Archived News

2009

Effects of Glyphosate-Resistant Crop Cultivation on Soil and Water Quality
31 December 2009 Landes Bioscience Journals
Glyphosate and its degradation product, aminomethylphosphonate (AMPA), residues are not usually detected in high levels in ground or surface water in areas where glyphosate is used extensively. Furthermore, both glyphosate and AMPA are considered to be much more toxicologically and environmentally benign than most of the herbicides replaced by glyphosate.

Rapid Change for US Farming as Technology Comes to the Fore
31 December 2009 Farmers Weekly
Every farmer appeared willing - and even keen - to make use of the latest technology, whether this was genetically modified crops or GPS controls for his equipment.

Farmers Look to Biotechnology to Battle Climate Change Challenges
31 December 2009 BioSpectrum Asia
Through biotechnology, seeds yield more per acre, plants naturally resist specific insect pests and diseases, and farmers use less energy.

Monsanto Offers Missouri Farmers a Chance to Give
30 December 2009 Booneville Daily News
Through the program, farmers can win the opportunity to direct $2,500 award to a local non-profit organization that’s important to them and their community.

Biotech Industry Set To Ride On Global Economic Recovery
29 December 2009 Bernama
Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Dr Maximus Ongkili recently said that under the second phase of the National Biotechnology Policy, the contribution would increase to 2.5 per cent of the GDP.

Kansas Wheat Reviews Year
29 December 2009 WIBW
Monsanto, one of the world's largest agriculture biotech companies, bought WestBred in August, promising to invest heavily in traditional and biotech wheat variety research and development

Breeding Crops For The Next Decade
28 December 2009 Farmers Guardian
Worldwide there are traits already identified in wheat, which with GM technology, and a refocusing of investments, could provide a significant yield boost within 10 years he maintains.

Sub-Saharan Africa's Promise is Growing
28 December 2009 The News Journal
Biotech seeds are improving yields and reducing pesticide use; new seeds will soon require less water

Scientists Start a Genomic Catalog of Earth’s Abundant Microbes
28 December 2009 The New York Times
Using this new evolution-based approach, the scientists have discovered many kinds of genes, some of which may prove a boon to the biotechnology industry.

Top Picks for 2010: Monsanto (MON)
24 December 2009 Blogging Stocks
"Monsanto (MON) is my top investment idea for 2010," says Sy Harding, an advisor well-known for his seasonal timing strategies.

ICAR Holds its 81st Annual General Meeting
23 December 2009 Press Information Bureau
Crop improvement programmes resulted in release or identification of 131 varieties of major food crops for different agro-climatic regions of the country, besides a few varieties in plantation and horticultural crops.

Monsanto Company Sets Webcasts for 2010 First-Quarter Financial Results and Upcoming Presentations on R&D Pipeline Updates
23 December 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company today announced it will issue the company's financial results for its fiscal 2010 first quarter on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010, prior to market open.

U.S. Soybean Farmers Feeding the World
23 December 2009 Southeast Farm Press
The soybean checkoff’s Biotechnology Initiative also plays a role in giving U.S. soybean farmers the tools they need to feed the growing population. This initiative works to improve market access for U.S. biotech soybeans and to educate about the importance biotech crops will have in feeding the world.

Gina Mallet: Food and its Future
23 December 2009 Kelowna
Jonathan Rauch describes in The Atlantic the entirely beneficial environmental impact of Monsanto's Roundup Ready on soybean crops: "Equipped with Roundup Ready crops, farmers found that they could retire their ploughs and control weeds with just a few applications of a single, relatively benign herbicide – instead of many applications of a complex and expensive menu of chemicals."

Noughtie but Nice
22 December 2009 Spiked
GM isn’t the only answer to feeding the world and providing new sources of energy (through specially created plants for biofuels), but it could be a vital element of the solution to both hunger and ‘clean’ energy.

The Truth About Organic Farming
22 December 2009 Nutrition Wonderland
Other GMOs have similar goals; making rice flood-tolerant so occasional flooding can replace herbicide use as a means of killing weeds, for example.

Date Palms to be Classified on Genetic Profile
22 December 2009 The Peninsula
After the successful genome mapping of date palm, early this year, the experts at the Weill Cornel Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) are set to make a unified scale based on genes to standardise date palm classification.

Vistive III Soybeans Present New Oil Option for Food Industry
18 December 2009 Prairie Farmer
According to Monsanto director of food applications Rick Wilkes, this new soybean has the potential to greatly improve the healthfulness of fried foods.

CIP Publishes Online Database for Potato and Sweetpotato
18 December 2009 Crop Biotech Net
It contains passport data, such as the origin and availability of germplasm, characterization data, molecular marker data (SSR), and the entire list of worldwide distributions of CIP held germplasm.

Monsanto’s Grant Named One of World’s Top CEOs
18 December 2009 St. Louis Business Jouranl
Since becoming chairman, president and CEO in 2003, Grant has overseen Monsanto’s growth as a leading seed-and-trait provider in large-acre crops, including corn, cotton and oilseeds.

Climate Action: Canada's Farms Part of Solution
17 December 2009 The Star Phoenix
For example, the 2007 reduction in emissions from adopting biotech canola in Canada was equivalent to removing 781,000 cars from the road for a year.

Pvt Seed Breeders Line Up for Plant Variety Protection
17 December 2009 The Hindu Business Line
If to this, Monsanto's 26 per cent stake in Mahyco is added, it translates into a substantial multinational presence in the country's hybrid seed business.

Farmers Look to Biotechnology to Battle Climate Change Challenges
16 December 2009 BIO
Despite mounting challenges brought on by climate change, farmers around the world are increasingly being aided by modern agricultural practices, such as biotechnology.

Food is Fundamental: Ag Stocks for the Next Decade
15 December 2009 ONN TV
John said he liked buying Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM), Monsanto (MON) and Bunge (BG) for exposure to the soybean market in a seasonally strong period, and because these were companies at the center of the world’s next crisis and investing opportunity: food.

Can Meta-analysis Help Biosafety Research?
15 December 2009 The ePerspective
By that I mean simply that GM crops are more precisely engineered, have far fewer and less random changes than conventional crops, and are far more thoroughly researched; indeed pre-market safety reviews are not required for non-GM crops even though they have more numerous, random, and potentially disruptive mutations in their DNA.

Monsanto Announces Deltapine Class of 10 Cotton Varieties Class Holds Potential to Increase Cotton Profitability
14 December 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company announced today that the Deltapine Class of 10 will include six new cotton varieties.

Agricultural Biotechnology Can Ensure Food Security: Experts
14 December 2009 Thaindian News
At a two-day conference on ‘Modern Biotechnology in Indian Agriculture’ starting Monday, biotechnology experts pointed out that agricultural biotechnology would modernise agriculture, increase crop yield, enhance the livelihood of farmers and make food affordable.

EU Takes a Step Towards Re-Embracing GM
14 December 2009 Stock & Land
The recent approval of a number of biotech corn varieties in the European Union (EU) is a step in the right direction for a resumption of trade in US feed ingredients such as distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) and corn gluten feed for the current marketing year, according to the US Grains Council (USGC).

Oil Palm Tree is Sequenced Here
14 December 2009 St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Scientists in St. Louis have helped sequence the genome of the oil palm tree, a feat they hope will lead to better production of the world's most widely consumed edible oil.

Ukraine Officially Accepts the First Application for State Registration of GMO
14 December 2009 SeedQuest
The Ukrainian Ministry of health care has officially accepted the first application for state registration of GMO intended for food use.

Biotech Workshop
13 December 2009 Express Buzz
During the twoday workshop, leading national and international scientists will share information on the developments in modern biotechnology in Indian agriculture; research, need and benefits on crops such as brinjal, cotton, rice; and the socio-economic impact of GM crops.

