Information Systems for Biotechnology

June 2008

Information Systems for Biotechnology Program to End	HTML	PDF
Harmonizing the Non-target Risk Assessment for GM Crops	HTML	PDF
Can a Foreign Protein Improve the Amino Acid Balance of Corn?	HTML	PDF
Transgenic Wheat Has Increased Polyamines	HTML	PDF
Prior Art: The Skeleton in a Patent's Closet	HTML	PDF

May 2008

Genetic Engineering Approaches to Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency	HTML	PDF
Expressing Hepatitis B Virus Surface Antigen in Rice	HTML	PDF
Avoiding Insect Resistance to Cry Toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis	HTML	PDF
Fifth Annual Biosafety and Biosecurity Training Course	HTML	PDF

April 2008

Send in the Clones	HTML	PDF
The IPKb Vector Set: Modular Binary Plasmids for Cereal Transformation	HTML	PDF
Gene Flow among Transgenic Plants and Their Wild Relatives: Implications for Risk Assessment	HTML	PDF
Gene Flow in Sugar Beet Production Fields	HTML	PDF
Meeting: Physiological Sculpture of Plants: New visions and capabilities for crop development	HTML	PDF
Meeting: 10th ISBGMO	HTML	PDF

March 2008

Parameters Affecting Gene Flow in Oilseed Rape	HTML	PDF
Growing Nonfood Products in Transgenic Plants	HTML	PDF
Ds Insertion Lines Valuable for Rice Breeding	HTML	PDF
Meeting: Biotechnology Havana 2008	HTML	PDF

February 2008

Field Evidence: Bt Corn and Mycotoxin Reduction	HTML	PDF
Enhancing Plant Carotenoids via Manipulation of Sink Strength	HTML	PDF
Supremes Consign the Monsanto – McFarling Litigation to Rest in Peace	HTML	PDF
Meeting: The Future of Agricultural Biotechnology: Creative Destruction, Adoption, or Irrelevance?	HTML	PDF
Meeting: Agricultural Biotechnology for a competitive and sustainable future	HTML	PDF

January 2008

Phytoremediation of Volatile Pollutants through Genetic Engineering	HTML	PDF
Genetically Engineered High Lysine Corn	HTML	PDF
Camelina sativa: A Potential Oilseed Crop for Biofuels and Genetically Engineered Products	HTML	PDF
Will Regulation Prevent Animal Biotech From Bringing Home The Bacon?	HTML	PDF

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December 2007

Patent Battles On and Off the Court	HTML	PDF
Towards Plastid Transformation in Maize	HTML	PDF
Flavonoids for Environmental Equivalence Profiling of GE Plants	HTML	PDF

November 2007

Conner Announces Plan to Improve Quality Compliance of Genetically Engineered Products	HTML	PDF
An Alternative Approach to Genetic Engineered Alfalfa	HTML	PDF
Genetic Approach to Identifying Bt Resistance Genes In Heliothis virescens	HTML	PDF
An Unexpected Method for Controlling Corn Pollen Dispersal	HTML	PDF
Non-target Effects of Bt Crops Database Available	HTML	PDF

October 2007

Maize Streak Virus Resistant Transgenic Maize: A First for Africa	HTML	PDF
How Pea Phospholipase C Functions in Salinity Stress Tolerance	HTML	PDF
What Controls Vitamin C Levels in Plants?	HTML	PDF
Crop-to-crop Gene Flow Studies of Fodder Maize in the UK	HTML	PDF

September 2007

Cyanobacterial Flavodoxin Provides Multiple Stress Tolerance	HTML	PDF
Cleaning-up Crop Genomes through Intragenic Modification	HTML	PDF
Cultivar Cultivates Disaster for Soybean Patent While Supremes Throttle Patent Test	HTML	PDF
Gene Flow among Transgenic Plants and Their Wild Relatives: Implications for Risk Assessment	HTML	PDF

August 2007

USDA Seeks Public Comment on Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement	HTML	PDF
A Tiered Approach to Assessing Risk of GE Plants to Non-target Organisms	HTML	PDF
Minichromosomes: The Next Generation Technology for Plant Genetic Engineering	HTML	PDF
Pea Heterotrimeric G-proteins Confer Salinity and Heat Stress Tolerance	HTML	PDF
NSF Seeks Biotechnology Research Grant Funding Applications	HTML	PDF

July 2007

Selectable Marker Gene Excision from Transgenic Plants	HTML	PDF
Reducing Gossypol in Cottonseed May Improve Human Nutrition	HTML	PDF
Transgenic Malaria-resistant Mosquitoes Have a Fitness Advantage	HTML	PDF
Judge Concerned that Alfalfa May Be a Little Rascal — and other Legal News	HTML	PDF

June 2007

Gene-Deletor: A New Tool to Address Concerns over GE Crops	HTML	PDF
Metabolic Engineering through Plastid Transformation	HTML	PDF
Genetically Engineering Folate Biofortification in Tomato	HTML	PDF
Selected Highlights from 2007 BIO International Convention	HTML	PDF

May 2007

Biosafety of Transgenic Sorghum – A Comment on Visarada and Kishore (2007)	HTML	PDF
Environmental Safety of Transgenic Squash: A Geostatistical Analysis	HTML	PDF
Nitrogen Use Efficient Canola Showing Early Success	HTML	PDF
Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture by Jon Entine	HTML	PDF

April 2007

Identification of Escaped Transgenic Creeping Bentgrass in Oregon	HTML	PDF
Federal Courts Disapprove APHIS Approval Procedures	HTML	PDF
High Quality Hay Market May be Most Impacted by Removal of RR Alfalfa	HTML	PDF
Caffeine-producing Transgenic Tobacco: A Novel Pest Control Strategy	HTML	PDF
Generation of Marker-free Transgenic Plants	HTML	PDF

March 2007

Improvement of Sorghum through Transgenic Technology	HTML	PDF
Feeds from Genetically Engineered Plants — Results and Future Challenges	HTML	PDF
The Incredible, Pharmaceutical Egg	HTML	PDF
ISAAA Releases Annual Global Status Report of Biotech Crops	HTML	PDF
FAO E-mail Conference Invitation: Water Scarcity and Agricultural Biotechnologies	HTML	PDF

