New Safety Research Projects on GM Crops
October 17, 2008| |
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has placed eight million euros into 23 research projects in a program that focus on three genetically modification (GM) environmental safety issues. The first research focus is to develop methods to prevent the uncontrollable spread of GM plants that contain new or modified substances to produce functional foods or for the production of industrial or pharmaceutical materials. The second is on the development of low-persistence rape lines through breeding to reduce the problem of volunteer seeds in rape. An environmental impact study on a new type of Bt maize which is resistant to two main chewing pests, the European corn borer and the Western corn rootworm, constitute the third research priority.
For details see the news at http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/news/380.docu.html
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