Articles in the May 18, 2012 Issue of Crop Biotech Update

NEWS

Africa
• Biotech Experts Convene to Develop Regional GM Policy for Eastern and Southern Africa
• Biotechnology Has Full Backing of Kenyan Government
• Expert Calls for Expedition of the Implementation of Biosafety Law
• Gates Foundation Gives US$3M to OFAB for Biotech Adoption
• Drought Tolerant Maize Boosts Farmers' Harvests in Tanzania

Americas
• UW Develops Heart-healthier Oat
• Scientists Alters Plant Fatty Acid Production
• USDA Expands Public-Private Partnership to Increase Global Cocoa Production
• Call for House, Senate Support to Biotechnology
• APHIS Unable to Address Litigation Issues Related to GE Crops
• Dwarf Plants to Cut Input Costs
• US Leaders Show Support To Biotechnology

Asia and the Pacific
• CAS-JIC Partners for Crop Science Centre of Excellence
• Singapore Biodiesel Company Develops GM Jatropha
• China Completes Sequence of Foxtail Millet Genome
• GM and Society Forum in Beijing
• Japanese Scientists Create Salt Resistant Rice
• National Center for GM Crops in Korea Promotes Commercialization of Biotech Crops
• Chinese Newspaper Coverage of Genetically Modified Organisms

Europe
• Scientists Develop Whitefly Resistant Plants
• £6.8M Phenomics Center Opens

Research
• A Comparative Study of Protein and DNA-Based Detection Methods for GMO Testing
• Plants Grow Without Light
• Pyramiding Resistance Genes to Combat Bacterial Blight in Hybrid Rice

Announcements
• Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st Century
• 11th International Conference on Bioinformatics 2012

Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st Century

The Global Cassava Partnership for the 21^st Century (GCP21) will conduct their 2^nd conference on June 18-22, 2012 at the Speke Resort and Conference Centre in Kampala, Uganda. The event aims to gather researchers from different institutions who are working on research and development of cassava.

Registration details are available at http://www.danforthcenter.org/gcp21-ii/.

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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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