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

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Global
• Online Consultation on Food Security

Africa
• A Further Boost for Strategic Biosafety Research by Biosafety South Africa
• Nigeria to Use Biotech to Address Food Problem

Americas
• Brazil Registers Growth in GM Plantings
• Danforth Center Scientists Discover a Method to Reduce Cyanogens in Cassava
• Outstanding Stress Resistance Found in Swedish Soybeans
• Agriscience Awards Honor Innovators
• Some Plants Duplicate their Chromosomes to Overcome Distress

Asia and the Pacific
• China Reports on Agricultural IP Creation
• Media Practitioners Enlightened About Biotechnology's Role in Changing Climate
• GM Tech a Must in Bangladesh for Food Security and Poverty Alleviation, says Ag Minister
• Pakistan and Turkmenistan to Collaborate on Agricultural Research
• Chemist and Biotechnologist, Among the Conferred Members of the Philippine S&T Academy
• Scientists Recognized During the Philippine Science and Technology Week
• Seminars on Biotech Potato Breeding in Indonesia
• Thailand Positive towards Biotech in Development Plan
• GM Crops, a Must Have in Indonesia to Mitigate Climate Change

Europe
• EFSA Releases Scientific Opinion on Post Market Environmental Monitoring of GMPs
• Epigenetic "Memory" Key to Nature vs Nurture
• Researchers Produce Library of Onion Traits for Global Food Security

Research
• Biologists Study Genetic Mechanism Involved in Shade Responses of Grasses
• Effects of GM Wheat with Resistance to Powdery Mildew on Non-target Insect Herbivores
• Increase in Antioxidant Activity of Soybean using a New Transformation Protocol

Announcements
• AUSBiOTECH 2011 Conference in Adelaide
• International Chromosome and Genetics Conference
• The 3^rd ASEAN Food Security Conference in Jakarta

Document Reminders
• CAST Website Relaunched

Agriscience Awards Honor Innovators

The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation (CCFF) and the American Farm Bureau Federation presented awards to distinguished scientists, academicians, and high school students for their commendable innovation in the field of agricultural science.

Andrew Paterson, a distinguished research professor at the University of Georgia, received the CCFF Agricultural Science Distinguished Scientist Award. He used genomic tools and approaches to research on crop improvement, plant biodiversity, molecular evolution, and biofuel production efficiency.

Bhiravi Rathinasabapathi, a 2011 graduate of Eastside High School in Florida, was one of the semi-finalists in the Intel Science Talent Search. Her research dealt with the biofortification of crops with iron, which may eventually fight anemia.

Read more about the awardees at http://www.fb.org/index.php?action=newsroom.news&year=2011&file=nr0712b.html.

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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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