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February 2007

FDA Releases Draft Risk Assessment and Management Plan for Foods from Cloned Animals	HTML	PDF
Biosafety in a Globalized World	HTML	PDF
Genetic Transformation of Cereals Mediated by Agrobacterium: Potential and Problems	HTML	PDF
Control of Fruit Flies and the Pink Bollworm using Genetically Engineered Sterile Flies and Worms	HTML	PDF

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January 2007

Funding Opportunity	HTML	PDF
Risks and Benefits of Glyphosate-Resistant Crops	HTML	PDF
Evaluation of Allergenicity of Genetically Modified Soybean Protein Extract	HTML	PDF
Production of Recombinant HIV-1 Antigen in Transgenic Tobacco	HTML	PDF

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December 2006

Taking Aim at a Peaceful Coexistence	HTML	PDF
Agbiotech Evolution Needs a Regulatory Revolution	HTML	PDF
Ecological Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops: Ten Years of Field Research and Commercial Cultivation	HTML	PDF
Gene Flow from GE to Conventional Maize in Real Situations of Coexistence	HTML	PDF

November 2006

Wild Rice	HTML	PDF
EPA Regulation of Biotechnology-Derived Food and Feed Crop Plants containing Plant-Incorporated Protectants	HTML	PDF
Searching for Unintended Compositional Changes in GE Potatoes	HTML	PDF
Pearl Millet with Enhanced Resistance to Rust and Downy Mildew	HTML	PDF
'Nutrigenomics' Among Next-Generation Applications in Ag Biotechnology	HTML	PDF
New Study Addresses Handling GM/Non-GM Grain	HTML	PDF

October 2006

Chromosomal Localization by Laser Pressure Catapulting	HTML	PDF
RNA Interference for Wheat Functional Genomics	HTML	PDF
Considerations of Adopting Bt Seed Mixture Strategy for Cabbage Looper	HTML	PDF
Federal Court Finds an Oversight in APHIS’ Oversight of Biopharming	HTML	PDF
Canadian Company Develops Safflower as New Source of Insulin	HTML	PDF

September 2006

A New Concept to Engineer Specific Transcription of Transplastomic Genes	HTML	PDF
Legislating AgBiotech	HTML	PDF
Does the ERA Process Work for GE Crops?	HTML	PDF
Mycotoxin Reduction in Bt Corn: Potential Economic, Health, and Regulatory Impacts	HTML	PDF
Industrial Biotech Will Account for 10% of Chemical Industry by 2010	HTML	PDF

August 2006

High Throughput Functional Genomics of Perennial Ryegrass	HTML	PDF
Gene Flow from GE to Conventional Maize Using Real-time PCR	HTML	PDF
Transgenic Plants that Make Non-transgenic Pollen	HTML	PDF
Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops in the U.S.	HTML	PDF

July 2006

Human Immune Protein CD14 Expressed in Tobacco	HTML	PDF
Super-Sizing Cassava	HTML	PDF
Effects of Transgenic Cotton on Biodiversity, Pesticide Use and Yield	HTML	PDF
NDSU Report: Biotechnology Among Forces Reshaping World Ag	HTML	PDF
ABIC 2006 Conference: Unlocking the Potential of Agricultural Biotechnology	HTML	PDF

June 2006

A Concept to Engineer Male Reproductive Sterility in Conifers	HTML	PDF
Most Growers Aware of, Complying with Bt Corn Standards	HTML	PDF
GE Tomato Resistant to Leaf Curl Disease	HTML	PDF
Omega-3 Pigs	HTML	PDF
A Nanotech Revolution in Agriculture and the Food Industry	HTML	PDF
Plum Trees Genetically Engineered for Resistance to Plum Pox	HTML	PDF

May 2006

14th Annual Meeting of BIO: Conference Highlights	HTML	PDF
Risk Assessment for Pest Resistance Transgenes	HTML	PDF
Transgenic Plants for Spider Silk-like Protein Production	HTML	PDF
Root Engineering: A Strategy for Agriculture in Marginal Areas of Cultivation	HTML	PDF
Database of the Benefits and Safety of Biotechnology	HTML	PDF
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute to Develop Tomato Metabolite Database	HTML	PDF

April 2006

Gene Flow from Transgenic Oilseed Rape	HTML	PDF
Protective Plague Vaccine Produced in Tobacco Leaves	HTML	PDF
European Regulators Curdle Plans for Goat Milk Human Antithrombin	HTML	PDF
Triticum aestivum L (Wheat)—An incredibly complex genetic soup	HTML	PDF

March 2006

Development of Rice Seed Based Edible Vaccine for Allergic Immunotherapy	HTML	PDF
Progress in Molecular Approaches to Drought Tolerance in Crop Plant	HTML	PDF
Considerations of Cross-Fertilization between GM and Non-GM Maize	HTML	PDF
Inspector General Fires Warning Shot at APHIS	HTML	PDF
USDA APHIS Seeks Comments on Environmental Risk Assessments	HTML	PDF

February 2006

Biotechnology and Comparative Risk Assessment	HTML	PDF
Possible Health Aspects of Horizontal Transfer of Microbial Transgenes Present in Genetically Modified Crops	HTML	PDF
Mitigating Transgene Flow from Crops	HTML	PDF

January 2006

Opening Pandora’s Box: Governance for Genetically Modified Forests	HTML	PDF
Risk Assessment for Insect Resistance Transgenes	HTML	PDF
Proteomic Profiling and Unintended Effects in Genetically Modified Crops	HTML	PDF
Pew Initiative Workshops Scrutinize Animal Biotechnology	HTML	PDF

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December 2005

Open-source Agriculture	HTML	PDF
A Conceptual Framework for the Design of Environmental Post-Market Monitoring of Genetically Modified Plants	HTML	PDF
Approaches to Minimize Variation of Transgene Expression in Plants	HTML	PDF
Dextran-Producing Transgenic Potato Tubers	HTML	PDF
ESTs: What Are They Good For?	HTML	PDF

