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Tag Archives: DNA
Monsanto Admits: 1. We Don’t Need Genetic Engineering, 2. We Don’t Need Monsanto
Originally posted on Volatility:
> Recently Wired magazine ran a Monsanto infomercial touting its alleged change of strategic course on vegetables. Monsanto, through its subsidiaries Seminis and others, is selling a line of high-end conventional vegetables dolled up as some kind of high-tech breakthrough. Contrary…
Posted in agriculture, horticulture, human health, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged allergy, America, Asia, biofortification, biotechnology, brassica, breeding, broccoli, Bt crop, commodity crop, corn, cotton, crop, crop variety, DNA, drought, Europe, evolution, farmer, feed, fruit, fruit variety, genetic modification, germplasm, glucoraphanin, glyphosate, Golden Rice, grain, grocery, herbicide, herbicide resistance, history, human, insecticide, knowledge, label, lettuce, maize, marker assisted selection, melon, Monsanto, nitrogen, nutrition, onion, organic, pepper, pesticide, pesticide resistance, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, potato, research, rice, Roundup, Roundup Ready crop, salt, seed, selective breeding, Seminis, soya, tomato, trade, transport, vegetable, vegetable variety, watermelon, weed, wild vegetable
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Is the law about genetic modification out of date?
In the United States, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) regulates genetically modified (GM, genetically engineered, GE) crops and livestock. Heidi Ledford at Nature tells us about loopholes which some researchers now use to avoid the long, costly … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged Agrobacterium tumefaciens, America, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, bacterium, biotechnology, breeding, crop, crop variety, development, DNA, gene gun, genetic modification, law, livestock, marker assisted selection, mutation breeding, pathogen, pest, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, protoplast, selective breeding, trade, transformation
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New strategy required for delaying insect resistance to Bt crops
arglesock says… We knew that pests would evolve resistance to Bt toxin. I wrote recently about the African maize stalk borer (Busseola fusca) evolving resistance that’s inherited as a dominant trait, making it harder for farmers to control. If I … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture
Tagged arthropod, biotechnology, Bt crop, Bt toxin, corn, crop, DNA, evolution, genetic modification, insect, insecticide, insecticide resistance, integrated pest management, lepidopteran, maize, Monsanto, moth, pest, pesticide, pesticide resistance, plant_monocot, stalk borer
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Pest evolves better resistance to insecticidal GM crops
A few days ago I reblogged a post about genetically modified (GM, also called genetically engineered, GE) crops. I said that in my opinion, my fellow blogger Nasir Butt at Agriculture Information Bank sounds a little bit naïve in that … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, knowledge transfer
Tagged arthropod, biotechnology, Bt crop, Bt toxin, corn, DNA, evolution, gene, genetic modification, grain, insect, insecticide, insecticide resistance, knowledge, lepidopteran, maize, millet, Monsanto, moth, pearl millet, pest, pesticide, pesticide resistance, plant_monocot, research, sorghum, stalk borer, staple food
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Conventional Plant Breeding
Originally posted on Agriculture Information Bank:
Since the practice of agriculture began, eight to ten thousand years ago, farmers have been altering the genetic makeup of the crops they grow. Early farmers selected the best looking plants and seeds and…
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Tagged biotechnology, breeding, crop, crop variety, DNA, law, mutagenesis, mutation, mutation breeding, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, seed, selective breeding
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Facebook game Fraxinus targeted at beating ash dieback
If you use Facebook you could help with research into ash dieback disease. Yes really, anybody online can do this. Crowdsourcing is a new way of doing science, to me, but here are people who believe it can work. Here … Continue reading
Posted in ecology
Tagged ash, ash dieback disease, Chalara fraxinea, data, disease, DNA, emerging disease, Europe, fungus, genome, pathogen, plant_dicot, research, technology, tree
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Getting to the grist about GM (part 4)
My fellow blogger applpy at Thought + Food draws attention to a series of articles about genetic modification. That’s GM, also called genetic engineering or GE. It’s a kind of biotechnology. These articles (see my ‘biotechnology’ tag) are by Nathanael … Continue reading
Posted in knowledge transfer
Tagged biosafety, biotechnology, crop, crop variety, development, DNA, food safety, genetic modification, Johnson_Nathanael, knowledge, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, research, RNA
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Getting to the grist about GM (part 3)
My fellow blogger applpy at Thought + Food draws attention to a series of articles about genetic modification. That’s GM, also called genetic engineering or GE. It’s a kind of biotechnology. These articles (see my ‘biotechnology’ tag) are by Nathanael … Continue reading
It’s not natural! Intensive farming, synthetic food and synthetic genes
Is it natural? Whatever ‘it’ might be. We live in a world where genes are synthesised routinely and synthetic food isn’t far away. I don’t think there’s much point even asking about ‘natural’ any more. The US Supreme Court has … Continue reading
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Tagged biotechnology, DNA, farm, food, food quality, gene, genetic modification, intensive, laboratory, law, livestock, meat, research, welfare
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Roundup Ready Wheat
Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
It was reported last week that genetically modified wheat never approved for sale had been discovered in a farmer’s field in Oregon. The wheat had been developed by Monsanto to express glyphosate resistance (Roundup…
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Tagged biotechnology, brassica, canola, DNA, escaping transgene, gene, genetic modification, gluphosinate, glyphosate, grain, herbicide, herbicide resistance, liberty weedkiller, Monsanto, oilseed, pesticide, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, rapeseed, Roundup, Roundup Ready crop, weed, wheat
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