Botany in the News

MARCH, 2008

Uganda: Virus Lowers Potato Yields in Kabale
All Africa – 03/12/2008, 03:39 am
Aidah Nanyonjo Kampala A rampant potato disease reported in Kabale district poses a danger to people's livelihood. Dr Andrew Kiggundu, a research officer at the National Agricultural Laboratory Research Institute, Kawanda, says the virus affects the quality and quantity of the crop.

Save agency from bean counters
Philadelphia Inquirer – 03/12/2008, 03:36 am
New Jersey's rich and active agriculture in one of the country's urban states sets us apart. Our nearly one million acres of fields, forests, horse pastures and nurseries have truly made New Jersey a garden oasis between major metropolitan areas.

New Twist On Life's Power Source
SpaceDaily – 03/12/2008, 02:59 am
During normal photosynthesis, light energy splits water molecules. This releases oxygen and provides electrons which are then used to "fix" carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and manufacture energy-rich molecules, such as sugars.

Insecticide Combo Delivers Knockout Punch
Science Daily – 03/12/2008, 02:33 am
A cocktail of insecticides containing a plant protein and a common insecticide may be more lethal to crop pests than either ingredient used alone, according to biologists.

Startling Discovery About Photosynthesis: Many Marine Microorganism Skip Carbon Dioxide And Oxygen Step
Science Daily – 03/12/2008, 02:32 am
A startling discovery by scientists at the Carnegie Institution puts a new twist on photosynthesis, arguably the most important biological process on Earth.

The Alternatives for Tobacco Farmers
RedOrbit – 03/12/2008, 01:57 am
WHEN the Asean Free Trade Area takes effect in 2010, Malaysia will have to reduce duties on tobacco imports. Local growers, who are less competitive, may have to explore alternative crops or seek new uses for the crop.

Shangri La gardens are special asset for Southeast Texas
Beumont Enterprise – 03/12/2008, 01:22 am
Some people simply don't appreciate attractions where they live - like New Yorkers who aren't impressed with the Statue of Liberty. In their minds, it's close and it's always been there, so it can't be that interesting.

Some Organisms Break the Rules of Photosynthesis
Red Orbit – 03/12/2008, 01:11 am
A startling discovery by scientists at the Carnegie Institution puts a new twist on photosynthesis, arguably the most important biological process on Earth.

Secret life of plants: They take sun, water and air and start a chain reaction of life
Greater Milwaukee Today – 03/11/2008, 20:27 pm
Some plants, such as the pineapple, encase seeds in sweet flesh. We benefit from the fruits of those efforts. Stand under a tree on a summer day and look up at the emerald-green leaves with the sun shining through them.

CBD agricultural biodiversity discussions in danger by Patrick Mulvany
Third World Network – 03/11/2008, 20:24 pm
The thirteenth meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversitys (CBD) Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) was held in Rome from 18-22 February 2008 and discussed the issue of agricultural biodiversity.

Ocean desserts
Frogblog – 03/11/2008, 19:52 pm
According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) huge dessert like areas in the world’s oceans have expanding dramatically in the last decade.

Famous bur oak tree gets pampered
Columbia Missourian – 03/11/2008, 19:51 pm
Mike Sestric is elevated into the bur oak tree in McBaine, known to many simply as the 'big tree,' while Will Branch directs him from below. The men and their co-workers worked on the tree Tuesday by trimming branches and taking soil samples from around the tree's base.

UT Institute of Agriculture appoints new dean of research
Columbia Daily Herald – 03/11/2008, 19:33 pm
KNOXVILLE The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has named Dr. William F. Brown dean for research and director of the Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station.

Unwelcome additions
Irish Times – 03/11/2008, 18:54 pm
THE EU Commission is conducting a survey on public attitudes to invasive species that threaten biodiversity, be they fish, animal, shellfish or plant, in an effort to agree Europe-wide measures for their control.

Univ of MD Researchers Find New Bacterium to Accelerate Ethanol Production
Agri Marketing – 03/11/2008, 16:07 pm
The secret to making an inexpensive substitute to gasoline may come from a bacterium found eating marsh grass in the Chesapeake Bay.

