Crop Biological Breeding Industrialization Summit 2014 in Beijing
February 19, 2014| |
Around three hundred participants from scientific and academic community, government agencies, private sector and media took part in Crop Biological Breeding Industrialization Summit 2014 on February 14, 2014 in Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, China. The summit featured the seminar and launch of ISAAA founder and Emeritus Chair Dr. Clive James' Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GMCrops in 2013 (ISAAA Brief 46). The Brief was also launched in its first media conference in Beijing, a day before, with 25 tri media practitioners and media outlets in China.
Dr. Chen Zhangliang, Vice President of Chinese Association of Science and Technology (CAST), was Chairman of the summit. He encouraged innovation in bio-breeding for ensuring national food security and highlighted the contribution of GM technology for new varieties breeding in his welcome remarks. Dr. Paul Teng, Chair of ISAAA, discussed the Food Security: A Defining Issue for Asia. Dr. Lv Yuping, Director of Biotech Center of DBN Group Ltd., presented the Innovation Driving Development of Seed Industry. Professor Yang Daichang from Wuhan University gave a talk about GM rice producing human serum albumin.
The summit was co-organized by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) and 5 key Academic Societies in China, including Chinese Society of Biotechnology, Chinese Society of Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology, Chinese Society of Agri-biotechnology, Chinese Society of Crop Science and China Society of Plant Protection.
For more information about biotechnology developments in the China, visit http://www.biotechchina.org/ or e-mail zhanghx@mail.las.ac.cn
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