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Nigeria Academy of Science Declares Support for Biotech |
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The Nigeria Academy of Science, the country's top scientific organization and the federal government's scientific advisor has declared that GMOs are safe and beneficial to improve agricultural productivity. Furthermore, the Academy noted that the technology has the potential to address food security. The Academy's declaration also reiterated the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' report that GM crops are safe.
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New CAST Paper Examines Trade and Biotech Issues |
 The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) Literature Review and Report has been released. The Impact of Asynchronous Approvals for Biotech Crops on Agricultural Sustainability, Trade, and Innovation looks at problems caused by asynchronous approvals for biotech crops. The authors focused on the economic effects in countries that are major global commodity exporters and importers, which show that asynchrony in the global approval of new biotech crops and the resultant risk of low level presence (LLP) puts large volumes of trade worth billions of dollars at risk.
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Reassessment of the Yield-Related Genes in Rice through CRISPR |
 The CRISPR/Cas9 system has been successfully used as efficient tool for genome editing in a variety of species. Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China aimed to use the CRISPR/Cas9 system to mutate genes reported to function as regulators of grain number (Gn1a), panicle architecture (DEP1), grain size (GS3), and plant architecture (IPA1) in rice.
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GM APPROVAL UPDATES |
- The Philippines approved the canola event LBFLFK for food, feed, and processing.
- The Philippines approved the cotton event GFM cry1A for commercial cultivation.
- Brazil approved the wheat event HB4 for commercial cultivation.
- The Philippines approved the soybean event GMB 151 for food, feed, and processing.
- The Philippines approved the eggplant event EE-1 for cultivation
- The USA approved the canola event MON94100 for food and feed.
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