Articles in the June 8, 2012 Issue of Crop Biotech Update

NEWS

Global
• Consortium Releases Pear Genome Data
• DNA Discovery Key to Drought Resistant Crops
• Genomic Studies Shed Light on Maize Diversity and Evolution
• Plant Research Funding Crucial for the Future

Africa
• G8 Outcomes – Will the Private Sector Undermine Africa's Smallholder Farmers?
• Burkina Faso to Continue Growing Bt Cotton

Americas
• BASF: Farmers Will See the Value of Drought Tolerant Corn
• US Environmental Assessment for GE Eucalyptus Hybrid Field Release Available
• One Sample Testing Program Receives USDA-RMA Continuation Approval
• CLC bio, Donald Danfort Plant Science Center Partner for Cassava for Africa Project
• Genetic Sequence and Map of Foxtail Millet Released
• Oil Production Mechanism in Plants Identified

Asia and the Pacific
• Scientists Develop First Genetically Modified Miscanthus
• BKS Study Confirms Benefits of Bt Cotton to Indian Small Farmers
• Australian Scientist to be Awarded Farrer Memorial Medal
• GRDC Calls for Insecticide Resistance Grassroots Input

Europe
• ICG Europe Tackles Plant, Animal and Human Genomics
• NUE Efficient Sugar Beets Field Test Results Released
• Nobel Awardee Expresses Views on GM
• Bayer CropScience Opens Wheat Breeding Center in Germany

Research
• Over-expression of CYCD2;1 Improves Banana Root Growth
• Study Shows How Oleic Acid Regulates Nitric Oxide Production
• Bt Cry and Cyt Mutants for Overcoming Insect Resistance

Announcements
• 11th International Conference on Bioinformatics, Bangkok

Document Reminders
• PK 40 Biotechnology for the Livestock Industry
• The Benefits of Herbicide-Resistant Crops

PK 40 Biotechnology for the Livestock Industry

ISAAA publishes Pocket K 40 on Biotechnology for the Livestock Industry, a two-page simple discourse on the biotechnology tools employed in livestock improvement. It discusses Reproductive Animal Biotechnologies such as artificial insemination, embryo transfer, in-vitro fertilization and somatic cell nuclear transfer; Applications of genomics and marker-assisted selection; and future initiatives in DNA-based technology for livestock improvement. Pockets of Knowledge (Pocket Ks) are packaged information on biotechnologies in easy to understand style and format that is easily shared and distributed. Pocket K 40 is now available at the ISAAA website at http://www.isaaa.org/resources/publications/pocketk/40/default.asp.

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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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