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Tag Archives: fatty acid
A GM soya for Europe?
A new soya (soybean, Glycine max) has been approved for growing in Europe. It’s a genetically modified (GM, genetically engineered) crop called MON87769 from the chemical and biotech giant Monsanto. This new crop has been engineered to adjust the fatty … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, knowledge transfer
Tagged BASF, Bayer, biotechnology, commodity crop, Dow, DuPont, Europe, European Food Safety Authority, fatty acid, feed, food, genetic modification, law, legume, Monsanto, plant_dicot, potato, potato Amflora, soya, soya DAS-44406-6, soya MON87769, Syngenta
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Paterson’s curse: rival for a GM crop?
Scientists asked human volunteers to take oil from the purple viper’s bugloss (Paterson’s curse, Echium plantagineum). The team, led by Katrin Kuhnt at Friedrich Schiller University, hoped that this plant oil would be a good substitute for fish oil in … Continue reading
Feeding vegetable oils to farmed salmon
Many fish farmers in temperate climates raise Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Salmon are carnivores, fed pellets made from (among other things) wild fish. Wild fish are getting scarcer so a team of scientists, led by Erling-Olaf Koppang at the Norwegian … Continue reading
Posted in fish, knowledge transfer
Tagged aquaculture, Atlantic salmon, biotechnology, canola, crop, fatty acid, feed, finfish, fish oil, fishery, fishmeal, genetic modification, hunting, nutrition, oilseed, olive, Omega Camelina, plant_dicot, rapeseed, research, soya, sustainable, vertebrate, veterinary, wildlife
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GM oilseeds for Britain?
This year in Britain, we heard there’d be no GM (genetically modified, genetically engineered, biotech) crops. It didn’t last. A new GM crop might soon be field-tested here. Eventually this crop might reduce pressure on overfished seas. A land plant … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, fish, human health, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged Agrobacterium tumefaciens, algaculture, algae, aquaculture, Atlantic salmon, bioaccumulation, biotechnology, blue mussel, brassica, brown crab, brown trout, butternut squash, conservation, crop, false flax, fat, fatty acid, feed, finfish, fishery, fishing, flax, genetic modification, grocery, hemp, hunting, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, invertebrate, linseed, nut, nutrition, oilseed, oilseed Omega Camelina, oyster, pecan, plant_dicot, rainbow trout, research, sea, seed, skipjack tuna, sustainable, trade, value-added, vertebrate, wild food
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