Crop Biotech Update

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.

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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

cry1Ab Transgene Segregation Patterns of GM Maize Documented

PLANT BREEDING INNOVATIONS

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GM APPROVAL UPDATES

Australia and New Zealand approved the wheat event HB4 for food.
The USA approved the canola event NS-B5ØØ27-4 for food and feed.
Canada approved canola event LBFLFK for food.
The USA approved canola event LBFLFK for food and feed.
The USA approved soybean event GMB151 for cultivation.
Australia approved canola events MS11 × RF3 and MS11 × RF3 × MON 88302.

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Events

3rd Asian Short Course on Agri-biotech, Biosafety Regulation, and Communication
November 23 - 26, 2020
via Zoom , Asia
Read more details from the ISAAA website.
ABSANZ Summit 2020: Biosafety - The New Norm
November 24 - 26, 2020
Online , Australia
The full program and further information is available at the ABSANZ website.
IEEE Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference 2021 (IEC 2021)
August 15 - 17, 2021
Amman , Jordan
Get more details from the conference website.

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