April 09
ISB News Report
- Regulating coexistence – Another barrier on the path of
genetically engineered crops in Europe?
- A genetic engineering framework for improving Brassica
napus
January 09
ISB News Report
- Alternative approach to
the genetic modification of alfalfa
- Sensory analysis of
calcium-fortified lettuce
- Syngenta seeks
nonregulated status for microbial enzyme-producing corn
September 08
ISB News Report
- Low acrylamide French fries and potato chips
- Improved drought stress tolerance in maize
- Minding your Ps and Qs at the PTO
- Using insect-resistant GM crops within IPM programs
- Online bibilography of assessment studies on GE crops
August 08
ISB News Report
- Field-evolved insect
resistance to transgenic Bt crops
- Trends in pesticide use
on transgenic vs. conventional crops
July 08
ISB News Report
- Ecological research and
risk assessment of genetically engineered crops
- Honey bees, Bt crops and
the role of meta-analysis in risk assessment
- Ethics of GE plants:
towards a better informed and balanced debate
June 08
ISB News Report
- Information Systems for
Biotechnology program to end
- Harmonizing the
non-target risk assessment for GM crops
- Can a foreign protein
improve the amino acid balance of corn?
- Transgenic wheat has
increased polyamines
- Prior art: the skeleton
in a patent's closet
May 08
ISB News Report
- Genetic engineering
approaches to improving nitrogen use efficiency
- Expressing hepatitis B
virus surface antigen in rice
- Avoiding insect
resistance to Cry toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis
April 08
ISB News Report
- The IPKb vector set:
Modular binary plasmids for cereal transformation
- Gene flow among
transgenic plants and their wild relatives: implications for
risk assessment
- Gene flow in sugar been
production fields
March 08
ISB News Report
- Parameters affecting gene
flow in oilseed rape
- Growing nonfood products
in transgenic plants
- Ds insertion lines
valuable for rice breeding
February 08
ISB News Report
- Field evidence: Bt corn and mycotoxin reduction
- Enhancing plant carotenoids via manipulation of sink strength
- Supreme Court consigns the Monsanto–McFarling litigation to
rest in peace
January 08
ISB News Report
- Genetically engineered high lysine corn
- Camelina sativa: a potential oilseed crop for biofuels
and genetically engineered products
December 07
ISB News Report
- Patent battles on and off
the court
- Towards plastid
transformation in maize
- Flavonoids for
environmental equivalence profiling of GE plants
November 07
ISB News Report
- Acting U.S. Agriculture
Secretary announces plan to improve quality compliance of
genetically engineered products
- An alternative approach
to genetically engineered alfalfa
- Genetic approach to
identifying Bt resistance genes in Heliothis virescens
- An unexpected method for
controlling corn pollen dispersal
- Non-target effects of Bt
crops database available
October 07
ISB News Report
- Maize streak virus
resistant transgenic maize: a first for Africa
- How pea phospholipase C
functions in salinity stress tolerance
- What controls vitamin C
levels in plants?
- Crop-to-crop gene flow
studies of fodder maize in the United Kingdom
September 07
ISB News Report
- Cyanobacterial flavodoxin
provides multiple stress tolerance
- Cleaning-up crop genomes
through intragenic modification
- Cultivar cultivates
disaster for soybean patent while supremes throttle patent test
- Conference: Gene flow
among transgenic plants and their wild relatives: Implications
for Risk Assessment
July 07
ISB News Report
- Selectable marker gene
excision from transgenic plants
- Reducing gossypol in
cottonseed may improve human nutrition
- Judge concerned that
alfalfa may be a little rascal - and other legal news
June 07
ISB News Report
- Gene-deletor: a new tool
to address concerns over GE crops
- Genetically engineering
folate biofortification in tomato
- Selected highlights from
the 2007 BIO International convention
May 07
ISB News Report
- Biosafety of transgenic
sorghum - A comment on Visarada and Kishore (2007)
- Environmental safety of
transgenic squash: a geostatistical analysis
- Nitrogen use efficient
canola showing early success
- Let them eat precaution:
How politics is undermining the genetic revolution in
agriculture
April 07
ISB News Report
- Identification of escaped
transgenic creeping bentgrass in Oregon
- U.S. federal courts
disapprove APHIS approval procedures
- High quality hay market
