experts
  • One hundred important questions facing plant science research
  • Risk of Regulation or Regulation of Risk?
  • Jumping gene enabled key step in corn domestication
  • Mendel Trait Technology Advances Towards Commercial Launch
  • Francophone West Africa - Agricultural biotechnology
  • GM potato blessing for small farmers
  • Concerns mount over biotech advisory panel
  • Scientists demand GMO for the environment
  • Punjab gets Borlaug institute of agriculture
  • Insertion of transgene into a specific desired location
  • Armenia intends to introduce control mechanisms over the usage of GMO
  • Monsanto Profit Forecast Beats Estimates

September 13, 2011
  • Compensating Producers for Unintended Biotech Traits
  • Fermentation with Transgenic Yeast Modifies Mycotoxins
  • Holland: KeyGene and Wageningen UR launch new R&D facility

September 12, 2011
  • Spain - Agricultural biotechnology, annual report
  • How Can High-Quality Seed Be Reproduced?
  • Salmonella uses similar mechanism to infect plants and humans
  • Organic farm cleared for large solar project
  • Foreign company speaks on GM corn field trials
  • Maize said capable of adapting to climate
  • Monsanto hopes India will clear Bt corn in 3 years 
  • Using biotech to increase crop yield, fight food inflation
  • Chromatin Reaches First Milestone in Research Collaboration With Dow AgroSciences
  • Alaska delegation helps keep engineered salmon off market
  • Extension expert says 100-bushel soybeans possible

September 8, 2011
  • High iron and zinc rice
  • Monsanto says corn rootworm resistance not spreading
  • Honey verdict gums up GM rules
  • Researchers uncover genetic link to cattle diseases
  • EU court says French GM maize ban was illegal
  • Borer moth prompts record sowing of biotech corn
  • $11.9M funding for Virus Resistant Cassava
  • India: PM may reconsider Bt brinjal
  • Traditional Maize Can Cope with Climate Change

September 7, 2011
  • Golden Rice's Feeding Trial Slated
  • Lawmakers, farmers, consumers question safety of Golden Rice
  • EU court backs German beekeepers in GM pollen case
  • Cert ID says sustainable soy standards report 'inaccurate and biased'
  • Uganda: Scientists join lobby for biotechnology law
  • Taiwan: Government plant patent plan is facing opposition

September 2, 2011
  • Cargill bars Syngenta corn variety at US wet mills
  • ADM says only accepts corn approved for use in EU
  • Dow AgroSciences unveils herbicide component in its Enlist Weed Control System
  • Manipulating plants' circadian clock

September 1, 2011
  • Joint Statement by National Grain and Feed Association
  • India: Use of GM Seeds
  • Pioneer and ADM announce 2012 Plenish high oleic soy contract
  • Researchers identify how insects resist Bt
  • Chile - Agricultural biotechnology, annual report
  • Brazil: Mozambique Cedes Land to Brazilian Agribusiness
  • Unfounded pesticide concerns adversely affect health
  • Monsanto seeks OK for low-fat soybean
  • Bayer Gets Green Light For GMO Soy Seed

August 26, 2011
  • EnviroLogix's new QuickStix Kit for Vip3A
  • Severe Root Damage to Bt Corn Confirmed
  • Bayer CropScience Complaint Filed Against Dow AgroSciences
  • Nigeria: VC canvasses more biotech research
  • Polish minister calls for Europe-wide ban on GM crops
  • Africa expected to become growth powerhouse in 2020
  • Climate change leads to biodiversity loss

August 25, 2011
  • Tests underway for new HIV drug farmed from GM tobacco plants
  • Monsanto Faces Losing Roundup-Ready Soy Market
  • Kenya: Biosafety boss sacked in import row
  • Kenya: NGOs Plot to Block New GMO Laws
  • Specialized mosquitoes may fight tropical disease

August 24, 2011
  • Reliv and Soy Labs form joint R&D partnership
  • Food giants clash over access to China
  • Kenya: Labelling Guidelines to Be Developed for GMOs
  • Poland: President vetoes genetically modified seeds law
  • Artificial life forms could bring life to Mars