Building a smart tree
CBC – 03/11/2008, 15:39 pm
Nova Scotia has taken on one of the most aggravating issues facing consumers: why do Christmas trees lose their needles? The government has allocated $250,000 to the provincial to get to the root of the prickly problem.

New twist on life's power source
EurekAlert! – 03/11/2008, 15:29 pm
Stanford, CA - A startling discovery by scientists at the Carnegie Institution puts a new twist on photosynthesis, arguably the most important biological process on Earth.

Co-operation to protect nature
Turkmenistan: the golden age (EN) – 03/11/2008, 15:33 pm
Ashgabat hosts the international workshop Preservation of Biological Diversity through the Biospheric Reserves and the World Natural Heritage Sites in the Arid Areas of the Region and the Karakum Desert.

'Earth: The Sequel' touts carbon cap as cure for global warming
Los Angeles Times – 03/11/2008, 13:25 pm
Thirty years ago, in the lakes and forests of the eastern United States, scientists noted a mysterious decline in plant and animal life. They soon pinpointed the culprit: Pollution was acidifying rain and snow.

The Killer Weed
Softpedia – 03/11/2008, 12:58 pm
Over 50 tropical and subtropical areas (20, only in Africa) are infested today by the beautiful water hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes), originating in the Amazon basin.

Search for Nutrients
AllAfrica.com – 03/11/2008, 09:52 am
Will sorghum find its way back to the dining tables in East Africa? A new research project currently in progress aims to do that through the use of the controversial modification technology.

IAPT: The International Association For Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) Awards The Prestigious Stafleu Medal To Dr Charlie Javis
Individual.com – 03/11/2008, 12:48 pm
The International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) is delighted to announce that its triennially-awarded Stafleu Medal, "for an excellent publication dealing with historical, bibliographic and/or nomenclatural aspects of plant systematics", has been awarded to Order out of Chaos: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types, by Dr Charlie Jarvis.

Invention Gives Hope for Advances in BioFuel Production
RedOrbit – 03/11/2008, 12:07 pm
University of Maryland research that started with bacteria from the Chesapeake Bay has led to a process that may be able to convert large volumes of all kinds of plant products, from leftover brewer's mash to paper trash, into ethanol and other biofuel alternatives to gasoline.

Cameroon: Seed Production Programme Prioritises Investment
All Africa – 03/11/2008, 11:25 am
The year 2008 is expected to witness a relative increase in investment in seed production with special focus on laboratory equipment, laboratory analyses centres and transportation means for agents in charge of seed certification.

Depending on Nature: Ecosystem Services for Human Livelihoods
Red Orbit – 03/11/2008, 10:47 am
A new paradigm is emerging in the world of environmental conservation. Conservationists have traditionally spoken of conserving the building blocks of nature-genes, species, and ecosystems, along with the air, water, and land with which these interact.

Garlic and onion industry targets white rot cure
Checkbiotech – 03/11/2008, 08:22 am
The California garlic and onion industry is ramping up its campaign against white rot, a devastating, worldwide, fungal disease often called the AIDS of allium crops.

DuPont Sees Large Growth Opportunities for Seed Business in Eastern Europe
Biobased Information Systems – 03/10/2008, 20:36 pm
Speaking at the Credit Suisse 2008 Global Agrochemicals Conference, DuPont Vice President and General Manager and Pioneer Hi-Bred President Paul Schickler said DuPont business Pioneer Hi-Bred is well positioned to serve the vast agricultural opportunity in Eastern Europe.

New process to convert plants products
Yahoo! India – 03/11/2008, 06:04 am
Researchers have developed a process that would be able to convert large volumes of all kinds of plant products into ethanol and other biofuel alternatives to gasoline.

Carbon cap touted as cure for global warming
Los Angeles Times – 03/11/2008, 03:41 am
THIRTY years ago, in the lakes and forests of the eastern United States, scientists noted a mysterious decline in plant and animal life. They soon pinpointed the culprit: Pollution was acidifying rain and snow.

Stop the Mutants!
The New York Times – 03/11/2008, 01:04 am
This week, I’m going to do an impossible experiment. I’m going to wave a magic wand and reduce the mutation rate to zero, instantly, in all species, and forever.

