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