Articles in the December 2, 2011 Issue of Crop Biotech Update

NEWS

Global
• "Energy-smart" Agriculture Needed to Escape Fossil Fuel Trap
• FAO Report on Scarcity and Degradation of Land and Water as Threat to Food Security

Africa
• Ghana Hosts 1^st Pan-Africa Biotechnology Stewardship Conference
• Uganda Banana Focus of $7M Grant from USAID

Americas
• E. Coli Engineered to Eat Switchgrass and Produce Fuels
• Purdue Scientist Investigates Role of Steroids in Plant Height and Sex Determination
• Herbicide May Affect Plants Thought to be Resistant
• Economic Impact After 15 Years of GM Crops in Argentina
• Walnut Trees May Not Be Able to Withstand Climate Change

Asia and the Pacific
• Australian Growers Urged to be Vigilant as Brome Grass Found to Be Resistant to Glyphosate
• BiotechToons: Editorial Cartoons on Biotech Benefits and Potentials
• Scientists Collaborate to Battle Brown Planthopper in Asia
• "Biotechnology into Campus" in Beijing
• New Assay for Screening GMOs
• Notification of GM Canola License
• Philippines Steps up to Development Challenges through Genomics
• APEC Technology Transfer and Advanced Agricultural Tech Conference
• Biomass to Boost Malaysian Economy

Europe
• Plant Sciences Federation to Tackle Global Challenges
• Parasitoids Larvae in Caterpillars Affect Behavior of Moths
• France's Ban on GM Crops Illegal, says Higher Courts
• Horizon 2020 on Biotechnology's Role in Meeting Europe's ‘Grand Challenges'

Research
• Effects of Feeds with GM Maize on Weanling Pigs
• Scientists Evaluate Effects of Bt Toxin on Worker Honeybees
• Development and Validation of L allele-specific Markers in Capsicum

New Assay for Screening GMOs

Chinese scientists developed a new method to be used in screening GMOs presence in foods or feeds. This new screening approach is a Quadruplex PCR assay which can be used to more than 90 approved GMO events. It offers high specificity and sensitivity with an absolute limit of detection of about 80 target copies. The developed assay has been used successfully for screening the artificial GM samples from the U.S. Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) proficiency program.

Read the research article about the development of the assay at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814611016803.

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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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