Plant Genetic Resources Bank to be Set up in Kyrgyzstan
Yahoo Asia - Food & Tobacco News – 03/10/2008, 22:44 pm
BISHKEK, March 10 Asia Pulse - A proposal to establish a bank of plant genetic resources in Kyrgyzstan has been outlined by representatives of the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) to the country's Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Processing Industry.

EFSA criticised for 'flawed' botanical methods
Food Production Daily – 03/10/2008, 17:36 pm
- Industry groups have criticised a European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) working group over the 'medicinal approach' being favoured for regulating botanical supplements.

Newly Defined Signaling Pathway Could Mean Better Biofuel Sources
SpaceDaily – 03/10/2008, 22:20 pm
A Purdue research team is studying plant growth and cell wall development. By investigating plant cells at the molecular level, they may be able to design plants that are better sources of alternative transportation fuels.

Traditional medicine practitioners and healers worldwide meet on HIV and AIDS
Business Ghana – 03/10/2008, 22:10 pm
Ghana is developing policy guidelines for the handling of genetic resources and traditional knowledge, Dr Gladys Ashitey, a Deputy Minister of Health said.

Virus lowers potato yields in Kabale
The New Vision – 03/10/2008, 21:18 pm
A rampant potato disease reported in Kabale district poses a danger to people’s livelihood. Dr Andrew Kiggundu, a research officer at the National Agricultural Laboratory Research Institute, Kawanda, says the virus affects the quality and quantity of the crop.

Top horticulturalist lists his 10 favourite public gardens in Canada
Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal – 03/10/2008, 20:00 pm
TORONTO - With a 'phenomenal rose garden' featuring 54 rose beds, the Niagara Parks Botanical Gardens are among a list of floral attractions highlighted by Canadian Geographic Travel magazine.

Killer algae lurks in ocean
The Hobart Mercury – 03/10/2008, 20:00 pm
FISH-killing, red-tide-causing algae have been discovered in the Southern Ocean by University of Tasmania scientists.

Wheat breeding WA style
Get Farming – 03/10/2008, 19:42 pm
Wheat, Australia’s major grain crop, is the product of thousands of years of human intervention in the form of selection and breeding. WA typically produces 40 per cent of the national wheat crop and of this approximately 95 per cent is sold overseas, mostly to the Asian and Middle Eastern markets, so it’s important to determine and meet market needs.

Food follows function
The Age – 03/10/2008, 14:39 pm
Scientists are altering food to save us from diseases. ROBERT WALTERS' entry to the world of functional food could barely have been more brutal.

Singapore Garden Festival the Premiere International Garden and Flower Show in the Tropics
Scoop Asia – 03/10/2008, 13:49 pm
The Singapore Garden Festival, the first garden show in the tropics to bring together and showcase creations from the world’s top award-winning garden and floral designers under one roof, will return from the 25 July to 1 August 2008 at Singapore’s Suntec Convention Centre, daily from 10am to 10pm.

Don't hate cauliflower just because.....
Tribune Chronicle – 03/10/2008, 13:21 pm
ont hate cauliflower just because its white' <--TO Email REQUIRED! <--FROM Email REQUIRED! Lately there has been a lot of talk about banning white foods from the American diet.

Horizontal Gene Transfer from GMOs Does Happen
Institute of Sciences in Society – 03/10/2008, 12:09 pm
Recent evidence confirms that transgenic DNA does jump species to bacteria and even plant and animals, as some of us had predicted Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins.

Africa Must Resist Terminator Technologies
AllAfrica.com – 03/10/2008, 09:32 am
African countries must resist pressure from powerful agro-business multinationals to introduce terminator technologies in the agricultural sector as this has serious implications on biodiversity, the environment and the livelihoods of farmers on the continent.

DuPont expects rapid growth in Eastern European market
Individual.com – 03/10/2008, 11:38 am
DuPont Monday forecast "rapid expansion" in the Eastern European market because of its Pioneer Hi-Bred business. Pioneer is a developer of plant genetics products.

Surinder Sud: From bollworms to mealy bugs
Business Standard – 03/10/2008, 11:26 am
Thanks to pesticide usage falling with Bt cotton, another pest is assuming menacing proportions. Woes of the cotton growers seem to be unending. While the threat of annihilation of their crops from the dreaded American Bollworm has abated thanks largely to the availability of pest-protected transgenic Bt-cotton hybrids, another pest is threatening to become as menacing as the bollworm.