EU Approves Biotech Events
11 December 2009 Feedstuffs
The recent approval of a number of biotech corn varieties in the European Union (EU) is a step in the right direction for a resumption of trade in U.S. feed ingredients such as distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) and corn gluten feed for the current marketing year, according to the U.S. Grains Council.

Great Lakes Hybrids to Offer New and Expanded Seed Technologies
11 December 2009 California Farmer
The new product lineup combines Great Lakes Hybrids high-performing seed genetics with the latest Genuity biotechnology traits from Monsanto Company.

Agriculture Experts: Farmers Will Need to Double Food Output
11 December 2009 Greeley Tribune
Genetic modified soybeans, corn, cotton lint and canola saw an increase production of 32 million metric tons in 2007. Without those newly developed hybrids, it would have taken an addition 29 million acres of land under production to meet the same kind of gains.

Watermelon: Fruit on the Fast Track
11 December 2009 USDA
Their findings have resulted in the first reported large-scale study that identified and characterized key genes regulating watermelon growth and development.

Bangladeshi Agric Minister Bats for Biotech
11 December 2009 Crop Biotech Net
Bangladeshi Minister for Agriculture Begum Matia Choudhary stressed on the benefits of genetically modified crops at the 24th Foundation Day of the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) on December 8, 2009.

Transgenic Cassava Plants Resist Pathogen and Insect Attacks
11 December 2009 Crop Biotech Net
Researchers at the National Taiwan University have developed tobacco plants with dual resistance to the bacterial soft rot disease caused by Erwinia carotovora and damping-off disease caused by Pythium aphanidermatum.

Press Conference for 4th China Bioindustry Convention 2010
11 December 2009 Crop Biotech Net
New bio-pharmaceutical products are being developed, GM crops are substantially increasing, and a number of high-tech industry clusters such as bio-manufacturing, bio-energy and bio-environmental protection are flourishing.

Bt Brinjal is a Safe Breakthrough: Indian Minister of S&T
11 December 2009 Crop Biotech Net
India's Union Minister of Science & Technology Prithviraj Chavan describes Bt brinjal a safe breakthrough in an exclusive interview in the latest issue of BiotechNews, an official news portal of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt of India.

Ghana Identifies Need for Biotech in Agriculture
11 December 2009 Crop Biotech Net
Biotechnology has been identified as one of the technologies that must be used for the "rapid development" of agriculture in Ghana.

Carbon Monoxide Enhances Plant Tolerance to Iron Starvation
11 December 2009 Crop Biotech Net
Carbon monoxide (CO) has been shown to regulate some biological processes in animals such as vasomotion, respiratory regulation and thermoregulation.

Monsanto: Corn Refuge Acres Decrease From 20 to 5 Percent
09 December 2009 Seeking Alpha Blogs
The reduction in refuge acres for Monsanto's new SmartStax could make an immediate impact for corn farmers.

Science Conclave 2009 Begins in Allahabad
09 December 2009 Merinews
The introduction of foreign genes encoding for resistance against pests and pathogens can reduce the degradation of the environment due to the use of hazardous biocides.

Biotech Could Be The Solution to Ethiopia's Agriculture
09 December 2009 Ethiopian Review
In China, for small-scale farmers adopting biotech cotton, on average, yield increased by 9.6%, use of insecticide decreased by 60% and generated an income of USD 220 per hectare.

Biotech Crops Improving Sustainability: US Study
08 December 2009 Stock & Land
Biotech crops also facilitated greenhouse gas emission reductions of 14.2 billion kilograms of carbon dioxide in 2007 - the equivalent of removing 6.3 million cars from the road for a year.

Monsanto Reiterates Confidence in Ability to Reach 2012 Financial Targets and Reaffirms 2010 Guidance
08 December 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company is on track in its operational path to reach its 2012 financial commitments, President and CEO Hugh Grant will tell investors today.

2009 Harvest Data Demonstrate Yield Advantages of Monsanto Seed Genetics and Cutting Edge Trait Technologies in Corn and Soybeans
08 December 2009 Monsanto
Corn and soybean harvest results for 2009 confirm that Monsanto Company seed products maintained a significant yield advantage compared with competitors, and new technologies such as Genuity™ SmartStax corn and Genuity™ Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans are delivering a step change in performance.

Korea, Taiwan Approve Key GMO Import
08 December 2009 Farm Chemicals International
Two more key regulatory milestones have been reached for the 2010 commercial launch of seed-trait combination SmartStax. Monsanto Co. and Dow AgroSciences, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Co., received import regulatory approvals from Korea and Taiwan for corn grain produced from SmartStax.

Brazilian Farmers Turn to GM Soybeans, Bt Corn
08 December 2009 Agriculture Online
The 2009-10 planting of genetically modified seeds exceeded the cultivation of conventional crops in Brazil, shows a country-wide survey conducted by RPC Crop Expedition PRC (a Brazilian media company).

Monsanto Company Declares Quarterly Dividend
07 December 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend on its common stock of 26.5 cents per share.

SmartStax Corn Receives Import Approvals for Korea, Taiwan
07 December 2009 Monsanto
Two more key regulatory milestones have been reached for the 2010 commercial launch of SmartStax™, the corn industry’s eagerly anticipated seed trait combination.

Country on Verge of Another Green Revolution?
05 December 2009 The Times of India
Principal scientist National Research Centre (NRC) Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) New Delhi Dr NK Singh said: "The application of biotechnology, bio-informatics and genetic engineering can change the face of agriculture in next two decades and a beginning has already been made in the country with the completion of rice genome sequencing programme in 2005."

Farmers Biotech Network Urge Europe's Leaders to Invest in Biotech Agriculture
04 December 2009 Crop Biotech Net
In particular, the Network called on several urgent measures, notably: the immediate stop to GM bans across Europe; accelerate the processing and approval of GM applications in the EU; and ensure an open debate about the future of agriculture policy for Europe.

GM Crops: China, EU OK
03 December 2009 Delta Farm Press
China and Europe have approved use of genetically modified crops. Europe approved imports of soybeans and China approved plantings of corn. Demand should increase.

Govt Looks to Transgenic Tech to Boost Pulses Production
03 December 2009 Live Mint
Thanks to Bt cotton’s success, the government is quite convinced of the advantage of transgenic technology.

Time to Cultivate Africa’s Agricultural Productivity
01 December 2009 The New Vision
GM seeds are designed to withstand bad environmental conditions and to survive droughts, disease and insects.

Turkey Officially Lifts Ban on Biotech Imports
01 December 2009 US Grains Council
Turkey’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs released a directive Wednesday, Dec. 16, repealing the Oct. 26, 2009, regulation that restricted market access of products with biotechnology derived content.

Biotech and Gender Issues in the Developing World
01 December 2009 Nature Biotechnology
Already transgenic glyphosate-resistant maize has become a hit among women farming in South Africa, who can now spray down more weeds in a day than they could hoe in a backbreaking month.

Monsanto's Brett Begemann to Address Investors at CITI Basic Materials Symposium
30 November 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company will hold a webcast this Wednesday, Dec. 2, in conjunction with a presentation by Brett Begemann, executive vice president - Seeds & Traits, at Citi's Basic Materials Symposium.

Blessings and Challenges: Science Holds the Key
30 November 2009 St. Louis Post-Dispatch
We must quickly work individually and collectively to make agriculture more productive and sustainable. My passion — fundamental research — can enlarge understanding of how plants and livestock work at the molecular and cellular levels (and how they can be modified to supply food, fuel and other products, while preserving our environment).

Engineered Edible Cottonseed Could Feed Millions
30 November 2009 Associated Press
The new seeds can be eaten by pigs, chickens, fish and humans and could show up in protein bars, shakes, breads, cookies and other foods within about 10 years. The amount of cotton already grown worldwide contains enough protein to feed 500 million people per year, researchers said.

