Biotech Updates

Season's Greetings from ISAAA

The Crop Biotech Update (CBU) staff thanks its more than a half million subscribers for being part of our effort to share global developments in crop biotechnology. This last CBU for the year will be the 52^nd issue, and the 450^th issue since 2001. We will resume the CBU on January 9, 2009.

NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Review of CGIAR and NARS Linkages
Forging Alliances, Forging Ahead Against Hunger
Study Suggests Climate Change Could Boost Corn Pests
Drought Increases Vitamin E Levels in Soybean Seeds
Brazil's CTNBio Approves New GM Corn
US GAO Report on Regulatory Process for GE Crops
Soybean to Resist Roundworm with its Own Gene
USDA Seeks Comment on Herbicide-Tolerant Corn Deregulation
UC Davis Gets US$ 6.8 M to Map Wheat Genome
Monsanto and Plant Health Care to Collaborate on Harpin Technology
GM Wheat and Barley with Altered Grain Starch Composition
Biotech Helps Fight Climate Change
Indonesian Scientists on Biotech Foods
Bangladeshi Biotechnologists Organize Roundtable with Journalists
Italy Approves Biotech Field Trials
EFSA’s Opinion on Nanotechnology and Food and Feed Safety
GM Crops Could Reduce Need for Herbicides

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Auxin Holds the Key to More Efficient Crops
Scientists Find Molecular Switch for Cellulose Production
Transgenic Tobacco with TT8 cDNA Accumulated High Flavonoid Contents

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