Fossil finders: Couple makes a living digging in southwest Wyo
Casper Star Tribune – 03/10/2008, 09:36 am
KEMMERER -- Fossil hunter Bonnie Finney says there's no feeling in the world like cracking open a slab of 50 million-year-old rock and finding a fish or bird fossil inside.

Newly defined signaling pathway could mean better biofuel sources
Bright Surf – 03/10/2008, 09:11 am
A newly defined biochemical pathway in plants may provide the scientific tools to design plants that will yield larger quantities of alternative transportation fuels than currently can be produced, according to Purdue University researchers.

BASF Delays Gene-Modified Potato Crop, Blames EU for Inaction
Bloomberg – 03/10/2008, 06:47 am
BASF SE, the world's largest chemicals maker, postponed cultivation of the genetically modified Amflora potato to at least next year after the European Commission failed to rule on its approval.

Plants warm up to climate change
Patriot-News – 03/10/2008, 07:27 am
The yellow-flowered weeds are one of many plant species in our region showing reactions to climate change by budding earlier each year. On average, the point of first blooming and budding for many species in the Northern Hemisphere is now seven days earlier than the historical average, according to a study by Mark D. Schwartz, a geography professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and David Wolfe, a professor of plant ecology at Cornell University.

Mexico farmers quietly plant banned GM corn
Washington Post – 03/10/2008, 04:11 am
In the dry state of Chihuahua, south of the Texas border, 68-year-old Amado Trevizo became an accidental outlaw last year when his son planted 10 sacks of seeds of GM corn, banned in Mexico.

Harper: Revive the plant science class
Chicago Daily Herald – 03/10/2008, 03:47 am
The Arlington Heights Garden Club was disappointed with the recent decision to discontinue the plant science technology program at Harper College. In the past, our club has provided scholarships to students enrolled in this program.

GM plants to be better for the environment
Checkbiotech – 03/10/2008, 03:10 am
In their laboratory at the techcenter@UMBC incubator, the home of their new company, Plant Sensory Systems, the husband-and-wife team is genetically engineering plants to be better for the environment.

As biotech crops span globe, backers cheer growth
Checkbiotech – 03/10/2008, 01:52 am
Debate over the risk and benefits of such crops, which use genes from other plants and other organisms to effect special traits, still rages in many nations.

Plant toxin studied to determine how it attacks human cells
The Hindu – 03/10/2008, 01:38 am
A powerful plant toxin ricin, widely feared for its bioterrorism potential, may one day be tamed using findings about how the toxin attacks cells, researchers say.

Bloom boom expected in deserts
Deseret Morning News – 03/10/2008, 01:08 am
RED ROCK CANYON, Nev. — The vistas in this land of desert and rock feature deep canyons and striated rock formations. But the most impressive sight is yet to come.

Oregon's Parkland Grows
Red Orbit – 03/04/2008, 15:01 pm
Near the California border, cone-shaped Eight Dollar Mountain is one of the most important botanical hot spots in Oregon. Of the 3,370 plant species in the state, nearly half are found in the Klamath and Siskiyou mountain region.

Scientists gather to challenge Gore, U.N.
World Net Daily – 03/04/2008, 14:57 pm
Global warming is a natural process, not likely the result of human activities, argued more than 100 internationally prominent environmental scientists in papers presented at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, which concluded in New York City today.

European scientists test plant growth in outer space [Date: 2008-03-04] The first experiment inside the European Columbus laboratory has got underway to investigate whether plants could grow in outer s... read more
Cordis – 03/04/2008, 14:45 pm
The first experiment inside the European Columbus laboratory has got underway to investigate whether plants could grow in outer space.

USDA, DOE to Invest up to $18.4 million for Biomass Research
News Blaze – 03/04/2008, 14:43 pm
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Ed Schafer and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel Bodman today announced that combined, USDA and DOE will invest up to $18.

Pioneer Hi-Bred Innovation to Increase Corn Yields, Simplify Compliance
KTIC 840 Rural Radio – 03/04/2008, 12:48 pm
DuPont business Pioneer Hi-Bred introduced the first 'in-the-bag' seed refuge system to farmers during Commodity Classic, the industry's premier agricultural trade show and convention.

