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Somaclonal Variation and Induced Mutations in Crop Improvement (Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture)
Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa by Robert Paarlberg, 2009-08-05
Transgenic Crop Plants: Volume 1: Principles and Development
Genetic Resources, Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement: Cereals, Volume 2 (Genetic Resources Chromosome Engineering & Crop Improvement)
Agricultural Biotechnology: (Biotechnology in Agriculture Series) by G J Persley, L R MacIntyre, 1991-01-01
Soybean: (Biotechnology in Agriculture Series) by D P S Verma, R C Shoemaker, 1995-01-10
Rice Biotechnology (Biotechnology in Agriculture Series) by G S Khush, G Toenniessen, 1991-01-01
In vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants: Volume 3: Important Selected Plants (Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture)
The Biotechnology Revolution in Global Agriculture: (Biotechnology in Agriculture Series) by P W B Phillips, G G Khachatourians, 2001-01-05
Plant Genetic Resources of Legumes in the Mediterranean (Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, Volume 39)
In vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants: Volume 5: Oil, Ornamental and Miscellaneous Plants (Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture)
In vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants: Volume 4: Cereals (Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture)
Potato (Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry)
In vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants: Volume 1: Fundamental Aspects and Methods (Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture)

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INF. Institute Of Natural Fibers
Poland. Interdisciplinary research center, involved in applied research in the cultivation and processing of fiber crops, genetic engineering, biotechnology, retting and yarn spinning technology, and machine design for harvesting and processing of textile raw materials. List of Publications. Links to related sites. English and Polish.
http://iwn.inf.poznan.pl/
AgBios
Regulatory and risk assessment information on agricultural biotechnology products, including genetically modified foods and crops.
http://www.agbios.com
AGCare - Agricultural Groups Concerned About Resources And The Environment
Represents Ontario's 45,000 growers of field and horticultural crops on agricultural pesticide use, crops biotechnology developments, and other related environmental issues.
http://www.agcare.org/
Totnes Genetix Group
Campaign site for raising issues about genetic engineering, especially in food and food crops. News of local, national and international agbiotech and biotechnology activity, research links, articles, databases and links to other campaigning sites.
http://www.togg.org.uk/

Extractions: last updated 20th August 2003 Welcome to the ToGG website. Here you can find out; who we are what we do and why we do it This site is not updated very often - we prefer doing stuff in the real world. However you can find up-to-date info from the sites link to from our resources pages as well as downloadable leaflets and the Genetix Update You may also find our powerful genetix search facility , a handy tool for researching stuff yourself.
Malaysian Biotechnology Information Centre
Articles about the use of genetically modified crops in countries around the world, especially in the Malaysian area.
http://www.bic.org.my/

Extractions: Welcome to MABIC, Guest Home Agbiotech Environment Food ... Issues > PDF version of local news can be downloaded from our website now! To download the files, all you need to do is just sign up as a member! > ISAAA released an executive summary on Global Status of Commercialised Transgenic Crops: 2004.
Genetic Engineering (Biotechnology) (Index)
During the past decade, biotechnology companies commercialized the first generationof Recently, a second wave of biotech products began emergingcrops,
http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_environment/biotechnology/index.cfm

Extractions: To protect human health and the environment from engineered products, we need strong federal oversight and active citizen participation. We urge you to join in our efforts to strengthen U.S. regulation of agricultural biotechnology products. Our current priorities are to: Convince the federal government to establish regulations to protect the food supply and environment from contamination by engineered pharma and industrial crops
General
What is the environmental impact of biotechnology? Biotech crops help farmers 7 The Potential for biotechnology to Improve Crop Pest Management in the
http://www.whybiotech.com/index.asp?id=faqs
AgBioForum 1(2): Will Biotechnology Bring Prosperity To Rural America?
Key words farmers; valueadded crops; biotechnology; impacts; contract growers.At this point, I think it remains relatively uncertain what specific impact
http://www.agbioforum.org/v1n2/v1n2a07-freiberg.htm