August 23, 2011
  • Approval for Liberty Link Soybeans in Argentina
  • Federoff: Engineering food for all
  • First Three-Gene, Herbicide-Tolerant Soybean
  • Syngenta Sues Bunge for Refusal to Accept GM Corn
  • Bunge Responds to Syngenta Suit
  • Cut Greenpeace concessions: Joyce
  • Ancestors began cooking 1.9 million years ago
  • Three Waves of Evolutionary Innovation

August 19, 2011
  • Vietnam: Genetically modified maize successfully tested
  • France - Agricultural biotechnology, annual report
  • Russian Federation - Agricultural biotechnology, annual report
  • Argentina - Agricultural biotechnology, annual report
  • University of Missouri completes first drought simulator
  • George Soros is selling gold and buying farmland

August 18, 2011
  • South Africa - Agricultural biotechnology, annual report
  • Poland: President delays signing GMO seed law
  • Boulder County advisory group leans toward GMO crops
  • Medicinal Genomics Sequences the Cannabis Genome

August 17, 2011
  • India's biodiversity agency to sue Monsanto
  • Govt allows study of several GM food crops
  • Database to select promoters for plant transgenesis
  • Kenya: GM maize imports are now legal
  • Brazil - Agricultural biotechnology, annual report
  • Jamaica: Big support for GM foods
  • Salk Institute named global leader in plant biology
  • Rapid evolution within single crop-growing season
  • SemBioSys Genetics awarded key U.S. patent
  • DuPont, lab in Mexico partner for corn project
  • Battleground sizzles over GM crops
  • US farming groups hit back at activists
  • Is Evolution Predictable?
  • A drug that could kill most viruses?

August 12, 2011
  • Two summonsed in wake of GM wheat raid
  • Namibia to Implement Biosafety Regulations

August 11, 2011
  • Phillippines: Bt cotton expected in 2012
  • 'Few technologies could survive' flawed review process
  • California: GMO labeling initiative
  • India: Chhattisgarh says no to GM crop trials
  • Australia: GM legal battle looms
  • US: Lawsuit To Uproot GE Crops

August 10, 2011
  • EFSA launches consultation on food derived from GM animals
  • Creve Coeur To Be U.S. Home For Biotech Firm From India
  • GM grain contamination fears in WA
  • China: GM crops still wait for harvest
  • Growers, scientists up against spate of threats
  • State secretary meets with Monsanto reps over GMO
  • Australia - 49,000 tons of canola unsold

August 9, 2011
  • New Tools to Protect Soybeans From Pests
  • Farmers seek speedy clearance for Biotech Regulatory Bill
  • Building Blocks of DNA Found in Meteorites from Space
  • Purdue Scientist Urges Government Ruling on Genetically Engineered Salmon

August 8, 2011
  • Please support the commercial release of GM bean
  • Monsanto eyes Brazil, China for strong growth
  • Bt variety eyed to save local cotton industry
  • Why plant 'clones' aren't identical
  • Apoptosis-related genes confer resistance to Fusarium wilt
  • Farmer suicides reduced by biotech
  • Churches at odds over GMOs in Kenya
  • Kenya: Officials stop offloading of alleged GMO maize
  • Baxters 'violated' by anti-GM film-maker
  • GPA concerned by GM case 'prejudice'
  • Fined Greenpeace activists claim abuse 
  • Safe Food fights GM

August 5, 2011
  • Monsanto launching its first biotech sweet corn
  • Paraguay aims to grow more cotton using GMO seeds
  • Belarus plans to launch GMO site in 2012
  • China's Counterfeiters Get Seedy
  • Vietnam to grow genetically modified corn