November 2005

National Research Initiative: Animal Protection Funding Opportunity	HTML	PDF
Found-and-Lost: Transgenic Maize in Oaxaca, Mexico	HTML	PDF
Employing a Composite Gene Flow Index to Numerically Quantify a Crop’s Potential for Gene Flow	HTML	PDF
Tailoring Chemically-induced Gene Switches for Research and Agriculture	HTML	PDF
Biotechnology as a Key Driver for Sustainable Bioenergy Production	HTML	PDF

October 2005

Horizontal Gene Transfer: Plant vs. Bacterial Genes for Antibiotic Resistance Scenarios—What’s The Difference?	HTML	PDF
Engineering Broad-spectrum Disease Resistance	HTML	PDF
Application of a Regeneration QTL Gene to Plant Transformation	HTML	PDF
Using Transcriptional Analysis to Determine Responses to Phosphate Deprivation	HTML	PDF

September 2005

Preserving the Effectiveness of Bt Crops	HTML	PDF
Engineering Cytoplasmic Male Sterility via the Chloroplast Genome	HTML	PDF
Homologous Promoter Use in Genetic Modification	HTML	PDF
QTL Detection and Application to Plant Breeding	HTML	PDF
Genetic Improvement for Tolerance to Phosphorus Deficiency in Rice	HTML	PDF

August 2005

Herbicide Resistant Crops May Promote Herbicide Tolerance in Weeds	HTML	PDF
Towards ‘Stacked’ Traits - Prospects for Multi-Gene Manipulation in Plants	HTML	PDF
Sustainable and Durable Insect Pest Resistance in Transgenic Crops	HTML	PDF
A Wide Cross-Tolerance of Transgenic Rice Containing Human CYP2B6 to Various Classes of Herbicides	HTML	PDF
Non-Agrobacterial Species for Gene Transfer to Plants	HTML	PDF

July 2005

Using Transgenic Plants as a Source of Genetic Diversity for Breeding Greater Drought Tolerance into Wheat	HTML	PDF
Advances in Rice Biotechnology in the New Millennium	HTML	PDF
Bt10 Slips into the Stream of Commerce	HTML	PDF
Spurring Growth In Dynamic Sectors: A Paradigm Shift in Biotech Strategy and Management	HTML	PDF
Developing Countries Now Have Well-Developed Biotechnology Programs	HTML	PDF

June 2005

A View on the GM Farm Scale Evaluations	HTML	PDF
Association Genetics and Its Implications for Agbiotech Research	HTML	PDF
Improving Stress Tolerance through Energy Homeostasis in Plants	HTML	PDF
NIH’s Fluctuating Ethics Policy Polarizes Opinion	HTML	PDF
Spurring Growth In Dynamic Sectors	HTML	PDF
Workshop Update	HTML

May 2005

A Novel Strategy for the Prevention of Staphylococcus aureus-Induced Mastitis in Dairy Cows	HTML	PDF
Advances and Future Perspectives in Fruit Tree Transformation	HTML	PDF
Transgenic Basmati Rice	HTML	PDF
Tracking Plant Transgenes in Soil - Where Do They Go?	HTML	PDF
GAO Sees Deficiencies in Efforts to Guard Agriculture from Terrorism	HTML	PDF

April 2005

Emerging Plant Biotechnologies: New Bugs for Old	HTML	PDF
To Carb Or Not To Carb–Towards Accessible Low Sugar Sweeteners	HTML	PDF
Retaining Genetically Engineered Seed? Consider Retaining a Lawyer	HTML	PDF
Commentary on the Center for Food Safety Report	HTML	PDF

March 2005

A Workshop on Agricultural Species as Biomedical Models	HTML	PDF
A Gene Repression System in Plants via Chromosome Remodeling by Histone Deacetylases	HTML	PDF
TILLING: Harvesting functional genomics for crop improvement	HTML	PDF
Tobacco and Rice Plants Express Insulin-like Growth Factor	HTML	PDF
Unwinding after High Salinity Stress: Development of Salinity Tolerant Plant without Affecting Yield	HTML	PDF
Upcoming Meeting: Agricultural Biotechnology: Ten Years After	HTML	PDF

February 2005

Release of Larvicidal Cry Proteins in Root Exudates of Transgenic Bt Plants	HTML	PDF
Frequency of Pollen Drift in Genetically Engineered Corn	HTML	PDF
Assessing the Benefits and Risks of GE Crops: Evidence from the Insect Resistant Maize for Africa Project	HTML	PDF
Patent Challenges to AgBiotech Technologies in 2004	HTML	PDF

January 2005

Long Distance Pollen-Mediated Gene Flow from Creeping Bentgrass	HTML	PDF
Genetic Acclimation for Freezing Tolerance	HTML	PDF
Engineered Ribosomal Protein Limits Plant Resistance to Mycotoxins	HTML	PDF
Approval for Genetically Engineered Bentgrass Creeps through Agency Turfs	HTML	PDF
Symposium on Biosafety of GMOs: Highlights	HTML	PDF

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December 2004

Late Breaking Announcement: Funding Opportunity	HTML	PDF
Can Transgenic Crop Technology Benefit Biocontrol?	HTML	PDF
Impact of Bt cotton on Bollworm Populations and Egg Parasitism	HTML	PDF
Enhancing Stress Tolerance by Regulon Engineering of ABA-Responsive Genes	HTML	PDF
All-Native Plant DNA Transformation	HTML	PDF
Silk Purse from a Sow’s Ear? Spider Silk Production in Tobacco	HTML	PDF
Conference on Plant-made Pharmaceuticals	HTML	PDF
The Role of Biotechnology for the Characterisation and Conservation of Crop, Forestry, Animal and Fishery Genetic Resources	HTML	PDF

