Articles in the April 13, 2012 Issue of Crop Biotech Update

NEWS

Global
• Paarlberg: GM Crops Produce Higher Yields

Africa
• NARO Scientist: Uganda to Commercialize Biotech Cotton in 2014
• African Farmers Share the Story of Biofortified Crops on Radio
• Investing in S & T will Spur Kenya's Development Says President Kibaki

Americas
• UCLA Study to Predict Plant Survival vs. Drought
• Plant Genetics Facility Opens in Iowa, USA

Asia and the Pacific
• Chinese Scientists Breed Long-fiber Cotton
• A Potato for the Day's Vitamin C Fix
• Hokkaido Government to Keep GM Planting Ban
• Mini-symposium on GM Crops in Asia by Hokkaido Bio-Industry Association, Japan
• More GM Corn Field Trials Before Commercialization in Vietnam
• University of Southern Mindanao Welcomes Development in Bt Eggplant Field Trial
• Chinese Researchers Estimate Uncertainty in GMO Quantification
• China Develops Second Generation GM Cotton
• GM Crop Seminar Enlightens University Executive
• Algae.Tec to Open Production Facility in Australia and Sri Lanka

Europe
• GM Potato Trials to Continue in Europe
• EFSA: GM Maize Safe
• UK Donates £16M to FAO to Improve Agricultural Statistics

Research
• Maternally Produced siRNAs Regulate Seed Size
• Touch Activates Plant's Insect Defenses
• Auxin's Role in Symptom Dev't upon Rhodococcus fascians infection

Announcements
• 2012 BIO International Convention
• Commercialization of Biotech Crops: Learning from Asia

Document Reminders
• OECD Environment Working Paper No. 40 Now Available

OECD Environment Working Paper No. 40 Now Available

The March issue of OECD Environment Working Papers is now available at the OECD iLibrary. "Adaptation and Innovation An Analysis of Crop Biotechnology Patent Data" is the 40th working paper and is also available in French.

Download the March issue at http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/environment/adaptation-and-innovation_5k9csvvntt8p-en.

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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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