August 4, 2011
  • Overseas firms gain edge as U.S. biotech approvals lag
  • Brazil Sets New Record in the Adoption of Transgenic Crops
  • Syngenta receives Japanese and Mexican import approvals
  • GM Crops are Essential Innovation in Japanese Agriculture
  • Seed Patent Expiration to Be a Major Issue
  • UK: Shoppers back GM
  • USDA allows extra specialty sugar imports
  • Dietary Exposure to Pesticide Residues
  • Emerging Salmonella strain sparks concern

August 3, 2011
  • US EPA Approves New Syngenta Corn Trait Stack
  • European Food Safety Authority launches updated guidance
  • Researchers Discover Method to Decrease Harmful Cyanogens
  • Bishops in Kenya take new stance on genetically modified foods
  • GM wheat not rejected: NAWG
  • Trade groups tell Congress: Stay out of FDA salmon probe
  • GMObelus Quiz Launched

August 1, 2011
  • Dow AgroSciences acquires a Pacific Northwest wheat breeding company
  • US Sets Record for "Exceptional Drought" in July
  • Argentina Plans to Begin Exporting Corn to China With 2011-2012 Crop
  • Dissatisfied With RSPO, Malaysia Begins Planning Its Own Palm Oil Certification Scheme
  • Nigeria: FG Promises to Tackle Food Shortage Through Biotech
  • Elsevier Introduces Genome Viewer
  • Farmer suicides reduced by biotech
  • Second confined GM field tests approved at Miyazaki University
  • Kenya: Two have died of hunger, Mutua told
  • Sea Shepherd vessel detained in Shetland Islands
  • European subsidies starving Africa: Kevin Rudd
  • Ongoing global biodiversity loss
  • Whole Foods employee's rant goes viral
  • Tree-huggery becomes thuggery
  • When drought becomes famine: the role of politics

July 29, 2011
  • Stability in the Composition Equivalence of Grain

July 28, 2011
  • Comment period for draft environmental assessment for drought tolerant corn
  • 1st large-scale map of a plant's protein network
  • India: GM forum flays mandatory prior nod of states
  • UW eco-arson suspect pleads not guilty
  • Australian farmer sues neighbours over GM crops
  • Hungary further constrains GMO cropping

July 27, 2011
  • EFSA guidance on the submission of applications for authorisation of genetically modified food and feed
  • Gene-modified soybean seed to boost SA crops
  • Reproductive performance of transgenic Atlantic salmon

July 26, 2011
  • Deciphering evolution of life on land
  • Habitat loss imperils monarch butterflies
  • Hungary to penalize planting, distribution of GMO seeds
  • FAO starts livestock biodiversity management fund

July 25, 2011
  • Monoclonal antibody produced from GM plants
  • Farmers covet control as Wheat Board monopoly slated to end
  • Monsanto appeals against destruction of corn
  • Traditional Knowledge, Folkore Treaty Texts Still Advancing At WIPO
  • WWF accused of failing to regulate timber scheme

July 22, 2011
  • Police raid Greenpeace over crops
  • GM wheat trials to 'forge ahead'
  • Hungarian officials find more banned GMO corn seed

July 21, 2011
  • Greenpeace Australia raided over GM wheat action
  • Papaya vandals must be stopped
  • Efficient Generation of Transgenic Pigs
  • USDA economist: Hard to pin crop number on climate
  • Kenya: State Plans Drive to Popularise GMOs
  • Mahyco bets on genetically modified okra & rice
  • Philippines: Bt Talong field trial
  • Scientists in Norwich voice frustration
  • Video: NRB Airs 'Resisting the Green Dragon'

July 20, 2011
  • Anti-HIV drug made by GM plants
  • Column: Future of Bt brinjal
  • COA equips Taiwan agriculture with biotech capability
  • DENR exec pushes for GMOs in food production
  • Impact of Bt cotton on pesticide poisoning
  • FBR Threatens to Expel Greenpeace
  • Farcical hit on science
  • A damaging ploy by GM denialists
  • Greenpeace goes too far
  • Greenpeace? More like Green war
  • Greenpeace banned from posting on Twitter
  • Biofuel demand in US driving higher food prices