November 2004

Novel Genes for Control and Deterrence of Sucking Insect Pests	HTML	PDF
Designer Constructs for T-DNA and Dissociation (Ds) Mediated Insertional Mutagenesis in Plants	HTML	PDF
Aberrant mRNA Expression of Maize Rust Resistance Gene in Wheat and Barley	HTML	PDF
Biotech Bug Conference Speakers Call for Regulation and Public Involvement	HTML	PDF
Continued Losses Put Pressure on Monsanto Product Launch	HTML	PDF
The Center for Food Safety Refutes Criticisms of its GM Rice Report	HTML	PDF

October 2004

National Research Initiative: Animal Protection Funding Opportunity	HTML	PDF
Biosafety Considerations in the use of Genetically Modified Organisms for Management of Animal Populations	HTML	PDF
The Development Of The D-amino Acid Selectable Marker System	HTML	PDF
T7 RNA Polymerase-Based Overexpression of Foreign Genes in Plants	HTML	PDF
HOS9 Mediated Cold Acclimation Outside the CBF Regulon	HTML	PDF
Plant-made Pharmaceuticals: Progress and Protests	HTML	PDF
Biotechnology & Biodiversity Symposium and Discussion Educates Conservation Biologists	HTML	PDF
The Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology (PIFB) Posts Archived Webcasts	HTML	PDF

September 2004

Improved Nitrogen Assimilation using Transcription Factors	HTML	PDF
Transgenic Plants with No Foreign DNA	HTML	PDF
A New Strategy for Glyphosate Tolerant Crop Plants	HTML	PDF
Determining the Safety of Transgenic Insects	HTML	PDF
Upcoming Meetings	HTML	PDF

August 2004

How Fit Are Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes?	HTML	PDF
Enhanced Drought Tolerance in Transgenic Rice	HTML	PDF
Biotechnological Improvements of Teas	HTML	PDF
Regulating Plant Genes and Agbiotech Products — International Style	HTML	PDF
India Produces Indigenous 'GM Cotton'	HTML	PDF
Molecular Marker Assisted Selection Documentn	HTML	PDF

July 2004

Gene Flow from Transgenic Bt Corn to Non-Bt Corn Refuges	HTML	PDF
Immunomodulation Confers Herbicide Resistance in Plants	HTML	PDF
Transgenic Plants Produce Omega-3 and Omega-6 Fatty Acids	HTML	PDF
Canadian Supreme Court Wraps Up David vs. Goliath Case: This Time the Giant Wins	HTML	PDF
8th International Symposium on the Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms	HTML	PDF
Biotechnology 2004: 12th International Biotechnology Symposium and Exhibition	HTML	PDF

June 2004

Assessing the Impact of GM Plants: The Effect of Transgenic Protease Inhibitors on Non-Target Invertebrates	HTML	PDF
Enhanced Tolerance to Abiotic Stress in Transgenic Tobacco by Overexpression of a Zinc-Finger Protein Gene from Rice	HTML	PDF
Towards Switchable Crops: Beyond the Green Revolution	HTML	PDF
Pharmaceutical Protein Production in Hen Eggs	HTML	PDF
GloFish, the First GM Animal Commercialized: Profits Amid Controversy	HTML	PDF
Turf Wars and Other Conflicts in the U.S. Regulation of GM Plants	HTML	PDF

May 2004

The Ecological Society of America Voices its Concerns	HTML	PDF
Gene Flow from Cultivated Rice: Ecological Consequences	HTML	PDF
Genetically Modified Mammals Produce Heart-Healthy Fats	HTML	PDF
Transgenic Fish by Electroporation	HTML	PDF
Efforts to Advance UK GM Plant Approvals Come a Cropper	HTML	PDF
Addendum to April Article on Rhamnolipid Expression	HTML	PDF

April 2004

Genetically Modified Sperm in Fish	HTML	PDF
Genetically Modified Male Mating Advantage and the Trojan Gene Effect in a Fish	HTML	PDF
Rhamnolipid Expression: The Potential for Edible Phytoremediation Crops and Beyond	HTML	PDF
Making Genetic Modification Safe for New Zealand – And Vice Versa	HTML	PDF
Toxic Verdicts for a Toxin Patent	HTML	PDF
Book Review: Consequences of Crop-Wild Hybridization	HTML	PDF
FAO e-mail conference: Biotechnology in Food Processing	HTML	PDF

March 2004

Biotechnology Biodiversity Interface Grants: Request for Applications	HTML	PDF
Regulation of Ag Biotech Crops and Food in the United States	HTML	PDF
Comparing Environmental and Health Burdens of Traditional vs. GM Beet	HTML	PDF
DNA-based Methods in Sorghum Diversity Studies and Improvement	HTML	PDF
GMOs Spawn Regulatory Challenges	HTML	PDF

February 2004

APHIS Solicits Public Comment on Proposed Genetically Engineered Organism Environmental Impact Statement	HTML	PDF
Environmental Impact of GM Herbicide-tolerant Crops: The UK Farm Scale Evaluations And Proposal For Mitigation	HTML	PDF
Bioengineering of the Root-soil Interface: A Hairy Story	HTML	PDF
The Chicken Genome Symposium	HTML	PDF
Poultry Research in the Post-Genome Era	HTML	PDF
GM Crops Continue to Breed Controversies	HTML	PDF

January 2004

SPECIAL ISSUE Workshop Report: Extending the Net Fitness Model to Considerations of Crop Gene Flow

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December 2003

FDA Releases Draft Summary of Risk Assessment for Animal Cloning, Holds Public Meeting of its Advisory Committee	HTML	PDF
Reversibly-Sterile Fish via Transgenesis	HTML	PDF
Relative Fitness of Glyphosate Resistant Creeping Bentgrass Cultivars in Kentucky Bluegrass	HTML	PDF
Transformation by the Floral Dip Method	HTML	PDF
Agbiotech: Mistrust in the UK, Green Light in Brazil, and Antitrust in the US	HTML	PDF
USDA Establishes New Biotechnology Compliance And Enforcement Unit	HTML	PDF
Upcoming Meetings: Annual Meeting of the Weed Science Society of America	HTML	PDF
Upcoming Meetings: Global Biotechnology Forum	HTML	PDF
Upcoming Meetings: Comparative Genomics of Plants	HTML	PDF