may be most impacted by removal of RR alfalfa
- Generation of marker-free
transgenic plants
March 07
ISB News Report
- Improvement of sorghum
through transgenic technology
- Feeds from genetically engineered plants —
Results and future challenges
February 07
ISB News Report
- Biosafety in a globalized
world
- Genetic transformation of
cereals mediated by agrobacterium: potential and problems
- Control of fruit flies
and the pink bollword using genetically engineered sterile flies
and worms
January 07
ISB News Report
- Risks and benefits of glyphosate-resistant crops
- Evaluation of alerginicity of genetially modified soybean
protein extract
- Production of recombinant HIV-1 antigen in transgenic tobacco
December 06
ISB News Report
- Taking aim at peaceful
coexistence
- Agbiotech evolution needs a
regulatory revolution
- Ecological impacts of genetically
engineered crops: ten years of field research and commercial cultivation
- Gene flow from GE to conventional
maize in real situations of coexistence
November 06
ISB News Report
- Pearl millet with enhanced resistance to rust and downy mildew
- Nutrigenomics among next-generation applications in ag biotechnology
- New study addresses handling GM/non-GM grain
- Wild rice
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulation of
biotechnology-derived food and feed crop plants containing
plant-incorporated protectants
- Searching for unintended compositional changes in GE potatoes
October 06
ISB News Report
- RNA interference for wheat functional genomics
- Considerations of adopting Bt seed mixture strategy for cabbabe looper
- US federal court finds an oversight in APHIS' oversight of biopharming
- Canadian company develops safflower as new source of insulin
September 06
ISB News Report
- A new concept to engineer specific transcription of transplastomic
genes
- Legislating agbiotech
- Does the ecological risk assessment (ERA) process work for GE crops?
- Mycotoxin reduction in Bt corn: Potential economic, health, and
regulatory impacts
August 06
ISB News Report
- High throughput functional genomics of perennial ryegrass
- Gene flow from GE to conventional maize using real-time PCR
- Transgenic plants that make non-transgenic pollen
- Adoption of genetically engineered crops in the U.S.
June 06
ISB News Report
- Most growers aware of, complying with Bt corn standards
- GE tomato resistant to leaf curl disease
- A nanotechnology revolution in agriculture and the food industry
May 06
ISB News Report
- 14th Annual Meeting of BIO: Conference Highlights
- Risk Assessment for Pest Resistance Transgenes
- Transgenic Plants for Spider Silk-like Protein Production
- Root Engineering: A Strategy for Agriculture in Marginal Areas of
Cultivation
- Database of the Benefits and Safety of Biotechnology
- Virginia Bioinformatics Institute to Develop Tomato Metabolite
Database
April 06
ISB News Report
- Gene flow from transgenic oilseed rape
- Protective plague vaccine produced in tobacco leaves
- Triticum aestivum L (Wheat)—An incredibly complex genetic soup
March 06
ISB News Report
- Development of rice seed based edible vaccine for allergic
immunotherapy
- Progress in molecular approaches to drought tolerance in crop plant
- Considerations of cross-fertilization between GM and non-GM maize
- Inspector general fires warning shot at APHIS
- USDA APHIS seeks comments on environmental risk assessments
February 06
ISB News Report
- Biotechnology and comparative risk
assessment
- Possible health aspects of horizontal transfer of microbial transgenes
present in genetically modified crops
- Mitigating transgene flow from crops
January 06
ISB News Report
- Risk assessment for insect resistance
transgenes
- Proteomic profiling and unintended effects in GM crops
December 05
ISB News Report
- Open-source agriculture
- A conceptual framework for the design of environmental post-market
monitoring of GM plants
- Approaches to minimize variation of transgene expression in plants
- Dextran-producing transgenic potato tubers
November 05
ISB News Report
- Found-and-lost: transgenic maize in
Oaxaca, Mexico
- Employing a composite gene flow index to numerically quantify a crop's
potential for gene flow
- Tailoring chemically-induces gene switches for research and
agriculture
- Biotechnology as a key driver for sustainable bioenergy production
October 05
ISB News Report
- Horizontal Gene Transfer: Plant vs. Bacterial Genes for
Antibiotic Resistance Scenarios—What’s The Difference?