July 19, 2011
  • Ghana: Biotech lab for agric research to be operational in November
  • Destroyed crops posed no risk
  • SAFF condemns Greens' crop trial destruction
  • Kenya: Publishing Rules On GMO Imports Starts
  • Kenya: MPs Plan to Block GMO Maize Imports

July 18, 2011
  • Monsanto seeks to suspend forced destruction of maize
  • Food companies' supply chains "at risk" from new GMO feed rules
  • Kenya Health Ministry emphasises on GM food labelling
  • Genetic research confirms that non-Africans are part Neanderthal

July 15, 2011
  • Indonesia: Protesters Protest Greenpeace
  • Australia: Greenpeace blasted for GM vandalism
  • The sad, sad demise of Greenpeace
  • Video: Vandana Shiva on Marie Mason
  • USDA seeks comment on assessment for GM soybean
  • Kenya: Cabinet clears GM maize imports
  • Hungary to continue battle against GM seeds
  • Peru: Detecting adventitious transgenic events in maize

July 14, 2011
  • India: Pleased with the exit of Jairam Ramesh
  • Peru wavers on ten-year halt to GM imports
  • Video: Kenya: GMO confusion
  • Kenya: House team warns of school food riots
  • Biologists discover protein complex that regulates plant growth
  • Climate adaptation of rice
  • Major breakthrough on how viruses infect plants
  • Weed scientists report new herbicide resistant weed populations
  • UK: Organic food ad banned by ASA
  • Greenpeace attacks Canberra GM wheat crop
  • Video: Protesters destroy GM wheat crop
  • Germany: "Brutal, targeted attack"

July 12, 2011
  • Simplot Company Announces New Technology
  • Breeding Procedure Speeds Up Winter Wheat Variety Development
  • Cabinet Reshuffle: India's Environment After Jairam Ramesh
  • A Call to Counter 'Fringe' Food Activist Groups
  • Outdoor field trials destroyed by 'brutal' activists in Germany
  • Africa is not a place for GMOs - Maina

July 11, 2011
  • Syngenta's Growing Pains
  • Video: DuPont Non-GMO-Soy
  • Minnesota Grower Talks Biotech Wheat
  • Ramesh re-writes rules of GM game
  • Hormone plays key role in determining the size and shape of plants
  • Production of Human Protein in Algae
  • Small RNA component of the transcriptome from grain stems
  • One potato genome unravelled, three to go
  • GMO maize ploughed under throughout Hungary
  • Aussie bounty on wild camels
  • Video: 'Silence of the Panda'

July 8, 2011
  • Evolution and domestication of seed structure
  • Invigorating plants
  • RNA component of the transcriptome from grain and sweet sorghum
  • The truth about GM crops in Peru
  • Dodia calls for resumption of GMO debate
  • India: Field trial of GM crops only after state govt''s prior nod
  • Greenpeace faults Kenya on GMO maize imports
  • Banned GMO corn found in west Hungary
  • Book: Watermelons: The Green Movement's True Colors
  • Greenpeace Wheat Propaganda - Nothing More Than Fiction
  • Fugitive linked to ecoterrorist firebomb arrested

July 7, 2011
  • Phalanx Biotech Group Launches Rice Genome OneArray
  • ConAgra sued for labelling oils '100% natural'
  • More investments in non-staples urged
  • Judge says GMO opponents' motion too early
  • Rust resistance key to organic wheat survival
  • India: GEAC mandates prior state govt okay
  • EU trade barriers come under fire at WTO
  • Kenya: GMOs to Be Labelled
  • Federal Government Should Support Biotechnology Industry
  • The baseless campaign against GM food

July 6, 2011
  • Nations finally agree on GM food labelling
  • BASF Said to Consider Genetically Modified Crop Exit in Germany
  • Turkey: Genetically modified corn seized at port customs
  • MEPs back plans to 'ignore' GM science
  • Kenya: Importation of GM Maize to Start Next Week
  • GM wheat report anger
  • Low Iodine Levels In Organic Milk