Group Opposes Glyphosate Resistant Sugarbeets
Michigan Farmer – 03/04/2008, 05:31 am
The Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility is rolling out a Web-based campaign targeting 60 of the nation's biggest food, beverage and restaurant companies to join them in opposing the planting of glyphosate-resistant sugarbeets.

Alien plant species affecting Antarctica biodiversity
newKerala – 03/04/2008, 12:40 pm
Scientists from across the world, including India, have found a few alien plant species in Antarctica. They are affecting the biodiversity of the ice continent, Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal said Tuesday.

Farmers rake millions from malaria drug
The Monitor – 03/04/2008, 12:15 pm
John Tabaro, an elderly farmer in Kabale District who has tilled the land for years growing mainly sorghum made his first 2 million last year thanks to a 'little-known' crop Sweet Wormwood whose scientific name is Artemesia annua.

GMO taro bill moves forward
Kauai Garden Island News – 03/04/2008, 12:12 pm
Would put moratorium on developing GMO strainsby Rachel Gehrlein - THE GARDEN ISLAND Supporters of a Senate bill aimed to impose a 10-year moratorium on the developing, testing and raising of genetically modified taro are relieved, after waiting for more than a year, that the bill will be heard on March 19.

Stubble management can have big benefits
Clovis News Journal – 03/04/2008, 11:59 am
In the semiarid climate of the southern Great Plains, strong winds promote evaporation and wind erosion, while unpredictable precipitation patterns expose crops to severe environmental stresses and the high intensity of rains often leads to water erosion.

Scientist Finds Evidence of "Rain-Making" Bacteria
Pollution Online – 03/04/2008, 11:43 am
Christner's team examined precipitation from global locations and demonstrated that the most active ice nuclei - a substrate that enhances the formation of ice - are biological in origin.

Evolution of root nodule symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria
EurekAlert! – 03/03/2008, 20:40 pm
Nitrogen is essential for all plants and animals, but despite being surrounded by it—the element constitutes 79% of air on earth—only a few bacteria can absorb it directly from the environment.

Move to keep GM crops out of Wales
News Wales – 03/04/2008, 09:37 am
Green groups in Wales have welcomed a new Assembly document which underpins the commitment to keep genetically modified crops out of Wales. Commenting on the draft Regulation, GM Free Cymru spokesperson Gill Rowlands said: ' It is excellent that Elin Jones and the Welsh Assembly Government have taken a bold step and acted on behalf of the people of Wales to protect our very special environment.

Pathologic and taxonomic analysis of leaf spot and tar spot diseases in a tropical dry to wet monsoon ecosystem of lowland Burma
CSIRO PUBLISHING – 03/04/2008, 08:54 am
Foliar diseases due to ascomycetes and/or their anamorphs are described comprising 158 leaf spot and 43 tar spot diseases across a spectrum of some 69 host plant families in tropical, dry to wet, north to south, lowland, central Burma.

In Highland Peru, a Culture Confronts Blight
NPR – 03/04/2008, 08:23 am
In the Peruvian village of Chatawayre, farmers grow more than 250 varieties of potato.

The Scientist Selects the Noble Foundation as One of the Best Places to Work for Post Doctoral Fellows
DiGiTAL50 – 03/04/2008, 04:34 am
The Scientist's magazine released its annual Best Places to Work for Post Doctoral Fellows (postdocs) survey and the Noble Foundation was ranked No. 1.

'Doomsday' vault
Louisville Courier-Journal – 03/04/2008, 02:47 am
'Doomsday' vault Norway's frozen repository has the capability of storing 4.5 million seed samples from around the globe By Doug Mellgren Associated Press By Doug Mellgren Associated Press LONGYEARBYEN, Norway -- It's been dubbed a Noah's Ark for plant life and built to withstand an earthquake or a nuclear attack.

Women: New partners in fighting poverty?
Zamibian Times – 03/04/2008, 02:03 am
IF Zambia and Africa as a whole is looking for partners in combating hunger and poverty, they need look no further. They can find credible partners in rural women.