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November 2003

Insect Resistance to Bt Crops: Lessons from the First Seven Years	HTML	PDF
Generating Semi-dwarf Rice by Genetic Manipulation of Gibberellin Metabolism	HTML	PDF
Influence of Organic Acid Exudation in Alfalfa on Aluminum Tolerance, Nutrient Acquisition, and Bacterial Diversity	HTML	PDF
Heavy Metal Tolerant Transgenic Plants	HTML	PDF
Three Brittle Pigs	HTML	PDF
ISB Announces New and Enhanced Databases	HTML	PDF

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October 2003

Making Decisions on the Release of GM Crops	HTML	PDF
GM Foods: Treading Water in the Stream of Commerce	HTML	PDF
RecA and Transgenic Livestock Production: A Method to Improve Efficiency	HTML	PDF
Benefits from Transgenic Maize Resistant to Corn Rootworm	HTML	PDF
Tailoring Modern Biotechnologies for Resource-Poor Farmers	HTML	PDF

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September 2003

USDA to Require Permits for All Industrial Biotech Plants	HTML	PDF
Assessing the Risks of Transgene Escape: A Case Study in Sunflowers	HTML	PDF
A Short Route to Gene Discovery in Trees: Control of Stature through Gibberellin Catabolism	HTML	PDF
Production of Human Serum Albumin in Transgenic Crops Without Interfering with Food or Feed Production	HTML	PDF
Six Bills to Treat GM Ills	HTML	PDF

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August 2003

Emerging Terminology – Words Are Never Enough	HTML	PDF
How to Improve Plant Protein Quality: Err on the Side of Goodness	HTML	PDF
Engineering for Reduced Saturated Fatty Acids in Oilseed Crops	HTML	PDF
Transgenic Aspen Trees with Altered Lignification: Good News for Pulp and Paper Industry	HTML	PDF
Laccase Transfection for Antifungal Properties in Crops	HTML	PDF
US Files SOS with WTO: End EU's GM Moratorium ASAP	HTML	PDF

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July 2003

A Strategy for Transgene Containment in Plants Based on the Repression of a Seed-Lethal Component	HTML	PDF
Transgenic Potatoes Resistant to Coleopteran and Lepidopteran Pests Through the Use of Single Hybrid Bacillus thuringiensis cry Gene	HTML	PDF
Antibiosis-type Insect Resistance in Transgenic Plants Expressing a Gene from a Hymenopteran Endoparasite	HTML	PDF
The Status of Biosafety in Africa	HTML	PDF
FAO-BiotechNews, now available in French and in Spanish	HTML	PDF
Crop Composition Database	HTML	PDF

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June 2003

Increasing Vitamin C Content of Plants Through Enhanced Ascorbate Recycling	HTML	PDF
Chloroplast Evolution, Genetic Manipulation and Biosafety	HTML	PDF
Jumping into the Nucleus Silences Plastid Genes	HTML	PDF
Cultivating Ground Rules for Biopharming	HTML	PDF
Public Meeting: Genetically Engineered Forest and Fruit Trees	HTML	PDF
Conference: UC-Davis Transgenic Animal Research Conference IV	HTML	PDF
Conference: 8th Biotechnology 2003 Educators' Conference	HTML	PDF

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May 2003

FAO E-mail Conference — Regulation of GMOs	HTML	PDF
Weighing the Economic Costs and Benefits of Bt Cotton in South Africa	HTML	PDF
Two Genes for One Protein: Application of Ssp DnaE Split Intein in Plant Genetic Engineering	HTML	PDF
Agrobacterium tumefaciens-Mediated Transformation of Temperate Forage Grasses	HTML	PDF
Regional Suppression of Insect Pests with Bt Crops	HTML	PDF
Risky Genomics: The Roles of Risk/Benefit Assessment and Rational Decision Frameworks	HTML	PDF

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April 2003

Emerging Plant Biotechnologies: Dealing with the Sequence Glut	HTML	PDF
Enhanced Photosynthesis and Growth of Transgenic Plants That Express a Cyanobacterial Gene	HTML	PDF
Bt Crops Can Have Substantial Yield Effects	HTML	PDF
Status of Development of Transgenic Aquatic Animals	HTML	PDF
Biotech Legal Disputes: Past, Present, and Promised	HTML	PDF
New Journal Fills Unique Scientific Niche	HTML	PDF

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March 2003

Genetically Engineered, Embryo-Specific Lethality for Insect Pest Management	HTML	PDF
Silkworms Produce Human Type III Procollagen	HTML	PDF
Transgenic Cows Overexpressing Beta and Kappa Caseins in Milk	HTML	PDF
Engineering Rice Plants With Trehalose-Producing Genes Improves Tolerance To Drought, Salt, And Low Temperature	HTML	PDF
Salt Tolerance Transferred from Wild Triticeae Species into Wheat	HTML	PDF
Transforming Wheat: Riding a Superbinary Vehicle on the Polyamine Route	HTML	PDF
Upcoming Meetings:
Management of Pest Resistance: Strategies Using Crop Management, Biotechnology and Pesticides	HTML	PDF
The Impact of Genetically Modified Plants (GMPs) on Microbial Communities	HTML	PDF

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February 2003

Workshop Examines Biotechnology-derived Perennial Turf and Forage Grasses	HTML	PDF
Gene Flow from GM to Non-GM Populations in the Crop, Forestry, Animal and Fishery Sectors	HTML	PDF
Coping with Cold: Multiple Regulatory Pathways Activated During Cold Acclimation in Arabidopsis	HTML	PDF
Temporary Immersion Bioreactor as a Tool for Pineapple Transgenic Plants Selection	HTML	PDF
Glomalin: A Future Area of Transgenic Plant Research	HTML	PDF
Who Moved the Cheese? Canadian Supreme Court Tells Oncomouse to Go Home	HTML	PDF
Help Us Spread the Word	HTML	PDF

