NEWS

Global
• Report Tackles Global Impact of Biotech Crops 
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• Leaves Keep Their Cool to Protect Photosynthesis 

Africa
• Doubled Haploid Approach to Develop Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa 
• New Production System to Boost Rice Yield in West Africa 

Americas
• Argentina Approves New GM Maize Variety 
• Honduras to Increase GM Maize Cultivation 
• Australian Sunflower Genes Could Fortify U.S. Sunflowers 
• Companies to Develop Nitrogen Use Efficient Lawn Grass 
• Bacterial Extracts to Combat Fungal Diseases 
• Dow AgroSciences and Sangamo BioSciences Announce Biotech Milestones 

Asia and the Pacific
• ERMA Plans Hearing for GM Field Test Application 
• UA Receives Approval for Release of GM Wheat and Barley 
• Keeping Biotech-Derived Foods Halal in Indonesia 
• UA Scientists Receive Grant to Solve Iron Deficiency 
• India Declares "Food Safety and Quality Year 2008-09" 
• Bangladesh Scientist Emeritus Calls for Biotech Directorate 
• Lawmakers Consider First-Ever Biodiversity Bill in Vietnam 

Europe
• Deliberate Release of GM Crops in Spain 
• Scientists Find Horizontal Gene Transfer of No Significance 
• EFSA Develops Database of External Scientific Experts 
• VIB and Bayer Team Up for Plant Research 

Research
• Functional Human IL13 from GM Tobacco 
• GM Papaya Transgenes Remain Stable For Several Generations 
• Novel Arsenic Transporter in Plants 
• Scientists Develop Nitrogen Use Efficient Rice 

Announcements
• Solanaceae Genome Workshop 
• World Congress on In Vitro Biology 

Document Reminders
• Report on Synthetic Biology Now Published