Wild Elephants Won’t Stop This Biotech Crop
30 November 2009 Des Moines Register Blogs
It is on a few acres of this farm where scientists plan next year to try out a plot of corn lines that are being genetically engineered to yield better than conventional hybrids when rainfall is insufficient, a common problem throughout east Africa with corn, a staple food crop that isn’t particularly well suited to the region because of the lack of reliable precipitation.

Top Rice Producer China Approves GMO Strain
27 November 2009 Reuters AlertNet
The approval of the locally-developed rice, as well as China's first GMO corn, shifts the global balance of power in food trade and could prompt other countries to follow suit, experts said.

Jordan Welcomes Safe Use of Biotech Crops
27 November 2009 Crop Biotech Net
Jordan needs to speed up its efforts to maximize the benefits of biotechnology.

Burkina Faso Farmers Gaining from Bt Cotton
27 November 2009 Crop Biotech Net
The farmers also noted that compared to conventional cotton which requires on average 8 sprays, Bt cotton requires at most two sprays of pesticides.

Carrot and Onion Growers Hear Scientist Say GM Technology is Key to Future
27 November 2009 Horticulture Week
Speaking at the Onion & Carrot Conference held in Peterborough last week, Crute told delegates that genetics "is one of the most sensible forms of technology", which can help the industry solve many problems, such as the need for improved pest and disease resistance.

UN Eyes Next Steps On Food Security; Biotech Pleased With Summit Mention
26 November 2009 Intellectual Property Watch
Paragraph 26 of the declaration recognised that the increase of agricultural productivity is key to meeting food demand and resources needed to increase productivity will have to be mobilised including “the review, approval and adoption of biotechnology and other new technologies and innovations that are safe, effective, and environmentally sustainable.”

An Indian Farmer Speaks Out: The Future of India Depends on GM Seeds
26 November 2009 Fresh Plaza
Because of these qualities, GM brinjal will help us produce better and safer food.

2 Bt Cotton Varieties to be Available for Kharif Season
26 November 2009 Daily Times
For the first time the Ministry of Environment has given Pakistan the official status of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) country after it developed two varieties of indigenous genetically-modified Bt (bacillus thuringiensis) cotton, official sources told Daily Times on Wednesday.

Why GM Crops are Better
25 November 2009 Business Spectator
Now, the US Food and Drug Administration is considering an application to allow the cultivation of a variety of genetically modified soybeans that contains significantly lower levels of saturated fat and eliminates trans fats.

Monsanto Executives to Address Investors at December Events
24 November 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company will hold a series of webcasts in conjunction with three investor events next month. Executives will discuss the company's business performance and operational path, financial targets, product performance and other matters related to the business during the presentations.

‘More Stress-Tolerant Paddy in Future’
23 November 2009 Express Buzz
Earlier the biggest challenge was flood, but subsequently other factors like salinity after frequent cyclones and sea water surge, temperature rise and drought like situation in western Orissa districts have put the challenge before rice researchers to incorporate these genetic factors in the plant, he said.

Time to Push for Positive Perspective on GM Crops
23 November 2009 The Scotsman
For me, the potential biotechnology offers is incredible and, as we continue to unpick the genetic complexities, the opportunities explode exponentially.

BT Brinjal Opens New Avenues for Farmers and Consumers
23 November 2009 Financial Express
Due to large acreage and susceptibility of the crop to FSB, GM technology with BT gene appears to be best option. It is expected that the usage of this technology will reduce 60-70% of the pesticide usage.

Solving Hunger With Super-Rice
22 November 2009 The Globe and Mail
His work could erase lingering doubts about the fundamental aspects of rice's relationship with salt, which must be resolved before genomes are actually altered to avoid disaster when the re-engineered seeds finally hit the field.

GM Wheat Worth it: Monsanto
22 November 2009 The Land
Dr Glick said advances in wheat breeding needed to utilise both conventional and GM breeding techniques.

The Next Green Revolution Needs Willpower
21 November 2009 Examiner
Fortunately, there is a groundswell of farmers and scientists who are beginning to stand up and say they need biotech crops to not only feed their families, but also the world.

Malaysia Taps ICGEB To Train Biotech Scientists
21 November 2009 Bernama
Malaysia is initiating deeper alliance with the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) to train more local scientists in the area of treating tropical diseases.

Anti-Mine Microbes?
20 November 2009 The Phnom Penh Post
Bioengineered bacteria that glow green in the presence of explosives could someday give Cambodia a safer, cheaper way to detect land mines, Scottish researchers say.

UA Receives $4.9 Million for Study of Maize Genetics
20 November 2009 Inside Tucson Business
The National Science Foundation granted more than $4.9 million to a project where the University of Arizona is the lead institution to use maize as a model to identify the gene networks that control endosperm development and function during the first eight to 10 days after pollination.

GM Crops Have a Role in Preventing World Hunger, Chief Scientist Says
19 November 2009 The Independent on Sunday
GM crops have a role to play in preventing mass starvation across the world caused by a combination of climate change and rapid population growth, a senior government scientist said yesterday.

Biotechnology-regulations: A Pressing Imperative for Developing Countries
19 November 2009 The Jamaica Gleaner
Work is also advanced in the enhancement of nutrition in GM foods, such as improved provitamin A, iron, zinc and vitamin E content, along with high-quality protein in conventional food crops. This opens the prospect of saving millions of lives and improved mental development, especially among children and women.

Washington U. Scientists Help Unravel Corn Genome
19 November 2009 St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The sequencing of the corn genome will enable seed companies and corn geneticists to better find the genes that express certain traits – such as the ability to better tolerate drought or yield more starch.

How to Feed the World
19 November 2009 The Economist
But one way of raising yields stands out: developing genetically modified (GM) crops that, for example, use less water.

‘International Opinion Supports GMOs, Organics Coexistence'
19 November 2009 Visayan Daily Star
In an Asian farmers exchange in August, scientists at the Philippine Rice Institute explained that “golden rice”, named as such because of its yellow gold appearance resulting from its high beta carotene content, can also help address malnutrition concerns in the country.

Scientists Unlock Clues for Tailoring Corn Plant for Food, Energy Needs
19 November 2009 University of Florida
The result could boost scientists’ ability to custom-tailor corn for specific traits, such as high protein content for human consumption or high glucose content for biomass fuel.

Bishops Back Environmentally Safe Rice Research
18 November 2009 Union of Catholic Asian News
The prelate noted "a gradual evolution" toward acceptance as it became apparent GMO offers food safety and security as well as environmental sustainability.

UF Grape Research Aims to Push Wine, Grape Industries Beyond Climate and Pest Obstacles
18 November 2009 University of Florida
Gray’s research now emphasizes cisgenic genetic modifications, which means using plant genes only from a particular species — for example, grape genes into grapes — to create an improved plant, such as one with heightened disease resistance.

Monsanto: Feeding the World
17 November 2009 The Street
With a rapidly growing world population, new seed technologies that provide for better crop yields will likely be critical to providing the world with sufficient food supply. Monsanto's(MON Quote) seeds and genomics segment, 56% of 2008 sales, is well positioned to benefit from the global population boom.

GM Crops Not Just For Rich Farmers
17 November 2009 Stock Journal
Dr Glick said both first generation traits, such as herbicide resistance, and traits close to being rolled out, such as drought tolerance and nitrogen efficiency, would aid poor farmers.

Economics of Genetically Modified Crops
17 November 2009 Reuters India
Eventually, GM technology is bound to be part of our lives because it is the best option to increase production without additional land or water.

Genetically Modified (GM) Rice at IRRI
16 November 2009 IRRI
The International Rice Research Institute believes that genetic modification and genetically modified rice have the potential to safely deliver unique benefits to rice farmers and consumers that cannot be achieved through other breeding methods.