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January 2003

Special Issue

Executive Summary: ISB Workshop on Criteria for Field Testing of Plants with Engineered Regulatory, Metabolic, and Signaling Pathways	HTML	PDF
ISB – BRARG Workshop Announcement	HTML	PDF
Upcoming Meetings	HTML
BRARGP FY 2003 Request for Applications	HTML	PDF
Curator Refutes the Results of Report Presented in ISB News Report	HTML	PDF

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December 2002

USDA Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grants Program FY03 Update	HTML	PDF
Report on Talk to the United Nations	HTML	PDF
Engineering Fruit Quality via Novel Genetic Intervention	HTML	PDF
The Fingers of Gene Regulation in Plants	HTML	PDF
Gene Modification of an Endogenous Gene in Rice Plants	HTML	PDF
Enhanced Resistance to Water Deficit Stress in Transgenic Tomatoes	HTML	PDF
Transgenic Pigs Expressing Human Decay Accelerating Factor	HTML	PDF
Don't Panic—It's Organic	HTML	PDF

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November 2002

Will Food Products from Cloned Animals be Commercialized Soon?	HTML	PDF
Emerging Biotechnologies: Upgrading the Terminator	HTML	PDF
Crop Improvement Through Alteration in the Photosynthetic Membrane	HTML	PDF
Abnormal Gene Expression in Cloned Mice	HTML	PDF
Where's the Beef? Transgenic Cattle Produce Human Immunoglobulins	HTML	PDF
Let the Facts Speak for Themselves	HTML	PDF
FAO E-mail Conference—Biotechnology and Research	HTML	PDF

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October 2002

Biotechnology and Genetically Modified Crops at the World Summit on Sustainable Development	HTML	PDF
Hypoallergenic Foods - Soybeans and Peanuts	HTML	PDF
Appellate Courts Find RoundUp-Resistant Patent Claims Irresistible	HTML	PDF
Bt Cotton in South Africa: Adoption and Impact on Farm Incomes Amongst Small- and Large-Scale Farmers	HTML	PDF
Farm Level Transgenic Crop Adoption Rates In South Dakota	HTML	PDF

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September 2002

FAO and Agricultural Biotechnology	HTML	PDF
Biotechnological Interventions for Dryland Agriculture: Opportunities and Constraints	HTML	PDF
Implications of Pollen Research to APHIS Pharmaceutical Corn Regulations	HTML	PDF
CAST Report Reviews Environmental Impacts of Biotechnology-Derived Crops	HTML	PDF
Return of Hybridization Claims (Enzo II) and Other Biotech Patent News	HTML	PDF
NRC Releases Report on Scientific Concerns Posed by Animal Biotechnology	HTML	PDF

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August 2002

ISB Workshop Suggests Strengthening and Broadening of Net Fitness Model	HTML	PDF
A Conceptual Framework For Implementing Biosafety	HTML	PDF
APHIS Reorganizes Biotechnology Unit	HTML	PDF

Workshop Considers Field Testing of Complex Genes	HTML	PDF
Voices of the South and North	HTML	PDF
Chemically Inducible Expression of Bt Genes	HTML	PDF
Transgenic Mosquitoes Inhibit Parasite Development	HTML	PDF
Will the Oncomouse Squeak Through the Supreme Court of Canada?	HTML	PDF
Genes for Africa: Genetically Modified Crops in the Developing World	HTML	PDF

June 2002

GMOs and Gene Flow	HTML	PDF
Half-Seed PCR	HTML	PDF
Re-Emerging Biotechnologies: Rehabilitating the Terminator	HTML	PDF
Genetically Modified Foods	HTML	PDF
Agbiotech Labeling Bills Introduced	HTML	PDF
Upcoming Meeting: Pharming the Field: A Look at the Benefits and Risks of Bioengineering Plants to Produce Pharmaceuticals	HTML	PDF

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May 2002

Transgene Movement, Introgression, and Promoter Hopping	HTML	PDF
Pruning Back Transgenes	HTML	PDF
Sleeping Beauty and the Mouse	HTML	PDF
India Gives Nod for Bollgard Cotton	HTML	PDF
Don't Bank on ATCC Deposit to Support DNA Patent Claims	HTML	PDF
Upcoming Meeting: The Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms	HTML	PDF

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April 2002

The Maturation of Agricultural Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research
Plant GM Technology Web Site Announced
Emerging Trends: Metabolic Engineering
Nontarget Impacts of Bt Corn: A Risk Assessment
Cloning Updates
Litigation in the Wind

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NRC Report Suggests Improvements to Federal Oversight of Transgenic Plants
Report of Transgenes in Mexican Corn Called into Question
Joint Statement on the Mexican GM Maize Scandal
Joint Statement in Support of Scientific Discourse in Mexican GM Maize Scandal
Bt Corn Poses "No Significant Risk" to Monarchs
Edible Foot and Mouth Vaccination from Transgenic Plants
Mammalian Cells Express Spider Silk Proteins
Inventors Hash Out Priority for Cloning Technology and Other Biotech Law News
Upcoming Meetings
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February 2002

Potential Environmental Risks and Hazards of Biotechnology
Transgenes—By No Easy Means
Phytoremediation Of TNT
FAO Listserv
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January 2002

2001 World Review of Agbiotechnology
The Future of Transgenic Plants
Use of G1 Donor Nuclei Improves Viability of Cloned Cattle
End of the Year Brings Good Tidings For Plant Utility Patents
Battles and Skirmishes in the Biotech Patent Arena
Upcoming Meetings
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December 2001

Emerging Technologies – Cheaper Ways To Access Genomes
Engineering Salt Tolerance in Crop Plants
Retroviral-Mediated Gene Transfer into Male Germ-Line Stem Cells
US Mulls Over Plant Utility Patents, While Biotech Gets Mixed Support in the EU
The Indian Biosafety Regulations on GMOs Under Test
US Field Tests, Petitions Search Now Available as Excel File
Upcoming Meetings
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November 2001

Evaluation Of US Biotechnology Regulatory Process
Reporting In: New Zealand Government Outlines Policy On Genetic Modification
Engineering A Shared Pathway To Salt And Drought Tolerance In Plants
Tandem Gene Orientation Reduces Transcription Interference
Potential Environmental Risks And Hazards Of Biotechnology
Life Sciences And Biotechnology–A Strategic Vision For The European Union
Upcoming Meetings
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October 2001

