Articles in the September 23, 2011 Issue of Crop Biotech Update

NEWS

Global
• The Benefits of Biotech to Agriculture
• Benefits of Good Nutrition Take Center Stage at UN High-Level Event
• Science Communication to Step Up in Muslim Countries

Africa
• US Embassy in Gambia Conducts Biotech Seminar for Policy Makers

Americas
• Scientists Develop New Potato Lines to Wage War on Wireworms
• Breeding Soybeans for Improved Feed
• Scab Resistance in Durum Wheat
• Crop Genetics to Battle Harsh Conditions
• Texas Center Aims for Drought Tolerant Melons
• Hidden Link in DNA of Plant

Asia and the Pacific
• Indonesian Farmers Learn Biotech Crop Adoption in the Philippines
• Notice of License Application for Limited and Controlled Release of GM Wheat and Barley
• Variety Market Development: A Bt Cotton Cropping Factor and Constraint in China

Europe
• York Scientist to Produce Biofuel from Orange Peel
• Butterflies on Bt Corn Not at Risk in Nature
• Adoption of GM Crops in Spain Reaches Record High
• Swiss Consumers: Freedom of Choice and GM
• DEFRA Approves Wheat Trial

Research
• Researchers Investigate Molecular Mechanisms of Duplicated Genes in Tobacco
• Improved Phosphate Uptake in Alfalfa Seeds by Overexpression of Genes from Medicago truncatula
• Scientists Develop Blight-resistant Potato using Ensifer-mediated Transformation

Document Reminders
• Feeds: Genetically Modified
• Philippine Agribiotechnology Annual Report

DEFRA Approves Wheat Trial

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in the United Kingdom has granted approval to Rothamsted Research to conduct a research trial on wheat genetically modified to resist aphids in 2012 and 2013. It was evaluated by the Advisory Committee of Releases to the Environment (ACRE).

Precautionary conditions were attached to the statutory consent for the trial to ensure that no GM material from the trial will enter the food and feed chain.

Read the news release at http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2011/09/16/gm-wheat-trial/. More information on the Rothamsted Research application and the statutory consent is at http://bit.ly/nn793T.

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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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