Soybeans May Sub for Fish as Source of Heart-Healthy Fatty Acid
16 November 2009 Bloomberg
Monsanto Co., the world’s largest seed producer, genetically engineered soybean plants to produce oil that helps boost levels of one such acid and can be added to food for a healthier diet.

Biotech Crops Making Important Contributions to Food Production & Sustainable Farming
16 November 2009 PG Economics via Truth about Trade & Technology
Biotech crops have contributed to significantly reducing the release of greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural practices.

Protecting the Future: How Plant Stem Cells Guard Against Genetic Damage
16 November 2009 John Innes Centre
Scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK, have shown how plants can protect themselves against genetic damage caused by environmental stresses.

Weeds Could Help to Feed the World
16 November 2009 University of Manchester
Since crops such as wheat, rice and barley are less able to track the environment, they may be unable to express the gene that triggers production of the protein GPT2. The team believe that ultimately, we could breed this ability into those plants through genetic modification or a selective breeding programme.

GM Crops 'Only Way to Tackle 2025 Crisis'
14 November 2009 The Scotsman
That statistic caused Andrew Watson, chairman of the Association of Independent Crop Consultants, to claim this week that the only way to feed the extra mouths was to use genetic modification to increase crop yields.

Attitudes to GM Crops are Changing: Glick
13 November 2009 Stock & Land
Dr Glick said he believed food security would be one of the largest issues confronting the world in the face of rising populations and said a suite of technologies needed to be used to meet the challenge.

Using Advanced Crop Technology to Increase Food Output
12 November 2009 The Daily Star
Of especial interest are the genetically engineered crop seeds, which promise far greater yield per acre as well as better ability to fight and grow in extreme weather conditions.

Improved Agricultural Science Key for Food Production Increase
12 November 2009 Farmers Weekly
The use of improved agricultural science and technology, including GM crops, will be crucial for a long-term sustainable food supply, a panel of experts at the British Crop Production Council congress agreed during a debate.

Monsanto Completes U.S. Regulatory Submissions In Support Of Vistive III Soybeans That Produce Healthier Cooking Oils
12 November 2009 Monsanto
This second-generation product builds on Monsanto's existing Vistive product and would provide food companies with a healthier, more stable soybean oil for frying and baking that contains significantly lower levels of saturated fat and eliminates trans fats.

First GM Canola in WA Delivered to Bins
12 November 2009 Farm Weekly
Mr Fulwood said he was pleased with the crop’s overall agronomic performance and its high oil content.

Predicting the Environmental Effects of Transgenic Bt Crop Lines
12 November 2009 USDA
The new ARS study demonstrated that carefully controlled laboratory tests can accurately detect toxicological risks that might emerge in the field, thereby reducing the need for more expensive and time-consuming tests.

BCPC 2009: Food Security Challenge ‘Cannot Be Met Without GM’
11 November 2009 Farmers Guardian
World leaders will have ‘no chance’ of dealing with the long-term food security problem if they ignore science, including GM technology, a spokesman for the biotech industry has warned.

Monsanto Reconfirms 2010 Guidance and 2012 Financial Commitments on Strength of Larger Expected Launches for Blockbuster Products
10 November 2009 Monsanto
The positive mix lift expected as farmers choose to upgrade to next-generation technologies allows Monsanto Company to reconfirm its commitment to double its 2007 gross profit in 2012, Monsanto President and CEO Hugh Grant will tell investors today.

UA Leads Cassava Root Research Team
10 November 2009 Arizona Daily Star
University of Arizona researchers will lead a team to study the genes of the cassava root.

MPOB And Orion Complete Sequencing Of Three Oil Palm Genomes
09 November 2009 Bernama
The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) and Orion Genomics on Monday announced that a consortium co-led by the Advanced Biotechnology and Breeding Centre has sequenced three oil palm genomes from two palm species, an important food and biofuel crop.

UPLB Chancellor Bats for Biotech Crops in Marginal Lands
09 November 2009 Manilla Bulletin
University of the Philippines-Los Baños (UPLB) Chancellor Luis Rey Velasco says the country must use biotechnology to develop crops ready to confront climate change as well as make marginal productive.

Monsanto to Purchase Chesterfield Village Research Center From Pfizer
09 November 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company and Pfizer Inc today announced that they have entered into an agreement for Monsanto to acquire Pfizer's Chesterfield Village Research Center located in Chesterfield, Mo.

Drought Resistance Explained
09 November 2009 European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Their study, published online today in Nature, could open up new approaches to increasing crops' resistance to water shortage.

Iowa State University Researcher Discovers Key to Vital DNA, Protein Interaction
09 November 2009 Iowa State University
A researcher at Iowa State University has discovered how a group of proteins from plant pathogenic bacteria interact with DNA in the plant cell, opening up the possibility for what the scientist calls a "cascade of advances."

Monsanto Puts Across GM Case
06 November 2009 Farmers Guardian
He was part of a project that developed high starch potatoes, high solid tomatoes and higher oil in oilseeds in 1989 and believes new technologies are coming through to provide human and environmental sustainability.

CropLife Canada Booth Shows Why Plant Sciences Matter
06 November 2009 CropLife Canada
CropLife Canada is at this year's Royal Agricultural Winter Fair to tell Canadians about the benefits of modern plant sciences like genetically modified crops and pesticides and to answer questions people may have about these products.

East Malling Scientist Professor Jerry Cross Endorses GM Crops
06 November 2009 Horticulture Week
But for diseases such as scab on apple and mildew, Cross said that cisgenesis technology, a form of GM technology where only genes that are already present in varieties of the same plant are transferred, offers "very important opportunities" for growers.

GM Grass Trial Aims to Cut Cows' Gas
06 November 2009 The New Zealand Herald
A plan to grow paddocks of genetically modified grass created to cut the greenhouse gases produced by cows is in the pipeline at Crown-owned company AgResearch.

Bid to Revive Ailing Cotton Industry with GMO Variety
06 November 2009 Business Daily Africa
The country is edging closer towards the adoption of the GMO cotton variety in a move that might boost production in the ailing sub sector.

Getting A Glimpse of Future Precision Farming Tech
05 November 2009 Farmers Weekly
GM crops had the ability to reduce inputs, be better for the environment, offer higher profits and in turn drive investment into even better plants, he said. "If you want a more precise form of farming, you need to start with the plant."

Sweetpotatoes Get High-Tech Help
05 November 2009 USDA
In addition to creating genetic maps of sweetpotato, Scheffler and his postdoctoral associate will use a high-throughput DNA sequencer to develop a sweetpotato microarray for studying where, when and how certain genes are expressed.

Study Reveals How Plants and Bacteria ‘Talk’ to Thwart Disease
05 November 2009 UC Davis
Unwrapping some of the mystery from how plants and bacteria communicate in this dance of immunity, scientists at the University of California, Davis, have identified the bacterial signaling molecule that matches up with a specific receptor in rice plants to ward off a devastating disease known as bacterial blight of rice.

Monsanto Opens First Biotechnology Research Center in China
04 November 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company announced today that it is opening its first research center in China, further demonstrating its commitment to forming technology collaborations in the country

Monsanto Breaks Ground on Lubbock Cotton Research Facility
04 November 2009 Monsanto
Those are the goals of Monsanto Company's $10.5 million research "megasite" in Lubbock, where the company broke ground on the site today. The megasite will provide a central point for the company's breeding and testing programs in the High Plains region.

The NewLeaf Potato
03 November 2009 Monsanto
Potatoes are an important crop and there may be a day in the future when Monsanto re-enters the potato business. Market demand will be one factor in that decision.