July 5, 2011
  • Next livestock virus targeted for eradication
  • Pope calls for an end to speculation on the hungry
  • Environs Prompt Advantageous Gene Mutations As Plants Grow
  • Doubled haploid technology brings promise to wheat breeders
  • US says it won't regulate Scotts biotech bluegrass
  • Bayer to Settle GMO Rice Suits for $750 Million
  • 'Ill-defined, irrational and costly' GM approval process
  • Seed corn growers' detasseling ritual may become passe
  • Origin of life: cooperative evolution
  • Network Regulates the Heterosis of Yield-Correlated Traits
  • Hunger crisis rekindles debate over GM maize
  • Kenya approves law to allow GM crops
  • GM crops save billion kg of CO2 gas emissions
  • Secret war between Tony Blair and Prince Charles
  • Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior III takes shape
  • GM Crop Saboteurs Go Free in France

July 1, 2011
  • Take cotton success story forward
  • UN calls for transgenic corn ban
  • Medicago truncatula under salt stress

June 30, 2011
  • Amvac, Monsanto Announce Crop Protection Collaboration
  • Soon, tomato-flavoured groundnut
  • sunTILL: a TILLING resource for gene function analysis in sunflower
  • Regulation blocking genetically engineered food animal development, report finds
  • BIO Convention -- Missing Protesters, Frankenswine, and BioSurveillance

June 29, 2011
  • Scientist honoured for contribution to eradication of cattle plague
  • BASF and Embrapa announce a cooperation agreement
  • Monsanto 3rd-quarter net income nearly doubles
  • Puerto Rico will get boost from Monsanto expansion
  • China to spend $308B, gain 1M new jobs in 5-year biotech plan
  • Irradiating organic food would save lives
  • Flax: Ancient Plant with Modern Potential
  • Video: GMO Maize: a practical coexistence experiment in Flanders
  • Decoding Genomes Of Microbe Ecosystems
  • Man-made meat may be just around the corner, say scientists
  • Bolivia moves to end dependence on foreign seed firms
  • Stewart Brand reviews "Environmentalism for THIS century"

June 28, 2011
  • UN food boss brings street cred to new job
  • Pioneer Hi-Bred corn deregulated
  • Monsanto seeks approval for GM soy
  • India: PTTC working on transgenic variety of groundnut
  • Fate of 'uncontacted' tribal people in rainforest

June 27, 2011
  • Europe: Questions and answers on the low level presence (LLP) of GMOs in feed imports
  • DA builds CL biotech farms
  • Australia: Human trial of GM wheat crop to go ahead
  • Scientists reject human trials of GM wheat
  • A comparison of soil and water properties in organic and conventional farming systems 
  • Brazil's Graziano elected chief of UN food agency
  • Kenya: Maize shortage plays into hands of genetically modified food advocates
  • The great migration, from farm to city
  • Merrigan to Lead U.S. Delegation to 37th FAO Ministerial Conference
  • Vilsack Announces Appointments to the Advisory Committee on Biotechnology
  • Silk reaffirms commitment to using North American soybeans

June 24, 2011
  • EU allows unapproved GM material in feed imports
  • Kenya: State Allows Millers to Import GMO Maize
  • Needed: A biotech regulator
  • Illinois Farmer Sees Potential in Chinese Corn Crop
  • Opinion: The great population shift from farm to city
  • Synthetic collagen from maize has human properties
  • Arizona death may be linked to European E. coli
  • GM marijuana problem growing in Colombia

June 23, 2011
  • Federal Officials Approve Monsanto Phosphate Mine in Idaho
  • Drought tolerant GM wheat makes great progress in China
  • All wheat varieties will have to be replaced
  • Let's Reverse 25 Years Of Flawed Agbiotech Regulation
  • GM cloud hangs over responsible soy scheme

June 22, 2011
  • The 2011 World Food Prize Laureates
  • UK and Brazil strengthen science and innovation links
  • Analysis - Brazil brings farming muscle to corn and cotton
  • Genetically Engineered Foods Commentary
  • Pampanga site of 1st Rice Biotech farm
  • Trial of anti-aphid GM wheat awaits government green light
  • An open letter to the green movement
  • Save the global economy, save the planet
  • Greenpeace director banned from Greenland