Available technology, perceptions key to faster biotech acceptance
Africa Science News Service – 03/04/2008, 01:34 am
Africa’s adoption of biotechnology, itself consisting of three major areas: tissue culture, genetic engineering and biophysical engineering, would largely depend on the facilities available and the general perception of the consumers.

Genetic code of corn cracked
UPI – 03/03/2008, 18:51 pm
U.S. researchers said they have cracked the genetic code of corn, one of the world's most important food and biofuel crops. Researchers from Washington University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Iowa State University and the University of Arizona used a genetic physical map created by the University of Arizona to complete a working draft of the corn genome.

Creating an agricultural Noah's Ark
DAWN Group – 03/03/2008, 19:26 pm
A VAST underground vault constructed to store millions of seeds from around the world which opened on February 26 in a mountain on a remote island near the Arctic Ocean is the latest move in a wide strategy to make off-site storage the dominant or the only approach to crop diversity conservation.

Research begins on jatropha as biofuel
The Straits Times – 03/03/2008, 17:33 pm
ON A small new research farm in Singapore's rural district, the seeds of a so-called wonder plant, jatropha curcas, have just taken root.

ABB plans to strengthen agribusiness
Get Farming – 03/03/2008, 17:55 pm
ABB Grain Ltd ("ABB") announced plans to build a malting plant and grain containerisation facility in Sydney's south west. ABB has entered into an exclusive heads of agreement with the Macarthur Intermodal Shipping Terminal group ("MIST Group") to develop a site at the Minto industrial precinct, approximately 40 kilometres west of Botany Bay, for purposes of building a malting plant and grain containerisation facility.

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols features high-throughput methods for analyzing gene activity
Omniomix - It's All About Biotech – 03/03/2008, 17:57 pm
New high-throughput methods are revolutionizing our understanding of transcriptional regulation.

Weed's seeds evolve quickly in the city
Nature – 03/03/2008, 17:20 pm
Urbanization is forcing plants to evolve quickly, but their form of evolution could ultimately put them in danger of dying out.

'CAT scan' shows Hawaiian forests invaded by alien species
Mongabay – 03/03/2008, 17:13 pm
Invasive plant species are altering the ecology of Hawaiian rain forests, reports a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Seed of life in Arctic wastes
The Straits Times – 03/03/2008, 17:10 pm
LAST week, on an island in Norway's North Pole region, seeds that can regenerate humankind's food supply should a catastrophe engulf Earth were placed in a vault for storage.

Are You Carbon Neutral?
Electronic Products – 03/03/2008, 15:23 pm
As oil prices surge and global warming concerns fuel demand for clean energy, the watchword for 2008 is green. With the average American directly responsible for about 10 tons of CO2 emissions annually (home, car, travel) and indirectly causing another 23 tons each year via our role in the general economy (buying clothes, food, etc.)

Bollworms develop resistance
Checkbiotech – 03/03/2008, 07:05 am
Bt-cotton is a genetically engineered plant that produces the toxin Bacillus thuringiensis, which is deadly to several cotton pests. After analyzing tests from Australia, China, Spain and the United States, University of Arizona researcher Bruce Tabashnik concluded that the American cotton bollworm or, scientifically, Helicoverpa zea has begun to evolve a resistance to the toxin as it exists in the genetically engineered cotton.

Tobacco Donations Fund Plant Breeding Research
Cornell Daily Sun – 03/03/2008, 06:39 am
Several universities decline tobacco funding More and more universities across the country have decided to reject hefty donations and grants from big tobacco companies.

Gene discovery makes drought-tolerant crops possible
Bio Spectrum Asia – 03/03/2008, 04:52 am
Researchers at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences of the University of Helsinki and the University of California have discovered a gene that is centrally involved in the regulation of carbon dioxide uptake for photosynthesis and water evaporation in plants.

Non-GM Breakthroughs Leave GM Behind
Scoop – 03/03/2008, 00:18 am
Does the mention of allergen-free peanut, salt-resistant wheat, beta-carotene rich sweet potato, and virus-resistant cassava make you think of GM? If so, you’ve missed the great unpublished story of 2007 – all the non-GM answers to precisely the problems (drought-resistance, salt-resistance, biofortification, etc.) that proponents claim only GM can solve.

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