Crop Biotech Update

September 16, 2020

ANU Book Presents Stories of Communicating Science in 39 Countries

How did science communication emerge as a field of study and a body of practice? How has development varied from one country to another? What motivated governments, institutions, and people to regard it as answer to social position of science? Australian National University (ANU) released the book, Communicating Science: A Global Perspective, which answers these relevant questions.

FAO Reports Lack of Progress in Achieving SDG

The world is lagging in attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by 2030, and the COVID-19 pandemic is making it even harder, according to the report of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

PH Government Grants GM Corn Seeds, Farm Inputs to Farmers Association's Model Farm

The Philippines Department of Agriculture (DA) through its Regional Office 9 turned over farm inputs to a farmer's association in Zamboanga del Norte in Southern Philippines. The inputs, which included seeds of genetically modified (GM) yellow corn, were given as part of the Plant, Plant, Plant Program of DA Secretary William Dar.

CRISPR-Cas9 Elucidates Seed Shattering Reduction during Rice Domestication

Researchers from the National Agricultural and Food Research Organization in Japan reported a mutation in OsSh1 causing non-shattering in a rice mutant cultivar using whole-genome resequencing. The results are published in Scientific Reports.

COVID-19 ALERTS

NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

cry1Ab Transgene Segregation Patterns of GM Maize Documented

PLANT BREEDING INNOVATIONS

GM APPROVAL UPDATES

The Philippines approved cotton MON88701 for food, feed, and processing.
The Philippines approved corn MON87427 x MON89034 x TC1507 x MON87411 x 59122 for food, feed, and processing.
The Philippines approved eggplant EE1 for food, feed, and processing.
The Philippines approved corn MON87429 for food, feed, and processing.
The Philippines approved rice GR2E for commercial propagation.
The Philippines approved (renewal) corn MON89034 for commercial propagation.

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