Monsanto Company Sets Webcasts for Biennial Investor Event
03 November 2009 Monsanto
During presentations at the event, company executives will discuss Monsanto's strategic initiatives, financial targets, product performance, research and development pipeline and other matters related to the company's business.

Cucumber Genome Published: Guide To Pumpkin, Melon And Plant Vascular System
03 November 2009 Science Daily
The genome of the cucumber has been sequenced by an international consortium lead by Chinese and U.S. institutions.

Roundup Flex Pima Cotton Released
03 November 2009 Western Farm Press
Roundup Flex Pima cotton has been released by Monsanto for planting in 2010 in California.

Food, More Food, Good Food
03 November 2009 Biotechnology and Biosafety Information Center
One of the major new plant breeding tools is genetic modification (GM) where genes are added to crops to protect them against environmental stresses, to protect them against pests and diseases, and to increase the yield and quality of the harvested products.

Biotechnology for Sustainability Biotechnology for Sustainability
03 November 2009 Tomorrow's Table
A recent comprehensive study by the Keystone Center examined five criteria for sustainability (energy use, soil loss, irrigation water use, climate impact, and land use) and found that corn, cotton, and soybeans all improved between 1997 and 2007, a period during which GE varieties became dominant in these crops.

UK Scientist Seeks Food Security in Climate Deal
02 November 2009 Reuters
Watson said increasing the use of biofuels, improving the understanding of second and third-generation biofuels, trade reform, reducing waste and helping small-scale farmers in developing nations, as well as exploring the potential for genetically modified crops were all important.

Peasant Agriculture is Incompatible with Economic Development; Africa Needs GM Crops
31 October 2009 African Agriculture
GM is not a panacea, but it offers the prospect of developing varieties that can not only cope with climate change but are resistant to the fungi and pests that currently destroy so much of harvested crops in storage.

Race on for GM Crops to Solve Shortages, says Monsanto
30 October 2009 The Australian
Agricultural technology company Monsanto hopes to double crop yields by 2030 as well as reduce the amount of fertilisers, chemicals and water used by a third, by combining conventional plant breeding with genetically modified lines.

Monsanto's YieldGard VT® Corn Technologies Receive European Union Regulatory Approval
30 October 2009 Monsanto
onsanto Company welcomed today the European Union authorization of two of its corn technologies, YieldGard VT Pro™ (MON 89034) and YieldGard VT Rootworm/RR2® (MON 88017).

Food Crisis Forces Changes on GM Crops
29 October 2009 allAfrica
If we are able to take advantage of the new technologies that are becoming available, using molecular biology tools, or using biotechnology tools and products, Africa should be able to achieve a green revolution.

Chickens Immunised by GM Peas
29 October 2009 BioMed Central via Checkbiotech
Genetically modified peas that can protect chickens against a common infection have been successful in trials, say scientists.

Global Harvest Initiative Aims to Close Productivity Gap
27 October 2009 Stock & Land
Chief executive officers of four leading agricultural companies launched the Global Harvest Initiative in September to work collectively with public and private entities in an effort to close the imminent productivity gap to meet the needs of a growing and more affluent world population.

Food for Thought
27 October 2009 ABC News
Quite simply, GM crops are easier to grow than regular varieties and for this reason they are becoming an increasingly popular choice for farmers.

Monsanto Company Board Sets Record and Meeting Date for Next Shareowners Meeting
27 October 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company announced today that its Board of Directors has designated Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010 as the date of the next annual meeting of shareowners.

World's First SDA Omega-3 Soybean Oil Achieves Major Milestone that Advances the Development of Foods with the Enhanced Nutritional Benefits
26 October 2009 Monsanto
In keeping with a commitment to deliver innovations for agriculture, food companies and consumers, Monsanto Company and Solae, LLC announced today that the companies have reached an important regulatory milestone that advances the development of foods containing the world’s first stearidonic acid (SDA) omega-3 soybean oil product.

Scientists Meet in St. Louis to Tackle Hunger
26 October 2009 St. Louis Business Jouranl
Fraley, which was scheduled to speak this morning, said he planned to share how Monsanto is working to solve the world’s food shortages through modified seeds and drought-resistant crops with the goal of doubling crop yields by 2030.

A Genetically Modified Proposal
26 October 2009 Forbes Commentary
Maybe there's some good news ahead: This week, the Royal Society, the U.K.'s National Academy of Science, has released a report that calls for the acceptance of genetic modification on the farm.

Genetically Speaking
25 October 2009 Financial Express
Coincidental with the steep increase in adoption of Bt cotton between 2002 and 2008, the average yield of cotton in India, which had one of the lowest yields in the world, increased from 308 kg per hectare in 2001-02, to 560 kg per hectare in 2007-08 and projected to increase to 591 kg per hectare in 2008-09 season, with 50% or more of the increase in yield, attributed to Bt cotton.

How Philippines Mountain Slopes were Converted into Rich Bt Corn Fields
23 October 2009 Indian Express
Authorities claim that introduction of Bt Corn in the province, that also produces rice like most other parts of the 7,000-odd islands’ archipelago, has led to the production rising by four tonnes per hectare to 12 tonnes per hectare in less than five years, increasing their incomes from a meager 10,000 Pesos (Philippines currency) to 30 to 40,000 Pesos annually. Across Philippines, Bt Corn is now sowed on over 4 lakh hectares.

Vilsack Trumpets Changed Approach to Food Assistance
22 October 2009 AgriNews
"I am convinced biotechnology remains the key," Ritz said, citing genetically modified crops that use less fertilizer, less water and fewer pesticides.

Shape of a Hormone Sensor Helps Biologists Understand How Plants Survive Drought
22 October 2009 UC San Diego
Understanding the inner workings of this molecule may help scientists design new ways to protect crops against prolonged dry periods, potentially improving crop yields worldwide, aiding biofuels production on marginal lands and mitigating drought’s human and economic costs, the scientists say.

Commentary: Science Will Help Agriculture Meet World's Food Demand
21 October 2009 California Farm Bureau Federation
Biotechnology will help us reduce the use of fertilizers, protect the environment and use less water.

GM Research is Needed Urgently to Avoid Food Crisis, Says Royal Society
21 October 2009 The Guardian
Research to develop genetically modified crops must be stepped up as part of a £2bn "grand challenge" to avoid future food shortages, an influential panel of scientists said yesterday.

Campus Sustainability Day
21 October 2009 Agweb Blogs
How many people outside of the ag industry realize that family farms rely heavily on products like biotech Bt corn and glyphosate resistant corn and soybeans? A good review of the environmental benefits of biotechnology in crop production can be found in a report by PG Economics here.

The 'Super Crops' of the Future
21 October 2009 The Daily Telegraph
Scientists can take the genes that provide nutrients like Vitamin A in carrots or Omega 3 from fish oils and put it into a variety of crops.

Monsanto and Huazhong Agricultural University Enter Into Collaboration Focusing on Development of Plant Biotechnology
20 October 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company and Huazhong Agricultural University have entered into a collaboration to further the development of novel traits such as higher yield, drought resistance and nitrogen use efficiency.

Chief Scientist Says it Would Be 'Unwise' Not to Develop GM Crops in Britain
20 October 2009 The Daily Telegraph
He said the only way to do this is to grow more crops on less land by using the latest scientific innovation, including crops genetically modified to be drought or disease resistant.

Fischer Boel Slams Irish Stance on GM
20 October 2009 Irish Independent
The commissioner warned that delays in approving new GM crop varieties were restricting access to vital protein sources, such as soya, and would cost farmers millions of euro in higher feed charges this winter.

NSF Awards 32 New Projects for Plant Genome Research
20 October 2009 National Science Foundation

Global Impact of Biotech Crops: Income and Production Effects 1996-2007
19 October 2009 PG Economics via AgBioForum
Biotech crops have also made important contributions to increasing global production levels of the four main crops—adding, for example, 68 million tonnes and 62 million tonnes respectively to global production of soybeans and corn.