Extractions: Volume 1 // Number 2 // Article 7 Back Issues Index Will Biotechnology Bring Prosperity To Rural America? Bill Freiberg Freiberg Publishing In the past, farm technologies have resulted in increased commodity surpluses, reduced prices, and low profit margins for farmers. This situation could change with the development of a value-added grain production system. The impacts of such a system on farmers are discussed. Key words: farmers; value-added crops; biotechnology; impacts; contract growers. At this point, I think it remains relatively uncertain what specific impact biotechnology will have on farmers, and on rural America, in general, for that matter. Although some are anticipating that farmers will benefit by seeing increased profits for their biotechnology crops, similar hopes for new farm technology have not materialized in the past. All one needs to do is to look at the ongoing farm failures, and historically low crop prices, to see how much impact new technology has had on farm profits. New farming technology of the past few decades has resulted mostly in increased surpluses and lower crop prices. When farmers actually do see more money for their crops, land prices and other farming costs quickly rise to eat up much of those profits. A strong case can be made that in the past there have been primarily two major benefactors of new farm technology: the big companies that develop the technology (who are paid first in the production chain), and consumers who get cheap food, thanks to the farm surpluses created by the new technology. That old saying that "everyone makes money from farming except for the farmers" has a lot of truth to it. And for decades, much of this "high-tech treadmill" system has been supported, even perpetuated, by the Land Grant colleges and the extension system, which long ago jumped on the "produce more at any cost" bandwagon. These institutions have often totally ignored the surpluses and low prices that this kind of farming creates.
ERS/USDA Briefing Room - Agricultural Biotechnology
Size and Distribution of Market Benefits from Adopting Biotech crops crops biotechnology Policy Topics Agricultural Research Development Policy
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/Biotechnology/

Extractions: Have Seed Industry Changes Affected Research Effort? The Seed Industry in U.S. Agriculture Consumers and the Future of Biotech Foods in the United States The Effects of Information on Consumer Demand for Biotech Foods: Evidence from Experimental Auctions —Consumers' willingness to pay for food products decreases when the food label indicates that a food product is produced with the aid of modern biotechnology. An experimental auction was designed and conducted to elicit consumers' willingness to pay for "genetically modified" (GM)-labeled and standard-labeled foods under different information regimes. For vegetable oil, tortilla chips, and potatoes, labels mattered. Consumers discounted food items labeled "GM" by an average of 14 percent. The study also found that gender, income, and other demographic characteristics had only a slight impact on consumers' willingness to pay for biotech foods, while information from interested parties and independent third-party sources had a strong impact. (4/03)
BINAS Online: News: CAST Releases Issue Paper On GM Crops
The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) has produced a newissue paper Applications of biotechnology to crops Benefits and Risks .
http://binas.unido.org/binas/show.php?id=7&type=html&table=news_sources&dir=news
Putting The EU In Its Place: Why Filing A GMO Case With The WTO Is Crucial
For example, in Africa, up to 80 percent of some crops are lost to drought.biotechnology offers the prospect of crops that are more resilient, require less
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Europe/em855.cfm

Extractions: Executive Memorandum #855 Since 1998, with minor exceptions, no agricultural biotech products have been approved by the European Union. This moratorium hinders world trade, harming consumers, farmers, and the environment. The Bush Administration should file a dispute with the World Trade Organization (WTO) against the EU moratorium on genetically modified organisms (referred to as GMO, GM, or biotechnology) to prevent further harm and to halt the spread of European protectionism. Biotechnology is based on the same science as traditional plant breeding, which has been used for millennia to genetically develop (or eliminate) specific traits. Biotechnology is simply a faster and more precise technique used for the same purpose. Desirable traits could include increased yield, higher quality produce, reduced water consumption, and less dependence on fertilizer. Biotech Is Safe. The available evidence indicates that biotechnology is fundamentally safe. Professor Perry Adkisson, summarizing the findings of the April 2000 report from U.S. National Academy of Sciences, has observed that there is "no strict distinction between the health and environmental risks posed by plants modified through modern genetic engineering techniques and those modified by conventional breeding practices."
Can Genetically Engineered Crops Feed A Hungry World?
biotechnology innovations are being developed to increase crop yields and provideopportunities for growing crops on land otherwise unable to support plant
http://www.agbioworld.org/biotech-info/topics/dev-world/hungry_world.html

Extractions: Thursday, March 30, 2000 Food companies thinking about banning genetically modified grain from their products should consider what happened to Frito-Lay when the company decided to cave in to anti-biotech activists, who have nothing but fear-mongering and pseudo science to support their demands. Frito-Lay recently told its corn producers to stop planting corn that is genetically improved to ward off harmful insects. Even though there was very little consumer demand for such an action, the company apparently feared a food scare generated by activists and took the step anyway. But the move was not enough to placate activists, who still threaten action until the company does everything necessary to declare its products free of genetically modified foods. Over the next century, world population will approach 9 billion. But purchasing power is concentrated in the developed countries, while more than 90 percent of the projected population growth is likely to occur in developing countries. It is not difficult to predict where food shortages will occur. As UC Davis professor Martina McGloughlin says, unless we are willing to accept starvation, or put parks and the Amazon Basin under the plow, there is only one good alternative: find ways to increase food production.
Why Biotech Foods Are Kosher
If we support biotechnology, these crops may eventually help prevent blindness Studies are done to evaluate all aspects of biotechnologyimproved crops.
http://www.agbioworld.org/biotech-info/religion/kosher.html