Changing of the Guard at ISB
BRARG Program Recipients Announced
Transgenic Plastids As Expression Factories In Biotechnology
Progress Towards a Truly "Green" Method of Toxic Metal Cleanup
Transgenic Animal Researchers Convene
The Enviropig
Application of DOE is Getting Dear
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September 2001

Bioindication with Transgenic Plants
Plants Fight Disease in the New Millennium
Bidirectional Expression Vector for Plants
European Commission's Proposed End to Moratorium Arouses Lively Debate
Reporting In: The New Zealand Royal Commission on Genetic Modification
Obiter Dictum Anyone?
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August 2001

ISB Hires Project Manager
New Release: A Practical Guide to Containment
Emerging Plant Biotechnologies: New Ways to Find Needles in Haystacks
Transgenically Enhanced Cotton Fiber Strength Exhibits Vanishing Act
Environmental Influences on Gene Silencing
Release of Bt Cotton in India Delayed
How Biotech is Affecting Grain R&D, Markets
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July 2001

Transgenic Food Allergies: The CDC Report On Cry9C
Emerging Technologies: The Minimum Use of Force in Plant Genetic Engineering
An Iron Rice that Survives the Alkaline Test
Web-Weaving Plants
Modifying the Sheep Genome by Gene Targeting
Seeds of a Canadian Judicial Conflict: An Update
Upcoming Meetings

June 2001

Biotechnology: Present Position and Future Development
Transgenic Pollen Escape—Need for Consequence Assessment Instead of Containment
Lethal Trichomes
Biotechnology in the Garden
Environmentally Friendly Transgenics
US, Canada Face Biotech Wheat Showdown
Upcoming Meetings

May 2001

"Harvest of Fear"
Transgenic Insect Release 2001
Reexamination of Pest Resistance Management Models Advised
Fate and Effects of the Insecticidal Toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis in Soil
Arabidopsis Research Bears Fruit in Orange Trees
GNA Expressing Potatoes
Upcoming Meetings

April 2001

"Safety First" Workshop Explores Proactive Governance of Genetic Engineering
World Economic Forum Davos 2001
Old And New Breeding Attack Tropical Rice Virus
Transgenic Trout Vary In Their Response To Growth Hormone Overexpression
The Royal Commission Of Genetic Modification In New Zealand
New EU GMO Rules Passed
Segregating Grain In A Post-Starlink World
New ERS Report Explores Economic Issues In Agbiotech
Upcoming Meetings

March 2001

Engineering Multiple Genes in a Single Transformation Event
Cross-Pollination Leads to Triple Herbicide Resistance
Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus As A Gene Expression Vector
Results of Six-Month Review of Federal Biotechnology Policy Released for Comment
Outcry Over Cry9C
The StarLink Incident: Changing the Face of the US Grain Industry

February 2001

USDA Announces Risk Assessment Research Grants
Cloned Gaur Dies
Emerging Technologies In Plant Biotechnology
Engineered Chloroplasts Snip Out Antibiotic Resistance Genes
The Vision Of An Edible Vaccine For Hepatitis B Starts To Come Into Focus
Plants That Detect Landmines, And Other Biosensors
Transgenic Milk Containing Lysostaphin: A Possible Cure For Mastitis?
Premarket Notice Concerning Bioengineered Foods
Identity Preservation And Product Segregation Procedures

January 2001

World Agricultural Biotechnology Highlights of 2000
Genetically Modified Crops and Foods: AMA Report
Can "Stealth" Approaches Defeat GISMOS?
Fungicidal Potatoes
Crop Scientists Report Research Headway on FHB Grain Disease
Biotech Feeds Undetectable in Food Products
Insecticides to Target Insect Life Cycle

December 2000

A Promising Debut For Bt Hybrid Rice
Green Drug Factory Not Far Afield
Gene Technology In The Land Down Under
Biotechnology Policy In Ireland—An Example To Europe?
Colombia Puts First Legal Transgenic Crop In Ground
Upcoming Meetings
Position Announcement

November 2000

"Consensus Conference" Helps Public Debate Biotechnology
Green Plastic
Red Tobacco Gets Green Light
Plant Viral Infection Inactivates Transgenes Controlled by the 35S Promoter
Cloned Mice Show No Signs of Premature Aging
Proper Record Keeping is Essential to Establish Inventorship
Updated Briefing on Biosafety Protocol: Canadian and European Positions
Upcoming Meetings

October 2000

Unapproved Corn Slips Through Regulatory Net
Council for Biotechnology Information Request for Proposals
Potato Packs High-Protein Punch
Building Better Trees Through Hormones
The Tale of the Five Little Pigs and Xena, the Porcine Princess
Transgenic Animals Now Eligible for Canadian Patent Protection
New ICGEB Services Now Available

September 2000

NRC Holds Workshop on Ecological Monitoring of GM Crops
Chlorophyll Fluorescence in GM Crop Analysis
Mitochondrial DNA Heteroplasmy in Cloned Cattle
A Growth Factor Gene that Increases Ovulation Rate in Sheep
The Precautionary Principle: Legal Doctrine or Rorschach Inkblot Test?
Biopharmaceuticals from Tobacco: Profiling CropTech Corporation
Progress Made in Using Biotech to Solve FHB in Wheat and Barley
Upcoming Meetings

August 2000

NAS and Six Sister Academies Release Report on Transgenic Plants and World Agriculture
What Do You Get When a Chicken Gene is Put into Maize?
Cyanogen Reduction in Transgenic Cassava
Gene Expression on Target in Sheep
Reversal of Fortunes
"New" Cargill Remains Committed to Biotech
Sunflower Industry Survival May Hinge on Biotechnology
Upcoming Meetings

July 2000

Comments Sought on Monsanto Glyphosate Tolerant Corn Line
Amylase-inhibitor as a Natural Pest Control Agent
Transgenic Tobacco Plants Tolerant to Heat Stress
Nontarget Effects of Bt Corn Prove Manageable
European GMO Regulations: A Victim of Biopolitics?
Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research, Inc.
NY Times Web Site on GE Food
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June 2000

