NEWS

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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