Articles in the October 7, 2011 Issue of Crop Biotech Update

NEWS

Global
• Policy Implications to Advance Development and Adoption of GM Technology
• Cereal World Production Up But Price Decline Anticipated
• Agroecology Offers Model for "New Green Revolution"

Africa
• Infrastructure for Wheat Rust Trials in Kenya
• Ghanaians Urged to Embrace Biotech for Food Security
• Spotlight on Biofortified Crops during the FANUS Conference
• African Rice Experts Adopt a New Way of Doing Business

Americas
• Developing Drought Tolerant Corn Hybrids
• How Experts and Non-Experts Make Decisions on GM Crop Release
• Plant Biologists Seek Solutions to Global Food Concerns
• UC Davis Scientist Discusses Biotech to Journalism Students at MU

Asia and the Pacific
• Asian Regional Workshop on Sustainable Agriculture, Biotechnology and Biosafety
• India to Establish Borlaug Institute for South Asia
• Kendall Urges Industry to Promote GM Wheat Benefits
• ACIAR Study: Rice Breeding Boosts Yields and Farmers' Income
• Workshop on Potato Breeding Concluded in Makassar, Indonesia

Europe
• Biotechnology, Necessary to Climate Proof Crops
• Defeating Nematode Worms with GM Bananas
• New Insight Into Plant Immune Defenses
• DFID to Support Delivery of Nutrient-rich Crops
• JIC Scientists Open Eyes on Stomatal Spacing
• Lobby Groups Threatening Public Acceptance of GM Technology

Research
• Impacts of Bt Cotton on a Non-target Pest, Apolygus lucorum, in Northern China
• Scientists Compare Proteomic Profiles of MON810 Maize Varieties and their Non-GM Varieties
• Utilization of PVX-Cre Expression Vector in Potato

Announcements
• Second Conference on System Biology and New Sequence Techniques
• Functional Genomics and System Biology, Cambridge, UK
• 2012 Weed Science Society of America: Annual Meeting

2012 Weed Science Society of America: Annual Meeting

The 52^nd Annual Meeting of the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) will be held on February 6-9, 2012 in Waikoloa, Hawaii. There will be special symposia on: 1) the role of herbicide-resistant crops in sustainable agriculture, 2) stewarding off-target movement of pesticides, and 3) non-chemical weed management in reduced tillage systems. Early bird rates are available to those who register before December 5. In addition, discounted hotel rates at the Hilton Waikoloa Village Hotel are available through January 5, 2012.

For more information or to register, visit the annual meeting section of the WSSA website at
http://www.wssa.net/Meetings/WSSAAnnual/Info.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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