OECD Conference on GM Food Safety
Plant Genetics Opportunity
Engineering Herbicide Resistance by Targeted Modification of a Plant Gene
A New Era for Rice Research
Transgenic Tobacco Requires Less Phosphorus Fertilizer
Cloning Reverses Cellular Senescence
Administration Announces Sweeping Assessment of Federal Agricultural and Food Biotech Regulations
T25 GM Maize: The Kernel of UK Biopolitics
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May 2000

Colombia Biosafety Council Takes on Training
Noble Foundation, NCGR Release First Round of Medicago Truncatula ESTs
Metabolically Modified Rice Exhibits Superior Photosynthesis and Yield
Chloroplast Expression of Therapeutic Proteins Proves Highly Efficient
Insect Resistance and the Future of Bt Transgenic Plants
Is RIDL the Answer?
The Monarch Report from USDA
Congressional Report on Biotechnology
Academia Provides Answers to Biotechnology Questions
Scientists Unite for Biotechnology
Upcoming Meetings

April 2000

USDA Announces Risk Assessment Research Grants
Report on GMOs at World Economic Forum
The Story of the Sheep That Roared and the Five Little Pigs
Commercialization of Path-Breaking Transgenic Salmon Faces Stumbling Blocks
Tobacco Engineered for Resistance to the Herbicide Acifluorfen
Boosting Phytoestrogens a Boon for People and Plants
Keeping Up with "Genetically Modified" News
A "Substantial" Challenge to GM Food Regulations
BASF Investing in Potential of Agbiotech
Upcoming Meetings

March 2000

US Food Labeling Bill Stirs Debate
Cattle Cloned from Adult Ear Fibroblasts
Modified Gene Stimulates Pig Growth
The Turn of the Century Brings Good News for Plant Patent Applicants
Gene-shuffling Companies Do Well on Wall Street
Meeting: Agbiotech: The Science of a New Century
Meeting: 15th Australasian Biotechnology Conference; ABA2000
Meeting: 6th International Symposium on the Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms

February 2000

ISB Receives Science Magazine Commendation
Global Treaty Adopted on Genetically Modified
EPA Restrictions on Bt Corn Announced
$180 Million Dedicated to USDA Projects
Roger Beachy Named R&D's "Scientist of the Year"
Attacks on GE Research Facilities Heat Up
A Sweeter Deal Than Expected from Transgenic Sugar Beets
Tandem Constructs for Superweed Prevention
New Troubles for Bt Corn?
In Search of Horizontal Gene Transfer
Production of Foreign Protein in Seminal Fluid
GM Product Labeling Caters Food for Thought

January 2000

New Millennium Greetings from ISB
Annotated List of Web Sites
Biotechnology Discussion Groups Online
Patent Web Sites
Update: The Internet as a Tool in Biotechnology Business Development

December 1999

Food for Thought
Potential Impacts of Pollen from Bt Corn
Molecular Farming Goes Underground
The Good News about Bt Corn
Gene Flow Between Cultivated and Wild Beet
Teaching Plants to Cope with Salt
Hurdles in the Race to Patent New Genes
AgBiotech Debate Impacting Corporate Landscape
Upcoming Meetings

November 1999

Call for Writers
Fish-Tailed Strawberries and Four-Legged Corncobs
Indian Farmers Not Against Biotech Crops if Advantageous
International Notes
Gene Targeting in Livestock for Production of Novel Biopharmaceuticals
Plant Genetics Boosted by NSF Grant to Carnegie Institution, NCGR
FDA Announces Public Meetings on Bioengineered Foods
USDA/APHIS Seeks Public Comments on Status of Agritope Cantaloupe Lines
Update on Agbiotech Venture Fund
Upcoming Meetings

October 1999

Foreword
Executive Summary
Berries
Brassica crops
Cereal Grains
Cucurbits
Grasses
Poplar
Sunflower
Overall Conclusions
Ordering Information

September 1999

Paper on Bt Resistance in Corn Borers Challenged
Fixing Plant's Own Genes
Look Mom! No Antibiotic Marker Genes!
Internet Usage and Patent Confidentiality
Supreme Court Backs States' Immunity
Government Responds to FOIA Targeting Research Data
Company Pursues Ag Licenses to Support Pharma Research
Upcoming Meetings

August 1999

Just A Reminder
Good News for GMOs From the Southern African Economic Summit
Potential Hazard in Specifying Authors' Contributions
Telomere Length in Dolly, the Cloned Sheep
Bioprospecting: Not a Minor Issue
Ag Company Rides Ups and Downs of Biotech Rollercoaster
Upcoming Meetings

July 1999

That's Survey (Uh-huh, Uh-huh) I Like it
Butterfly Brouhaha
A New Inheritance Pattern for Bt Resistance
Gene Silencing Hinders Bioreactor Potential
Job Searching in Agricultural Biotechnology on the Internet
Upcoming Meetings

June 1999

ISB Current and Coming Attractions
Glickman Seeking Candidates for Biotechnology Advisory Committee
Super Rice Bioengineered at the International Rice Research Institute
Goats Butt Their Way into the Cloning Parade
Poor Survivability Still Hampers the Clones
Of Mice and Men
Major Patentability Issue Sprouts from a Seed Sale
Biotechnology Customer Service Meeting
Monsanto Feels Impact of European Concerns
Upcoming Meetings

May 1999

Biotechnology in Latin America After Cartagena
Overcoming Insect Resistance to Bt
Enzyme Inhibitor Protects Plants from Fungi
Gene Vectors—Agents of Transformation
Field Study on Transgene Release
Life Sciences Preprint Archive May be on the Horizon
Companies, Corn Growers Finalize IRM Measures for Bt Corn
DuPont Acquires Pioneer Hi-Bred
Upcoming Meetings

April 1999

Benefits of GMOs Lost Amidst Spreading Opposition
Activists Oppose Transgenic Plants in India