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Transgenic plants have been engineered to possess several desirable traits, such as resistance to pests, herbicides, or harsh environmental conditions, improved product shelf life, and increased nutritional value. Since the first commercial cultivation of genetically modified plants in 1996, they have been modified to be tolerant to the herbicides glufosinate and glyphosate, to be resistant to virus damage as in Ringspot virus-resistant GM papaya, grown in Hawaii, and to produce the Bt toxin, an insecticide that is non-toxic to mammals.
Most GM crops grown today have been modified with "input traits", which provide benefits mainly to farmers. The GM oilseed crops on the market today offer improved oil profiles for processing or healthier edible oils. The GM crops in development offer a wider array of environmental and consumer benefits such as nutritional enhancement, drought and stress tolerance. GM plants are being developed by both private companies and public research institutions such as CIMMYT, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre. Other examples include a genetically modified sweet potato, enhanced with protein and other nutrients, while golden rice, developed by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), has been discussed as a possible cure for Vitamin A deficiency.
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Yongye International Provides Update on Status of Proposed Go Private Offer
BEIJING, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Yongye International, Inc. (NASDAQ: YONG) ("Yongye" or the "Company"), a leading developer, manufacturer, and distributor of crop nutrient p...
Enlist Duo™ Herbicide Approved for Use in Canada
Enlist Traits Previously Approved; Both Components of Innovative Enlist System Now in Place for Canada Dow AgroSciences LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical...
Hemp, Inc. Signs Letter of Intent with One of China's Largest Agricultural Producers, Yasheng Group
NEW YORK, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hemp, Inc. (OTC: HEMP) is pleased to announce an agreement with the Yasheng Group (OTC:HERB), one of China's largest agricultural producers. The sign...
Ag Energy Coalition Applauds Senate Agriculture Committee Passage of Farm Bill Legislation
The Agriculture Energy Coalition today thanked Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and other members of the Senate Agriculture Committee for passing legisl...
Agricen to Host New Webinar, “Getting the Most Out of Your Sidedress Program”
Best Sidedress Practices Will Be Explored for Critical Growing Season Agricen, an agricultural technology company delivering applied, biochemical-based solutions for efficient...
First patent issues on TAL effector technology
EVANSTON, Ill., May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The Two Blades Foundation (2Blades), a not-for-profit organization focused on the development and deployment of durable disease resistance for agric...
As part of its growing presence in key emerging markets, GfK is staking a larger claim to agriculture and animal health research in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. The world’s #...
Yongye International Announces First Quarter 2013 Financial Results
BEIJING, May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Yongye International, Inc. (NASDAQ: YONG), ("Yongye" or the "Company") a leading developer, manufacturer, and distributor of crop nutrient products in t...
Metabolism and Environmental Degradation Studies Come Under Scrutiny at New International Conference
Leatherhead, 9 May: Smithers Viscient’s inaugural conference ‘Advances in Metabolism & Environmental Degradation Science’ will put the spotlight on current practice in th...
Italian Sacom Green Biotech Enters AIM -- Italian Stock Exchange Market
LARINO, Italy, May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 24th, 2013 Sacom SpA debuted on Italian AIM market– the alternative capital market of Italian Stock Exchange for small and medium-sized Italia...
Companies
Dow AgroSciences LLC, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, is a top-tier agricultural company providing innovative agrochemical and biotechnology solutions globally. The compan...
Critical Path Services, LLC (CPS)
CPS is a contract research organization that offers GLP-compliant laboratory analysis, analytical consulting, technical writing, and dossier services to the crop protection, pharm...
Phototron Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: PHOT) designs and manufactures cutting-edge indoor mini-greenhouses capable of growing herbs, vegetables, flowers, fruits and terrestrial plants s...
American Vanguard Corporation is a diversified specialty and agricultural products company that develops and markets products for crop protection and management, turf and ornament...
Morflora develops generic and non-transgenic trait delivery solutions into plants, to protect them from a wide variety of diseases, as well as introduce new desired traits for pla...
Proterro is the only company that makes sucrose instead of extracting it from crops. Proterro combines its core, patented âmicroorganism technologyâ with its patent-pend...
Founded in 1992, Metabolix, Inc. is an innovation-driven bioscience company focused on providing sustainable solutions for the worldâs needs for plastics, chemicals and energ...
