Crop Biotech Update

November 3, 2016

FAO Report Promotes Biotechnology as Key Tool in Facing Climate Change

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) released its annual report on The State of Food and Agriculture focusing on impacts of climate change on agriculture and the implications for food security. According to the report, there is an urgent need to support smallholders in adapting to climate change. Farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk and community foresters are dependent on tasks that involve climate and at the same time, these groups are also the most vulnerable to climate change. Thus, there is a greater need for access to technologies, markets, information, and credit for investment to adjust their production systems and practices to climate change.

Philippines Research Shows Bt Eggplant Does Not Harm Non-target Insects

Genetically modified Bt eggplant has no negative impacts on the biological diversity of non-target organisms, according to researchers from the University of the Philippines Los Ba�os (UPLB) and Cornell University. These are the results of the first ever field level study of the effects of insect resistant genetically modified (GM) Bt eggplants on non-target arthropod species.

Meta-analysis in Mexico Confirms There are No Additional Risks in GM Maize Compared with Conventional Maize

A team of Mexican researchers studied the agronomic and phenotypic characteristics of three genetically modified (GM) maize hybrids, two GM insect resistant herbicide-tolerant and one herbicide-tolerant, grown in five ecological regions of Mexico, between 2009 and 2013.

New Gene Editing Technology Cures Blood Disorder in Mice

Scientists from Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University have developed a next-generation gene editing system that has cured a genetic blood disorder in living mice using a simple intra-venous treatment.

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GM APPROVAL UPDATES

The USA approved sugarcane event CTC91087-6 for food and feed.
The USA approved maize event DBN9858 for food and feed.
The USA approved potato event Gen2-Z6 for food and feed.
The USA approved cotton MON88702 for cultivation.
The USA approved petunia event A1-DFR for cultivation.
The USA approved maize event PY203 for cultication.

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