June 21, 2011
  • First Certified Soy Trading
  • Amvac, Monsanto Announce Crop Protection Collaboration

June 20, 2011
  • Monsanto conditionally allows volunteer canola harvest in 2011
  • Corn Stocks Plunge as China Adds Brazil-Sized Crop to Usage
  • Bt brinjal and its discontents
  • Consumer Watchdogs Fiddled While European Food Safety Burned
  • Junk Science Week: Toxic terrorists ignore organic food threat
  • Nuclear energy as green and safe as organic food

June 17, 2011
  • French activist Bove pushes green agenda in Poland
  • Commentary: Fighting the faux fish fears
  • N Chandra Mohan: Bt brinjal and its discontents

June 16, 2011
  • USDA's Agricultural Research Service Announces Scientist of the Year
  • New Program Boosts Support for Plant Scientists at Critical Time
  • Monsanto Wants Triple Damages Against Mississippi Farm Supply Company
  • Early agriculture affected health badly
  • Experimental gene crops a public risk, must be halted

June 15, 2011
  • Monsanto's new SmartStax refuge-in-a-bag hybrids sold fast
  • DuPont delays seed in soybean spat
  • GM rice spreads, prompts debate in China
  • Unique gene combinations control tropical maize response to day lengths
  • New DNA analysis thousand times more sensitive
  • Cellular trash turns out to be treasure
  • Clearance for Phage-Based E. coli Food Safety Technology
  • International project on sustainable development of rice
  • A fight over the future of farming
  • Bills to force GM, palm oil labelling
  • Woman pleads guilty for role in arson at UW
  • Egypt denies importing Israeli 'cancer-causing' tomatoes

June 14, 2011
  • Europe's GM barrier is 'starving the poor'
  • Genome Offers Clue To Functions Of Destructive Wheat Fungus
  • An effective virus-based gene silencing method
  • Scotts unveils eradication plan for GMO bentgrass

June 13, 2011
  • Monsanto and Farming Communities reduce child labour on farms
  • GangaGen developing a phage-derived recombinant protein to target E.coli
  • Scientists develop open-source genome analyzer
  • Argentine Lab Cow Has Human Hoofprint
  • Book: Transgenic Horticultural Crops
  • Bolivia to pass new transgenics law
  • Rising Food Prices Now 'Matter of Life and Death'
  • E.coli Raises Issues for Food Authority Approvals
  • Europe's Organic Food Scare
  • Organic Foods Buyers See Safety in Worms
  • California Ballot Initiative Hightlights Competing Interests on GMOs
  • Council GE move prompts cheer

June 10, 2011
  • E.coli found in bean sprout package-German officials
  • Scientists make low-acrylamide potatoes
  • Govt red signal for field-trial of genetically-modified rice
  • Greenpeace vows to go on after Cairn case
  • Life Technologies Signs Exclusive License Agreement for TAL Effector Technology
  • Genome sequence could reveal 'Achilles' heels' of important wheat disease

June 9, 2011
  • BASF ups ante in race to develop plant-sourced EPA/DHA
  • Fate of Cry1Ab Protein in Agricultural Systems
  • GMOS Banned From Peru for 10 Years

June 8, 2011
  • Monsanto signs royalty deals with Argentine farmers
  • Philippines to Offer Corn Plantation Areas to Foreign Investors
  • Chinese engineer GM cows to produce human milk
  • Asia Pulp & Paper Challenges Greenpeace Attack

June 7, 2011
  • Genetic test for European E. coli outbreak
  • Irradiation Underused To Fight E. Coli In Foods
  • Research to reduce crop loss from Striga weed in Africa
  • Codex abandons definition and labelling work on GMOs
  • Pakistan: BT corn needs govt approval
  • Bolivia switches on modified foods ban
  • GEAC meet delay may put off trial plans for GM crops
  • ABLE-AG makes a plea for early meeting of GEAC
  • Video: Patrick Moore on GMO, Sustainable Energy & Pop Environmentalism
  • Organic expert receives chilly reception at "coexistence" conference