The Bayer USA Foundation is an endowed 501(c)(3) entity and is the primary source of Bayer Corporationâs philanthropy in the United States. With a programmatic focus on the e...
National Center for Genome Resources
The National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a non-profit research institution dedicated to improving human health and nutrition through collaborative research at the in...
Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Arysta LifeScience is the worldâs largest privately held crop protection and life science company with 2009 revenues of JPY112 billion (US$1.2...
Clinical Trials
Retinol Equivalence of Plant Carotenoids in Children
To determine vitamin A value of beta-carotene in oil capsule, spinach, and golden rice. The experiments will be conducted in children (ages 7-9) with/without adequate vitamin A nutrition....
Trace elements, bioactive secondary metabolites and vitamins are among the most important quality parameters in plants. Yet, very little information is available on their content, bioavail...
PubMed Articles
Most of the world's coffee production originates from Coffea arabica, an allotetraploid species with low genetic diversity and for which few genomic resources are available. Genomic libraries with lar...
Application of rhizospheric fungi is an effective and environmentally friendly method of improving plant growth and controlling many plant diseases. The current study was aimed to identify phytohormon...
Genome-wide SNP discovery in mungbean by Illumina HiSeq.
Mungbean [Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek], a self-pollinated diploid plant with 2n = 22 chromosomes, is an important legume crop with a high-quality amino acid profile. Sequence variation at the whole-g...
Mapping of two suppressors of OVATE (sov) loci in tomato.
Tomato fruit shape varies significantly in the cultivated germplasm. To a large extent, this variation can be explained by four genes including OVATE. While most varieties with the OVATE mutation bear...
Whole Genome Profiling Physical Map and Ancestral Annotation of Tobacco Hicks Broadleaf.
Genomics-based breeding of economically important crops such as banana, coffee, cotton, potato, tobacco and wheat is often hampered by genome size, polyploidy and high repeat content. We adapted the s...
A key objective for sustainable agriculture and forestry is to breed plants with both high carbon gain and water-use efficiency (WUE). At the level of leaf physiology, this implies increasing net phot...
Transcriptional responses of maize seedling root to phosphorus starvation.
Maize (Zea mays) is the most widely cultivated crop around the world, however, it is commonly affected by phosphate (Pi) deficiency and the underlying molecular basis of responses mechanism is still u...
Identification and characterisation of maize microRNAs involved in developing ears.
In maize, kernel row number trait is determined during the period when spikelet pair meristems (SPMs) give rise to spikelet meristems (SMs). Expression levels of many genes change during this period d...
Population genetics of Lymnaea stagnalis experimentally exposed to cocktails of pesticides.
Freshwater invertebrates may be regularly exposed to pesticides in agricultural landscapes, as water bodies such as ditches and ponds are the final recipient of many chemicals, through various transfe...
The use of pesticides may lead to environmental problems, such as surface water pollution, with a risk for aquatic organisms. In the present study, a typical vineyard river of western Switzerland was...
Videos
Looking Back: Environmental Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops
A world-renowned expert on the ecological impacts and management of genetically engineered crops, University of Arizona professor Yves Carrière presented the...
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Burkholderia Cepacia Complex
A group of phenotypically similar but genotypically distinct species (genomovars) in the genus BURKHOLDERIA. They are found in water, soil, and the rhizosphere of crop plants. They can act as opportunistic human pathogens and as plant growth promoting and biocontrol agents.
Xanthomonas Vesicatoria
A species of gram-negative bacteria, in the genus XANTHOMONAS, causing disease in TOMATO and pepper crops.
Seed Storage Proteins
One or more types of plant seed proteins providing the large amounts of AMINO ACIDS utilized in GERMINATION and SEEDLING growth. As seeds are the major food source from AGRICULTURAL CROPS, seed storage proteins are a major source of DIETARY PROTEINS.
Secale Cereale
A hardy grain crop, rye, grown in northern climates. It is the most frequent host to ergot (CLAVICEPS), the toxic fungus. Its hybrid with TRITICUM is TRITICALE, another grain.
Stomatitis, Aphthous
A recurrent disease of the oral mucosa of unknown etiology. It is characterized by small white ulcerative lesions, single or multiple, round or oval. Two to eight crops of lesions occur per year, lasting for 7 to 14 days and then heal without scarring. (From Jablonski's Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992, p742)