Genetically Modified Soybeans Setting Record Yield
17 October 2009 KOMU
This year's growth comes down to a variety of things, including good weather and more farmers using genetically-modified seeds.

Can GM Crops Lead The Second Green Revolution?
17 October 2009 Gerson Lehrman Group
Dr. Borlaug was convinced that GM fit the bill. “I believe genetically modified food crops will stop world hunger,” he said in 2002.

Aussies Told They Must Embrace GM Foods
16 October 2009 The Australian
Australians have been told they will need to embrace genetically modified foods as the world faces an uphill struggle to feed its growing population.

World Food Day
16 October 2009 Agweb Blogs
The other thing that must be done or we will never make any progress in combating world hunger is to help the poor backward countries improve their agricultural production.The other thing that must be done or we will never make any progress in combating world hunger is to help the poor backward countries improve their agricultural production.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack Host a Conference Call To Discuss Food Security on World Food Day
16 October 2009 U.S. Department of State
We believe that biotechnology has a critical role to play in increasing agricultural productivity, particularly in light of climate change.

Launch of £75m Fund for Crop Research
16 October 2009 Yorkshire Post
Yorkshire is already home to trials of genetically modified foods, with Defra-sanctioned experiments involving University of Leeds scientists currently taking place at a secret location in the county.

Biotechnology Is Key to Fighting Hunger, Clinton Says
16 October 2009 Bloomberg
Biotechnology will play a “critical role” in combating hunger, which has become a global security threat with more than 60 food riots worldwide since 2007, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.

Twelve Recipients Selected for Monsanto Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program
15 October 2009 Monsanto
The Monsanto Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program announced 12 recipients of the program's 2009 fellowships today at the Borlaug Dialogue at the World Food Prize in Des Moines, Iowa.

Gates Chides Critics, Defends Biotech Crops
15 October 2009 Des Moines Register
Bill Gates, the Microsoft chairman who is pouring part of his fortune into alleviating global poverty, defended the use of genetically engineered crops to help poor farmers increase food production.

Barnett Backs GM Canola Production
15 October 2009 Farm Weekly
WA Premier Colin Barnett wants to see Genetically Modified (GM) canola produced in WA, and personally supports its implementation.

Mexico Issues First Permits to Grow GM Corn
15 October 2009 Reuters
Mexico, considered by many to be the cradle of corn, issued permits on Thursday to grow genetically modified corn for the first time in a bid to eventually boost production of the grain.

Lack of Storage Capacity Causing Food Shortage
14 October 2009 Business Standard
Shantu Shantaram, senior research scholar, Princeton University, said over 90 per cent of biotech crop farmers who are from developing countries enjoy multiple benefits of biotechnology like higher yields and productivity, savings on insecticides and greater peace of mind.

Big Players Aim to End Global Hunger
14 October 2009 Agriculture Online
Both companies, along with Monsanto and John Deere, have started Global Harvest Initiative to find ways to meet the need for food 40 years from now, when the UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimates the demand for food will double from the current level.

Bt Brinjal Gets Biotech Regulator’s Approval
14 October 2009 The Hindu Business Line
In a significant development, the Indian biotechnology regulator Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) has given its green signal to the environmental release of Bt brinjal, the first genetically modified food crop to be allowed in the country.

Indian Go-Ahead for GM Food Crop
14 October 2009 BBC News
Indian regulators have for the first time approved the introduction of a genetically-modified (GM) food crop.

Genetic Map For Cowpea Accelerates Development Of New Varieties
14 October 2009 Science Daily
Now a team of scientists at the University of California, Riverside has responded to this challenge by developing a high-density "consensus genetic map" of cowpea that accelerates conventional breeding severalfold and facilitates the production of new varieties of not only cowpea but also other legumes, particularly soybean and common bean (near relatives of cowpea).

Uganda Produces First Ever Genetically Modified Cotton
13 October 2009 Ultimate Media via Checkbiotech
The Director of the research institute, Dr.Thomas Areke says Bt cotton that have ability to withstand bollworms and Ht cotton that tolerates roundup chemicals sprayed to destroy weeds were planted in July, in confined fields trial sites at Serere and Mubuku in Kasese district.

Unraveling of the Sorghum Genome will Help Improve Dryland Crops
13 October 2009 ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics)
The announcement of the unraveling of the genome of sorghum, one of the mandate crops of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), will strengthen the Institute’s research for the improvement of sorghum and other food crops.

Genuity™ VT Triple PRO™ Demonstrates Higher Yields, Improved Earworm Control in Early Harvest Results
13 October 2009 Monsanto
As Southern farmers harvest their trial plots of Monsanto’s new Genuity™ VT Triple PRO™ corn, many are reporting higher yields and improved insect control – particularly against corn earworm – compared with first-generation insect trait technologies.

Nanotechnology Used in Biofuel Processing
12 October 2009 UPI
U.S. scientists say they are using nanotechnology to improve the cellulosic ethanol processes involved in producing biofuels.

Trials Sought for GM Grasses Claimed to Cut Emissions
12 October 2009 Otago Daily News
AgResearch will soon seek regulatory approval for field trials of new transgenic grasses it claims could reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Tunisia Increases Biotech Area, Promotes Investment
12 October 2009 Farm Chemicals International
A report from Global Arab Network said that the strategy provides for extending areas of biological crops, especially after Tunisia’s June 2009 inclusion in the list of countries exporting biological products to the EU up to 2012.

Massive Increase in Global Biofuel Production
12 October 2009 Farmers Weekly
Global biodiesel production has increased ten-fold to 10.9bn litres per year over the last eight years and could double by 2012, according to a new report.

GM Foods: The Inevitable Revolution?
11 October 2009 Allianz Knowledge
Even if they don’t feed people directly, GM crops can help poor people feed themselves. “Increasing income of farmers contributes to the poverty alleviation of 70 percent of the world’s poorest,” says the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA).

Australia’s Biotech Revolution Means Improved Crops, Increased Yields
11 October 2009 The Gov Monitor
Biotechnology, genomics and phenomics are now emerging as key new technologies for developing even better varieties and helping ensure that yields continue to increase.

African Farmers Seek Help on Biotechnology
10 October 2009 Terra Viva
The scientists insist that biotechnology, if built into African staple food crops, could reduce the need for high cost of agrochemicals and water, two most elusive ingredients restricting agricultural productivity on the continent.

Monsanto Forecasts Africa to Increase Biotech Crop Planting
09 October 2009 Bloomberg
Monsanto Co., the world’s biggest seed producer, expects African countries to increase planting of genetically-modified crops to boost food security and economic development as the region is affected by climate change.

New Option Coming for Controlling Corn Earworms
09 October 2009 AgriNews
The all-in-one Genuity SmartStax trait provides growers with a broad spectrum of control for both above-ground and below-ground insect control with multiple modes of action by using Genuity VT Triple Pro and Herculex XTRA.

‘Yields of Tomorrow’ exhibits pipeline products
09 October 2009 AgriNews
Monsanto’s Farm Progress Show exhibit allowed visitors to see in plots what has emerged in crop technology.

Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Launches National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Announces Vision for Science and Research at USDA: Agricultural Science Poised to Make Major Contributions to Health,
08 October 2009 USDA
We can build on recent scientific discoveries - incredible advances in sequencing plant and animal genomes, for example. We have new and powerful tools -- biotechnology, nanotechnology, and large-scale computer simulations -- applicable to all types of agriculture.

Monsanto Delivers Earnings Per Share Increase; Outlines Seeds and Genomics Growth in 2010
07 October 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto affirmed its full-year ongoing 2010 EPS guidance is in the range of $3.10 to $3.30. Monsanto's full-year 2010 EPS guidance on an as-reported basis is in the range of $2.85 to $3.11. (For a reconciliation of 2010 EPS, see note 1.)