- Engineering Broad-spectrum Disease Resistance
- Application of a Regeneration QTL Gene to Plant Transformation
- Using Transcriptional Analysis to Determine Responses to Phosphate
Deprivation
September 05
ISB News Report
- Preserving the effectiveness of Bt crops
- Engineering cytoplasmic male sterility via the chloroplast genome
- Homologous promoter use in genetic modification
- QTL detection and application to plant breeding
- Genetic improvement for tolerance to phosphorus deficiency in rice
August 05
ISB News Report
- Herbicide resistant crops may promote herbicide tolerance in
weeds
- Towards 'stacked' traits - Prospects for multi-gene manipulation in
plants
- Sustainable and durable insect pest resistance in transgenic crops
- A wide cross-tolerance of transgenic rice containing human CYP2B6 to
various classes of herbicides
- Non-agrobacterial species for gene transfer to plants
July 05
ISB News Report
- Using transgenic plants as a source of genetic diversity for
breeding greater drought tolerance into wheat
- Advances in rice biotechnology in the new millenium
- Bt10 slips into the stream of commerce
- Spurring growth in dynamic sectors: a paradigm shift in biotech
strategy and management
- Developing countries now have well-developed biotechnology programs
June 05
ISB News Report
- Association genetics and its implications for agbiotech
research
- Improving stress tolerance through energy homeostatis in plants
- A view on the GM farm scale evaluation
- NIH's fluctuating ethics policy polarizes opinion
- Spurring growth in dynamic sectors: a paradigm shift in biotech
strategy and management
May 05
ISB News Report
- Transgenic basmati rice
- Tracking plant transgenes in soil - Where do they go?
- U.S. General Accounting Office sees deficiencies in efforts to
guard agriculture from terrorism
April 05
ISB News Report
- Emerging plant biotechnologies: new bugs for old
- To carb or not to carb
- Retaining genetically engineered seed? Consider retaining a lawyer
- Monsanto vs. U.S. farmers
March 05
ISB News Report
- A workshop
on agricultural species as biomedical models
- A gene repression system in plants via chromosome remodeling by
histone deacetylases
- TILLING: harvesting functional genomics for crop improvement
- Tobacco and rice plants express insulin-like growth factor
- Unwinding after high salinity stress: development of salinity tolerant
plant without affecting yield
February 05
ISB News Report
- Release of larvicidal cry proteins in root exudates of transgenic Bt
plants
- Frequency of pollen drift in genetically engineered corn
- Assessing the benefits and risks of GE crops: evidence from the insect
resistant maize for Africa Project
- Patent challenges to agBiotech technologies in 2004
January 05
ISB News Report
- Long distance pollen-mediated gene flow from creeping bentgrass
- Genetic acclimation for freezing tolerance
- Engineered ribosomal protein limits plant resistance to mycotoxins
- Approval for genetically engineered bentgrass creeps through agency
turfs
- Symposium on biosafety of GMOs: highlights
December 04
ISB News Report
- Can Transgenic Crop Technology Benefit Biocontrol?
- Impact of Bt cotton on Bollworm Populations and Egg Parasitism
- Enhancing Stress Tolerance by Regulon Engineering of
ABA-Responsive Genes
- All-Native Plant DNA Transformation
- Silk Purse from a Sow’s Ear? Spider Silk Production in Tobacco
- Conference on Plant-made Pharmaceuticals
- The Role of Biotechnology for the Characterisation and
Conservation of Crop, Forestry, Animal and Fishery Genetic
Resources
November 04
ISB News Report
- Novel Genes for Control and Deterrence
of Sucking Insect Pests
- Designer Constructs for T-DNA and
Dissociation (Ds) Mediated Insertional Mutagenesis in Plants
- Aberrant mRNA Expression of Maize Rust Resistance Gene in Wheat and
Barley
- Biotech Bug Conference Speakers Call for Regulation and Public
Involvement
- Continued Losses Put Pressure on Monsanto Product Launch
- The Center for Food Safety Refutes Criticisms of its GM Rice Report
October 04
ISB News Report
- The Development Of The D-amino Acid Selectable Marker System
- T7 RNA Polymerase-Based Overexpression of Foreign Genes in
Plants
- HOS9 Mediated Cold Acclimation Outside the CBF Regulon
- Plant-made Pharmaceuticals: Progress and Protests
September 04
ISB News Report
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Improved Nitrogen Assimilation
using Transcription Factors
- Transgenic Plants with No Foreign
DNA
- A New Strategy for Glyphosate
Tolerant Crop Plants
- Determining the Safety of
Transgenic Insects
August 04
ISB News Report
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Enhanced Drought Tolerance in Transgenic Rice
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Regulating Plant Genes and Agbiotech Products — International Style
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India Produces Indigenous `GM Cotton'
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Molecular Marker Assisted Selection Document
July 04
ISB News Report
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Gene Flow from Transgenic Bt Corn to Non-Bt Corn Refuges
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Immunomodulation Confers Herbicide Resistance in Plants
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Transgenic Plants Produce Omega-3 and Omega-6 Fatty Acids
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