Articles in the August 5, 2011 Issue of Crop Biotech Update

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• Brazil Registers Growth in GM Plantings
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Outstanding Stress Resistance Found in Swedish Soybeans

U.S. Department of Agriculture geneticists searched for the sources of tolerance to ozone and other stresses in the American ancestors of soybeans. They found that the Fiskeby soybeans from the northern part of Sweden have outstanding tolerance for salt, high levels of ozone, drought, iron deficiency, and toxic levels of aluminum.

Scientists Tommy Carter and Kent Burkley analyzed thousands of soybean types to generate the family tree of North American soybeans. The Swedish soybeans have the most pronounced resistance to ozone compared to the other stresses. Understanding the ozone effect may be a key to discovering the broad stress resistance of the Swedish soybeans.

Read the media release at http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2011/110729.htm.

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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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