China’s Agricultural Biotechnology Information Center (CABIC) has just released “Crop Biotech Update in China”, a summary of current developments in China’s agri-biotech scene, written in English and composed for the global audience. Housed at the China National Center for Biotechnology Development (CNCBD), and working in cooperation with ISAAA, the CABIC will deliver the update every quarter.

In the latest update, researchers report, among others, that significant headway has been made in breeding super hybrid rice. They also find a new cotton resistant to glyphosate and cotton bollworm, and write that a gene has allowed maize seeds to produce more lysine and protein than its conventional counterparts. More news and research are available in the quarterly report itself, and are presented as short news bulletins, with links to the full articles.

The latest issue is now available at http://www.isaaa.org/kc.

To find out more about CABIC, visit their Mandarin website at http://www.cncbd.org.cn/nyzhk/pingjia/pingjia.html. You may also email cabic@cncbd.org.cn for more information.

Source: CropBiotech Update