GM Potatoes will not be Released in the Andes - CIP
August 3, 2007| |
The International Potato Center (CIP) has stressed that it will not release genetically modified (GM) potatoes in the Andes, which includes the countries of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina and Chile. CIP feels that the understanding of potential environmental risks and cultural consequences associated with the introduction of transgenic potatoes in the center of diversity is not yet adequate. The Center has already developed a transgenic potato which however has never been grown in the field in Peru or anywhere else in the world. The CIP GM potato was specifically developed to resist the potato tuber moth (PTM), Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller).
Read the complete press release at http://www.cipotato.org/pressroom/press_releases_detail.asp?cod=41.
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