GM Crops: Top Ten Facts and Figures
07 October 2009 Allianz Knowledge
According to industry research, in 2007 GM crops saved 15.6 million tons of CO2 through reduced herbicide and pesticide use and reduced tillage, the equivalent of removing 6.3 million cars from the road.

Drought-hardy Maize Ready for Field Trials
06 October 2009 SciDev Net
The modified plant is expected to withstand environmental conditions that currently result in a greatly reduced harvest — such as late rains.

Harvest of GM Cotton Trials Underway in the Ord River Irrigation Area of Western Australia
05 October 2009 Western Australia, Department of Primary Industries via Checkbiotech
Cotton trials on the Department of Agriculture and Food’s research station near Kununurra are being harvested with yields comparing well against commercial crops elsewhere in Australia.

What are Bioengineered Foods - Genetically Modified Foods?
05 October 2009 24 Medica
Foods are bioengineered to meet many needs. Some of these include: - developing crops that can grow in varied climates. This makes certain food crops available all year and across many areas.

Record GM Canola Crop Expected
05 October 2009 ABC News
Australia is expected to produce 70,000 tonnes of genetically modified canola this season, a tenfold increase on the initial season.

India, Pakistan sow seeds of cooperation
04 October 2009 Hindustan Times
Genetically modified (GM) cotton may achieve what months of diplomacy between India and Pakistan could not: cooperation between the two countries.

Sowing the Seeds for a Better Future
04 October 2009 New Europe
The more open approach to GMs will also be welcomed by developing countries, where biotech (BT) crops have been cited as a solution to their hunger problems.

GM Crops Essential for Production Boost
03 October 2009 Gerson Lehrman Group
The only way forward for third world countries to increase yields is the wider adoption of GM crops without increasing the cultivated land area which means that the growth has to be vertical rather than horizontal.

Move to Allow Traces of Unapproved GMOs
01 October 2009 Irish Examiner
That will be one of the aims of a proposal she is expected to make, to reduce the maximum level for genetically modified (GM) residues in imported animal feed ingredients.

Cassava Virus Dealt a Blow in Southern Africa
01 October 2009 SciDev Net
South African scientists have engineered plants with resistance to a local cassava virus, potentially safeguarding one of the region's staple crops.

Bold Science Needed for Fertile Future
30 September 2009 The Age
Innovative technologies such as genetic modification have the potential to succeed.

Monsanto Company Sets Webcast and Analyst/Media Call for 2009 Fourth-Quarter and Fiscal-Year Financial Results
29 September 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company will issue the company's financial results for its 2009 fourth quarter and full fiscal year on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, prior to market open.

Vatican, Food Experts Say Biotechnology Will Improve African Farming
29 September 2009 Catholic News Service
African farmers should be able to use new biotechnology, including genetically modified organisms, to help lift their continent out of poverty, Vatican officials and agricultural experts said.

GM Will be Widespread by 2050 – FAO
28 September 2009 Farmers Guardian
The wider adoption of GM crops was seen as one area where farmers may increase production without bring more land into production.

2050 – Africa’s Food Challenge
28 September 2009 FAO
Transfer of know how and technology from rich to poor nations as well as increased investment in agricultural research are also paramount for progress to be made in tackling hunger and rural development.

Researchers Look to Enriched Crops to Solve Childhood Malnutrition
28 September 2009 Student Life
The group aims to identify the most effective ways to create and propagate more nutritious foods. Researchers are currently developing a strain of cassava—a staple source of food for 300 million Africans—that will be genetically engineered to produce more nutrients.

International Research Team Cracks Potato Genome
28 September 2009 The Associated Press
A global team of researchers has mapped the genetic code of the world's most popular vegetable — the potato.

Getting By On Little Water
28 September 2009 Chemical & Engineering News via Truth About Trade & Technology
Monsanto, for example, is in the final stage of commercializing drought-tolerant corn. Earlier this summer, in collaboration with Germany-based BASF, Monsanto issued a statement disclosing the identity of the gene that will lie at the heart of what the companies are calling the world’s first biotechnology-derived (meaning genetically engineered) drought-tolerant crop.

First Jatropha Genome Completed by Synthetic Genomics Inc. and Asiatic Centre for Genome Technology
25 September 2009 Synthetic Genomics Inc. via Checkbiotech
The sequencing of the genome, using both traditional Sanger sequencing and next generation sequencing, has revealed that the jatropha genome is approximately 400 million base pairs in size, similar to the size of the rice genome.

Mexico To Start First Genetically Modified Corn Plantings
25 September 2009 Dow Jones via Truth About Trade & Technology
Mexican agriculture authorities have given the green light to experimental plantings of genetically modified corn on 195 hectares by the end of the month, an Agriculture Ministry official said Friday.

Feeding the Future World
24 September 2009 Consumer Freedom
Producing 70 percent more food will inevitably require more advances in biotechnology, along with wider use of existing GM foods.

Agriculture Co's See Business Opportunity in Food Aid
22 September 2009 Reuters
Deere, along with Archer Daniels Midland Co, DuPont Co and Monsanto Co, competitors in the agricultural industry, have founded The Global Harvest Initiative with the goal of doubling agricultural output by 2050 to meet rising world demand.

Biotech Wheat Gains Supporters
22 September 2009 AgriNews
Biotech wheat development got a boost last week when producers, millers and bakers released an eight-page paper supporting the research.

Pest-Resistant Bt Brinjal Developed
21 September 2009 Times of India
A team of researchers at the University of Agricultural Science (UAS) here has succeed in genetically engineering a widely grown vegetable crop in the country to manage fruit and shoot borer pest with the development of six Bt brinjal varieties popular across three south-western states.

GMO Crops Can Help Climate and Environment, According to a New Report from the Danish Food Ministry
18 September 2009 Danish Food Ministry via Checkbiotech
The Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries has released a report on GMO’s showing that the production of genetically modified (GM) crops has the potential to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2.

Impact of Volunteer GM Maize on Conventional Crops is Low
18 September 2009 European Commission, Environment DG via Environmental Expert
A recent EU-supported study has analysed the development of volunteer or 'rogue' GM (genetically modified) maize plants in a conventional crop field. It finds that their numbers are low and do not exceed the EU's threshold of 0.9 per cent for incidental GM content.

Ag Groups Endorse Proposed Monsanto Mine
18 September 2009 Idaho Business Review
Scott Brown, vice president of the Idaho Grain Producers Association, said Monsanto’s Blackfoot Bridge Mine is doubly important in that Monsanto not only provides good-paying jobs and a solid tax base, but its glyphosphate-based herbicides also help farmers stay competitive and efficient.

New Clubroot Resistant DEKALB® Canola Hybrid Would Bring Welcome Relief to Alberta Growers
18 September 2009 Monsanto Canada
Farmers in Alberta looking for solutions to combat clubroot could have a new, high yielding clubroot resistant DEKALB hybrid available to them next spring according to Monsanto.

Monsanto Company Announces Approach to Chemistry to Help U.S. Farmers Manage Risk
17 September 2009 Monsanto
Today, Monsanto Company outlined changes to its Roundup brand agricultural herbicide business which are expected to result in more competitive offerings for U.S. farmers.

Brazil Approves New Varieties of GMO Corn
17 September 2009 Reuters
Brazil's biosecurity regulator, CTNBio, approved two new varieties of genetically modified corn on Thursday, both of which have been engineered to resist pests and glyphosate-based herbicide.

