Articles in the December 11, 2009 Issue of Crop Biotech Update

NEWS

Global
• Agriculture and Rural Development Day in Copenhagen
• FAO Sees Banana Trade Weathering Economic Slump
• Food Prices on the Rise Again, Reports UN Agency
• IRRI and Bayer Team up to Improve Rice Productivity

Africa
• Challenges and Opportunities for Biotechnology in Africa
• Ghana Identifies Need for Biotech in Agriculture

Americas
• APHIS Deregulates Herbicide-Tolerant Corn
• Farm Groups File Brief Against Biotech Alfalfa Ban
• Fungal Biocontrol for the Ascochyta Blight
• Canada to Increase Canola Oil Export to China
• BASF and Monsanto Ink Corn Development Pact

Asia and the Pacific
• Bt Brinjal is a Safe Breakthrough: Indian Minister of S&T
• China Launches Project on GMO Security Assessment and Testing
• India's ICAR Professor Honored with Ernesto Illy Trieste Science Prize
• Biotech Tools Improve Biomass Quality of Sorghum
• Taiwan, South Korea Approve Eight-Trait GM Corn for Import
• Press Conference for 4th China Bioindustry Convention 2010
• China to Develop Third-Generation Genome Sequencing Instrument
• Bangladeshi Agric Minister Bats for Biotech
• Discussion on the Regulation of Biotech-Derived Food Products in Indonesia
• The Blooming Orchid Industry in Malaysia

Europe
• Amylopectin Potatoes by Precision Breeding

Research
• Carbon Monoxide Enhances Plant Tolerance to Iron Starvation
• Transgenic Cassava Plants Resist Pathogen and Insect Attacks
• New Relationship Between Gene Duplication and Alternative Splicing in Plants

Announcements
• International Conference on Biotechnology Based Sustainable Agriculture
• International Conference on Agribiotech in Uganda
• Pan Arab Biodiversity Conference

APHIS Deregulates Herbicide-Tolerant Corn

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) said that it will deregulate Pioneer Hi-Bred's genetically modified corn event 98140 after "a thorough review of scientific information, public comments, and an environmental assessment." The GM corn, resistant to glyphosate and acetolactate synthase-inhibiting herbicides, can now be freely moved and planted without the requirement of permits or other regulatory oversight by APHIS.

APHIS said that scientific evidence indicates that any environmental, human health or food safety concerns associated with the GM corn line are "unlikely to occur."

Relevant documents are available at http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#docketDetail?R=APHIS-2008-0094

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This article is part of the Crop Biotech Update, a weekly summary of world developments in agri-biotech for developing countries, produced by the Global Knowledge Center on Crop Biotechnology, International Service for the Aquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications SEAsiaCenter (ISAAA)

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