Extractions: http://www.ohebreu.com.br Not since the 1960's has the question of Kashrut taken on such an interest in the secular community. Today, small but vocal activist groups affiliated with the political Natural Law movement claim genetically modified or biotech foods should not be kosher. In the 1960's, some of these same activists called for a ban on grapes in the United States claiming they should not kosher; their justification: immoral growers were exploiting migrant farm workers toiling under inhumane conditions. While conditions for migrant farm workers may well have needed improvement, this did not make the grapes non-kosher. Just as food politics in the 1960's did not guide Kosher law, the same is true today for foods derived from biotechnology crops. Rabbi Yechezkel Auerbach, Director of Administration for K-of-K Kosher Supervision, instructs us, "Kashrut is not a political question. It is a question of law - of Halachic, the laws governing Kashrut." Rabbi Auerbach emphasizes "Kashrut should not be politicized. It is not a question of external pressures. Rather, it is the deliberative process of interpreting Halachah."
"Biotechnology In Crops: Issues For The Developing World" By Laura Spinney For O
biotechnology in crops Issues for the Developing World by Laura Spinney for Oxfam GB.
http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/oxfam_spinney.html
General
10 Ontario Use Of Biotech crops On The Increase Again AgCare, 16 Safetyand Regulations, Council for biotechnology Information, Washington, DC
http://whybiotech.ca/canada-english.asp?id=faqs
General
The Council for biotechnology Information invites you to learn more of the promise of Regulation of Biotech crops, Safety of Biotech crops
http://whybiotech.ca/index.asp?id=3208
International Symposium On Biotechnology Of Tropical Species And Temperate Fruit
International Symposium on biotechnology of Temperate Fruit crops and. TropicalSpecies. October 1014, 2005. Hilton Daytona Beach / Ocean Walk Village
http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/ISHScrops/
SeedQuest - Central Information Website For The Global Seed Industry
Spain biotechnology coexistence update noted in SP4028) as a minimum bufferbetween biotechnology, and traditional and/or traditional/organic crops;
http://www.seedquest.com/News/releases/2005/july/12966.htm

Extractions: July 28, 2005 USDA /FAS GAIN Report SP5023 HIGHLIGHTS After eight years of incident-free biotechnology self-regulation (coexistence), Spanish farmers will now experience Government-regulated coexistence. This politically necessary approach will not improve the spotless record of "security" in biotechnology seed use, nor dissuade its cultivation in corn borer infected regions of Spain. It will mean unnecessary expense for everyone from the national and autonomous regional governments to the farmers planting biotechnology seeds, and will not likely placate any of the activists regardless of their "activist" positions. (CM4SH8). The Government of Spain surprised almost everyone on Tuesday, July 19, 2005, by calling a news conference to announce a coexistence decree. In the press conference, key representatives of the ministries of agriculture and the environment presented the details, which track closely with those we outlined in SP4028, and suggested that their coexistence decree should be a model for the rest of Europe. (see Se regula la coexistencia de los cultivos modificados genéticamente It is our understanding that the Royal Decree (Decree) will be finalized along the lines currently presented by the end of calendar year 2005, and will be operational for corn planting in 2006. As additional biotechnology events are approved for planting, we expect Spanish farmers to embrace them, in spite of the additional governmentally sponsored burdens imposed by the Decree.
Ific.org : Food Biotechnology
Global food demand has increased the need for improved crops. biotechnology offersthe needed technology to produce higher crop yields, plants that are
http://ific.org/food/biotechnology/index.cfm

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Global Biotech Crops Map
Joel I. Cohen and Robert Paarlberg, Unlocking Crop biotechnology in DevelopingCountriesA Report from the Field, World Development, 32 (9) 2004,
http://mbbnet.umn.edu/scmap/biotechcropsmap.html

Extractions: Soybeans, cotton, maize (corn) and canola accounted for nearly all crop values and planted areas. Other countries with a significant level of commercial biotech crop production include South Africa, Mexico, Australia, India, Romania, Spain, the Philippines, and Uruguay (Runge and Ryan, 2004). Additional crops of biotech research interest include alfalfa, apple, banana, barley, carrot, cassava, citrus, cocoa, coconut, coffee, flax, grape, lettuce, oil palm, olive, papaya, pea/bean, peanut, pineapple, potato, rice, sorghum, spinach, squash, strawberry, sugar beet, sugar cane, sunflower, tomato, watermelon, and wheat (Runge and Ryan, 2004). References Map based on C. Ford Runge and Barry Ryan

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