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September 2009

  • TAIWAN approves another biotech corn variety

    Posted: September 1st, 2009 - 9:08am

    Taiwan's Department of Health has cleared Syngenta's four stacked-trait biotech corn products for import into the country. With this recent approval, the DOH has granted permits for 11 stacked-trait biotech corn products in total, including eight events of 2-way stack, two events of 3-way stack and one event of 4-way stack.

    Date Published: 
    31.aug.09
    Genetic Engineering  |  Comments
  • JAPAN-Embrapa collaborate on drought/heat tolerant GM soybean

    Posted: September 1st, 2009 - 9:07am

    Japanese government representatives from the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Japan Science Technology (JST) are meeting with Embrapa Soja, in Londrina, a unit of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation to discuss the details of a  project on the development of soybean cultivars tolerant to dro

    Date Published: 
    31.aug.09
    Genetic Engineering  |  Comments
  • VIRGINIA: Scientists identify witch weed resistance gene

    Posted: September 1st, 2009 - 9:06am

    Researchers from the University of Virginia in the U.S. have successfully identified a gene in cowpea that confers resistance to the parasitic weed Striga. Also known as witchweed, Striga infests some 50 million hectares of cereal crops and is responsible for more than USD 7 billion worth of crop damage every year in Africa.

    Date Published: 
    31.aug.09
    Plants  |  Comments
  • Complete PHB mobilization in Escherichia coli enhances the stress tolerance: a potential biotechnological application

    Posted: September 1st, 2009 - 9:05am

    Poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) mobilization in bacteria has been proposed as a mechanism that can benefit their host for survival under stress conditions. Here we reported for the first time a stress-induced system enabled E. coli, a non-PHB producer, to mobilize PHB in vivo by mimicking natural PHB accumulation bacteria.

    Date Published: 
    31.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Microbial Cell Factories 2009, 8:47
    E. coli  |  Comments