GMOs for African Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities
Workshop proceedings report (July 2010)
 

Facilitating Conservation Farming Practices and Enhancing Environmental Sustainability with Agricultural Biotechnology
The Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) 2010
 

European Union contemplates redefining GM
Seed World magazine
February 2010
 

Research report: Novel Plant Breeding Techniques
Commission on Genetic Modification, The Netherlands
This report describes consequences of new plant breeding techniques for the environment and food and feed safety. The new plant breeding techniques considered in this report share as common feature that they all make use of a genetic modification step, somewhere in the production of improved plant lines. The aim of this genetic modification is to test plants for specific characteristics, to facilitate breeding, to add genes or alleles that have been isolated from the same species or to make small changes to native genes. (Full report)
December 2009
 

Biological machines? Anticipating developments in synthetic biology 
Commission on Genetic Modification, The Netherlands
Synthetic biology is a new research field that seeks to modify existing organisms to perform useful functions and to design and synthesise artificial genes and complete biological systems. By unravelling the functioning of living cells step by step and using this knowledge to construct artificial cell components, researchers hope eventually to be able to create a completely artificial cell. This could be considered to be a living machine. Synthetic biology can therefore be described as a further stage in the development of genetic modification. It is no surprise that the emergence of synthetic biology has reignited the cycle of public debate that flared up during the initial stages of genetic modification. (Full report)
September 2008
 

A Tale of Two Futures for Seed Biotechnology
Dr. Kent Bradford, Seed Biotechnology Center, University of California, Davis
Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities opens with the famous line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The same can be said of seed biotechnology, depending upon your perspective.
May 2008
 

No es posible imaginar el progreso en medicina y agricultura sin la biotecnología
Paul Christou, Universidad de Lleida, España
El sida es una enfermedad que actualmente afecta a unos 33 millones de personas en todo el mundo. Cada día, cerca de 5.700 fallecen a causa de esta enfermedad y al menos otras 7.000 se infectan con el virus, la mayoría de ellas en países subdesarrollados o en vías de desarrollo.
May 2008
 

Marker-assisted breeding comes of age
Charles Pick, DNA LandMarks Inc. 
August 2006
 

Seed Biotechnology Center provides input on international biotechnology regulations
Allen Van Deynze, Seed Biotechnology Center, University of California Davis
June 2006
 

Fruits of biotechnology struggle to emerge
California Agriculture, Volume 58, Number 2
April-June 2004