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July 2010

Scientists to Spend Sh82 Billion GMO Food
20 July 2010 The Standard
The crop technology collaboration will include working on higher-yielding cotton and beans, with the first drought-tolerant corn expected from 2012.

$31 Million Biotech Center to Benefit Crops, Food, Energy
16 July 2010 University of Adelaide
Their research will significantly enhance biotechnologies that underpin crop industries, associated food industries, and emerging industries related to renewable transport fuels and biomaterials.

Monsanto Looks For Partnerships with States to Reach Out To Farmers
15 July 2010 Business Standard
Monsanto has earmarked an annual fund of Rs 5,000 crore for biotech research for its global operations and each market draws 10 per cent of the total sales from this fund.

Monsanto Completes Key Regulatory Submission for Soybeans With Dicamba Herbicide Tolerance Trait
13 July 2010 Monsanto
The company announced today that it recently completed regulatory submission to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for dicamba-tolerant soybeans. Monsanto expects to complete regulatory submission to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and key global markets in the coming months.

Scientists Discover How Fungus Kills Wheat
13 July 2010 Farm Chemicals International
To stop this genetic reaction, the scientific team has developed DNA molecular markers for rapid screening of commercial cultivars for the Tsn1 gene.

Virus-Resistant Cassava Could be Available by 2015
09 July 2010 Sci Dev Net
The team conducted field trials in Uganda that have shown that genetically engineered (GE) tobacco plants resist mosaic disease.

Glowing Crops Could Minimise Pesticide Use
08 July 2010 Sci Dev Net
Scientists have genetically engineered the natural immune system of the tobacco plant to make it change colour or glow in the presence of viruses, bacteria and other pathogens known to reduce crop yields, which normally force farmers to apply costly pesticides.

GM Plantings Explode
08 July 2010 The Land
The advent of commercialised genetically modified (GM) canola cropping in Western Australia in 2010 has seen the national GM canola acreage more than treble, according to Australian Oilseeds Federation (AOF) estimates.

BASF Plant Science and Monsanto to Expand Their Collaboration in Maximizing Crop Yield
07 July 2010 Monsanto
Today, BASF and Monsanto Company announced an expansion of their joint efforts to develop higher-yielding and stress-tolerant crops to include a fifth crop, wheat.

Adoption of Biotech Crops by U.S. Farmers Continues to Rise
01 July 2010 BIO
American farmers continue to enthusiastically choose genetically engineered (GE) crops over their conventional counterparts, according to a new USDA report.

Bill CFC $230 Million for Protecting Us
01 July 2010 Western Farm Press
Easily, biotech alfalfa has saved Barcellos $200 per acre per year alone in replanting costs.

Ambitious GM Rice Project Enters Next Phase
01 July 2010 Sci Dev Net
An international consortium aiming to re-engineer rice to increase yields by 50 per cent is about to move into the second phase of its decades-long project.

Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops in the U.S.
01 July 2010 USDA
Soybeans and cotton genetically engineered with herbicide-tolerant traits have been the most widely and rapidly adopted GE crops in the U.S., followed by insect-resistant cotton and corn.