June 6, 2011
  • "Potato activist" sacked by Leuven University
  • Sadc 'unites' in policy on genetic crops

June 3, 2011
  • Greenpeace Violators Of Bt Eggplant Trial To Be Prosecuted
  • A new pathosystem to study Fusarium head blight
  • Cryptic Mutations Could Be Evolution's Hidden Fuel
  • E.coli hysteria causes leaders to make damaging decisions

June 2, 2011
  • US: Text of Bill to Expedite Approval of Biotech Products
  • NAFTA dispute over Quebec 2,4-D ban settled
  • Impacts of GE Crops on Biodiversity
  • World's biggest rice exporter sets GE-free rice policy
  • Australia's first cloned horse kicks up controversy
  • Africa's Green Revolution may be a long time coming
  • Extra security for Genetically Modified Poplars
  • Family Farmers Amplify Legal Complaint Against Monsanto GMOs
  • Deadly bacteria may mimic human proteins to evolve antibiotic resistance

May 31, 2011
  • How Plants Control the Formation of Wood Cells
  • Parental Conflict in Plants: Maternal Factors Silence Paternal Genes
  • Researchers identify palm gender genome

May 30, 2011
  • DuPont sees increased seed market share
  • Farmers express reservations over GM corn plan
  • GM wheat trial begins amid secrecy
  • Local farmers question the economic benefit of organic label
  • Climate change, BT challenges for agriculture: Swaminathan
  • EU rules on biofuel concern soybean growers
  • Report: Sweden would benefit from GM food
  • Belgium: Activists destroy genetically modified crops

May 27, 2011
  • Attempt to speed up approval of biotech crops
  • Food Derived From Herbicide-Tolerant, High Oleic Acid Soybean
  • Ag Coalition Says Antibiotic Facts Are on Its Side

May 26, 2011
  • Syngenta receives approval for Agrisure Viptera in Argentina
  • 'Sweet wheat' for tastier and more healthful baking
  • Non-GM canola fetches price premium over GM
  • Brazil's Search for Transgenic Drought-Resistant Soy, Bean, Cotton,
  • FDA petitioned to complete environmental impact review for AquaBounty salmon
  • Dr. Roger Beachy, Director of USDA's National Institute for Agriculture, gets scientific view of biotechnology in France
  • Mozambique Plans to Revise GMO Regulations
  • MEPs consider animal protein reintroduction

May 25, 2011
  • Risk Management Agency Approves Genuity Smartstax Rib Complete
  • European Food Safety Authority launches updated guidance
  • Monsanto Dangles New Seeds In Push To Collect Argentina Royalties
  • A Biotech Fish Story
  • Pesticides and GMOs are Croatians´ biggest food fears

May 24, 2011
  • Court dismisses biobeet appeal at backers' request
  • Ceres Plans IPO to Challenge Monsanto in Modified Seeds
  • 'GM crops can help meet food demand'
  • Activists held in 'Frankenfood' spuds raid

May 23, 2011
  • Syngenta to build $71 million seed genetics resesarch center
  • USGC finds growing market potential in Turkey
  • Toxic pesticides from GM food crops found in unborn babies
  • Initial field test results GM poplars: bioethanol yield almost doubled
  • Ten great public health achievements: United States, 2001 to 2010
  • Philippine lawmakers urge students to take up agricultural sciences
  • Europe: New plant breeding techniques. State-of-the-art and prospects for commercial development
  • Risky potato plan mashed by activists
  • Work With RNA Silencing and Plant Stem Cells
  • Organic food helps people live longer
  • Withholding GM crops from farmers an 'injustice'
  • Farmers, stakeholders join workshop on crop biotech communication
  • New Crichton novel, 'Micro,' coming in fall
  • Bt Brinjal to be studied for its medicinal and nutritional qualities