Tag Archives: marker assisted selection

Revisiting the “eat local” Idea

Posted on June 15, 2014 by argylesock

Originally posted on Thought + Food:
I just came across this review of a book called “The Locavore’s Delusion”, and yes, it is a nod to that other book, in case you were wondering! The authors of the book tried to…

Posted in food, knowledge transfer | Tagged access to food, biotechnology, climate-ready crop, flood, food, food availability, food quality, food safety, food security, food sovereignty, genetic modification, grain, grocery, local breed, local community, local variety, marker assisted selection, plant_monocot, Scuba rice, selective breeding, staple food, sustainable, trade, transport | 3 Comments

Scuba rice: biotech crop on a fast track towards release

Posted on May 25, 2014 by argylesock

A new biotech rice variety called Scuba or Swarna-Sub1 is going through field trials in India. It’s a long-grained rice (Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica) designed to be ‘climate-ready’ or ‘climate-smart’. That is, it’s designed to grow well as climates … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, food, knowledge transfer, weather and climate | Tagged Africa, Asia, backcrossing, biotechnology, breeding, climate, climate-ready crop, crop diversity, crop variety, Department for International Development, development, farmer, field trial, flood, gene, grain, International Rice Research Institute, marker assisted backcrossing, marker assisted selection, paddy field, plant_monocot, research, rice, rice Swarna, Scuba rice, seed, selective breeding, staple food, trade, weather | 6 Comments

Monsanto Admits: 1. We Don’t Need Genetic Engineering, 2. We Don’t Need Monsanto

Posted on March 26, 2014 by argylesock

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 | Leave a comment

Non-GM success stories

Posted on December 30, 2013 by argylesock

Our world is in crisis! Only genetic modification (GM, genetic engineering, GE) can save us! Yeah, right. Want examples? I do. GM Freeze is a Scottish website proudly against GM crops and foods. Here’s what it says about non-GM success … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, food, knowledge transfer, money and trade, weather and climate | Tagged biotechnology, climate, crop, food, food security, genetic modification, marker assisted selection, politics, selective breeding, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, weather | 2 Comments

Is the law about genetic modification out of date?

Posted on November 18, 2013 by argylesock

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 | 3 Comments

Update on rice after Haiyan

Posted on November 14, 2013 by argylesock

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) have published a report about the damage Typoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda) did to farming. Here it is. Filipino farmers grow rice (Oryza sativa) twice each year: … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, food, weather and climate | Tagged Asia, biotechnology, breeding, climate-ready crop, crop, crop variety, development, food, genetic modification, grain, Green Revolution, marker assisted selection, plant_monocot, rice, selective breeding, staple food | 1 Comment

Wickedness, Mr Paterson?

Posted on October 15, 2013 by argylesock

Here in Britain our Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, is a big fan of genetically modified (GM, genetically engineered, GE) crops. For example, he’s in favour of Golden Rice (GR). GR is a GM crop being developed and promoted as a … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, human health, knowledge transfer, money and trade | Tagged academia, biofortification, biotechnology, breeding, crop, crop variety, genetic modification, Golden Rice, grain, human, knowledge, marker assisted selection, nutrition, Paterson_Owen, plant_monocot, politics, rice, selective breeding, staple food, Syngenta, trade, Vitamin A | Leave a comment

Scientific truth about agri biotechnology

Posted on September 19, 2013 by argylesock

Originally posted on Agriculture Information Bank:
NASIR BUTT Introduction of new technologies has always been resisted in any field by the people who are the beneficiaries of the status-quo and those afraid of any new technology. Same thing is happening…

Posted in agriculture, knowledge transfer | Tagged biotechnology, breeding, crop, crop variety, development, genetic modification, marker assisted selection, mutation breeding, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, selective breeding | 1 Comment

Getting to the grist about GM (part 3)

Posted on July 30, 2013 by argylesock

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 agriculture, knowledge transfer | Tagged academia, biotechnology, breeding, crop, crop variety, development, DNA, genetic modification, grain, Johnson_Nathanael, marker assisted selection, mutagenesis, mutation breeding, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, research, rice | Leave a comment

GMO Myths and Truths

Posted on July 30, 2013 by argylesock

Michael Antoniou, Claire Robinson and John Fagan of the not-for-profit Earth Open Source are two scientists and a journalist. They’re not very impressed with genetic modification (GM, also called genetic engineering or GE) as a tool for feeding the world. … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, food, knowledge transfer | Tagged biotechnology, breeding, crop, crop variety, food, genetic modification, knowledge, marker assisted selection, mutagenesis, mutation breeding, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, selective breeding | 1 Comment