Articles in the August 3, 2012 Issue of Crop Biotech Update

NEWS

Global
• FAO Director-General Calls on Academia in Fight Against Hunger
• IFPRI Modeling Study Shows Which Technologies Provide Significant Yield Improvement

Africa
• South Africa GM Maize Gets Commodity Clearance
• Kenyan Farmers Benefit from Customized Maize Seeds for Dryland Areas
• World Bank Report Urges African Countries to Harmonize Biosafety Regulation
• IITA releases Vitamin A-enriched Maize in Nigeria

Americas
• Drought Tolerant Corn Shows Promising Results
• Giving Winter Wheat Research a Boost with a $475,000 investment in Canada
• Conservation Tillage Saves Oil, Soil and Toil in Cotton
• US Gov't Funds Research on Shrub Willow as Biofuel Potential
• IRM's Contribution to Stewardship of Bt Crops

Asia and the Pacific
• Australian Research Partnership for Increasing Wheat Yield
• OGTR Issues License for Environmental Release of GM Cotton
• GRDC Releases Five Year Strategic Plan 2012-2017
• Tel Aviv Researcher Says Plants can See, Smell, Feel, and Taste
• National Gene Bank at NIB Bangladesh

Europe
• TEAGASC to Investigate Environmental Impact of GM Blight Resistant Potatoes
• Glover: GE Food Poses No Risk
• ISGA Farmers Share Biotechnology Experience with French Stakeholders
• GM Feeding Studies Show Bt Maize OK for Pigs
• Gene Technology Helps Deceive Greedy Pest Insects

Research
• Suppression of Pink Bollworm on Non-Bt Cotton by Bt Cotton in China
• Glyphosate Tolerance in GM Canola by a Modified gox Gene
• Effect of Cleistogamy in GM Rice Agronomic Traits and Gene Containment

Announcements
• 2nd Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change

Document Reminders
• Agricultural Innovation Systems and Family Farming Summary Report
• Online Knowledge Bank to Help Farmers Fight Crop Pests and Diseases
• Global Wheat Rust Monitoring Website
• How Do "Imagined Farmers" Negotiate Actual Risks?
• CCAFS Annual Report Now Available

IRM's Contribution to Stewardship of Bt Crops

The design and implementation of insect resistance management programs for Bt crops, a paper published in the journal GM Crops and Food, notes the success of using integrated resistant management (IRM) programs and how they have contributed to proper stewardship.

Authors Graham Head and John Greenplate summarize the current status of Bt crop technologies in cotton and corn, the principles of IRM for Bt crops and what they mean for the design of IRM programs. They observed that resistance issues, if any, were associated with first generation technologies and incomplete or compromised IRM programs.

"Next generation technologies with multiple pyramided modes of action, together with the implementation of IRM strategies that are more dependent upon manufacturing and less dependent upon grower behavior, such as seed mixes, should further enhance IRM programs for Bt crops," the authors added.

The paper's abstract is available at http://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/gmcrops/2012GMC0001R.pdf.

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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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