New Wheat Industry Paper Says Biotechnology Will Help Ensure Adequate Wheat Supplies
17 September 2009 U.S. Wheat Associates
Biotechnology has the potential to help reverse the loss of wheat acres in the United States and help ensure there will be adequate supplies to feed a hungry world. That is the conclusion of a new wheat industry analysis released Thursday.

Food Standards Agency to Consult Consumers on GM Foods
16 September 2009 Marketing Magazine
The FSA has been asked by the government to lead a dialogue project to explore the subject of GM with consumers. It will provide an opportunity to discuss with consumers their understanding of GM and what they think it might bring in terms of risks and benefits.

UK Government to Press EU on GM Crops
16 September 2009 British Free Range Egg Producers Association
The UK Government is pressing the EU to address the issue of GM crops to avert feed costs spiralling out of control.

The Real 'Green Revolution'
15 September 2009 National Post
Not only could GMOs increase food yield and make more countries self-sufficient, they could cut down on energy, water, fertilizer and pesticide use by producing crops that require little cultivation, little water and few if any fertilizers or chemicals.

Monsanto Shares Unprecedented Value on Farm With Investors and Growers, Recommits to 2012 Objectives
15 September 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company is sharing unprecedented value created on farm with both growers and investors as the company recommits to its 2012 objectives, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Hugh Grant will say today in prepared remarks.

Better World: Learn to Love Genetic Engineering
14 September 2009 New Scientist
Yes, there are other ways to improve nutrition and boost yields, but combining these methods with GM could make them far more effective.

Weeding out Marijuana: Researchers Close in on Engineering Recognizable, Drug-Free Cannabis Plant
14 September 2009 University of Minnesota
n a first step toward engineering a drug-free Cannabis plant for hemp fiber and oil, University of Minnesota researchers have identified genes producing tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive substance in marijuana. Studying the genes could also lead to new and better drugs for pain, nausea and other conditions.

EU Farm Chief Wants Biotech Proposal by End-2009
14 September 2009 Reuters
Already, Fischer Boel said the Commission has received positive feedback from the EU's scientific advisory body, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), on a variety of GM corn -- MON 88017 -- which she hopes will be quickly approved by member states.

Monsanto Among Top Rated Businesses for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Workers
14 September 2009 Monsanto
The number of businesses with perfect ratings based on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workplace policies and benefits rose by twenty percent in the past twelve months — despite the serious economic downturn — according to a new report released today by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization.

GM Dandelions for Allergy-Free Latex
14 September 2009 The Chemical Engineer
As a fungal infection threatens large tracts of the world’s rubber trees, researchers in Germany say that genetically-modified dandelions could prevent a global shortage in natural latex.

Norman Borlaug
13 September 2009 The Telegraph
But he saw genetic modification as only a refinement of old plant breeding methods and became a strong advocate of its possibilities, both to enable more mouths to be fed and to help the environment.

Husker Harvest Days Food Drive to Benefit Needy in Grand Island
13 September 2009 The Grand Island Independent
Heartland United Way is teaming up with Monsanto and the Farm Progress Companies in conducting a food drive during Husker Harvest Days. All food items will benefit the Grand Island area.

Monsanto Shares 2010 Guidance, Outlook For Roundup®
10 September 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company's Chief Financial Officer Carl Casale today will share guidance for 2010 that underscores the strength of the company's seeds and traits business as well as resets expectations for Roundup® and all other glyphosate-based herbicides.

College of Agric Challenged to Explore Genetically Modified Crops
10 September 2009 Ghana News
The Government has challenged the College of Agricultural and Consumer Sciences of the University of Ghana to explore the potential of genetically modified crops to help raise the level of food crop production in the country.

Potato Famine Blight DNA Decoded
10 September 2009 BBC News
Scientists have decoded the DNA secrets of the notorious pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine, which led to the deaths of a million people.

European Union Must get GMOs Moving, says Danish Food Minister
10 September 2009 Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fishers via Checkbiotech
Danish food Minister Eva Kjer Hansen believes that the Commission and the Council of Ministers should work together to speed up the approval of new, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and that the Commission should solve the food industry's problems arising from the EU's policy of absolutely zero tolerance with regard to GMOs that are not approved by the EU.

GM Pea Seeds Protect Against Parasites
10 September 2009 UPI
German scientists say they've created a breed of pea seeds that contain antibodies against coccidiosis, a disease caused by a parasite that attacks chickens.

Ancient Art, New Science: B.C. Researchers Explore the Genetics of Wine
10 September 2009 The Canadian Press
So with his colleagues at the university's wine research centre, van Vuuren developed a genetically modified yeast that can produce a bioamine-free - and headache-free - wine.

Monsanto Testing GM Corn as Animal Feed for India
08 September 2009 The Hindu Business Line
After introduction of the tech seed in 2002, Indian output has expanded by nearly 75 per cent to about 300 lakh bales, pushing the country ahead of the US to be ranked as the world’s second largest producer.

Crop Experimentation has Benefits
08 September 2009 Vanderhoof Omineca Express
Other GM crops such as soybeans, corn and canola are already well established and the potential benefits of extending the technology to wheat are potentially quite beneficial for both producers and consumers.

Monsanto Responds to “Fred Pearce’s Greenwash” From The Guardian Online
07 September 2009 Monsanto UK
In his article Mr Pearce made seriously inaccurate and misleading allegations about Monsanto’s crop research and production activity on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, including selectively quoting from a local news article from the island.

Soybean Makers Rush to Produce Low-Fat Oils
06 September 2009 Des Moines Register
Monsanto plans to introduce a soybean line within two years that will be low linolenic, mid-oleic and low-fat.

How to Breed Food Plants
05 September 2009 The Daily Star
Emphasizing introduction and diffusion of GM crops, the author has rightly defined their importance in the context of Bangladesh being an agro-based country where more than 70 per cent people depend on agriculture and agro-based industries for earning their livelihood.

Safe Seed: Researchers Yielding Good Results on Food Cotton in Field
04 September 2009 Texas A&M
As reported in his original paper, the cottonseed from these plants meet World Health Organization and U.S. Food and Drug Administration standards for food consumption, potentially making a new, high-protein food available to 500 million people a year.

Hunan Launched “Molecular Breeding for Super Hybrid Rice” Research
04 September 2009 RedNet
As a major project for Hunan's science and technology development, this research project endeavors to bring Hunan's technology of molecular breeding for super hybrid rice more in line with international standards and to firmly support the sustainable development of Hunan hybrid rice.

Overcoming the Toughest Stress in Rice: Drought
04 September 2009 International Rice Research Institute via Checkbiotech
Drought tolerant varieties are developed and enhanced by the integration of GM approaches into breeding programs, as well as the by the use of this new facility that enhances precision and effectiveness in delivering new and improved genetic lines.

Innovation and the Competitive Seed Market
03 September 2009 Monsanto
There is no question Monsanto is the recognized industry leader in biotech traits.

Fungus-free Chardonnay
03 September 2009 Business Spectator
The development of grapevines with the ability to adapt to adverse environmental conditions, including drought, salt and high light intensity stress is also receiving attention in Argentina and South Africa.

Monsanto Executives to Address Investor Conferences in September
03 September 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company's Hugh Grant, chairman, president and chief executive officer, and Carl Casale, chief financial officer and executive vice president, will address investors in separate investor conferences in September.

Herbicide-tolerant Soybean Seen to Boost Food Security
02 September 2009 Business Mirror
The Philippine Maize Federation Inc. (Philmaize) is asking Monsanto Philippines to introduce herbicide-tolerant soybean in the Philippines to further contribute to measures to attain food security in the country.

FSANZ Sees Reasons to Approve New GM Soy
02 September 2009 Food Navigator
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has published a second assessment report on the potential use of a herbicide-tolerant soybean line in food products, giving its preferred option of approval.

Where's the Super Food?
02 September 2009 The Scientist
The BioCassava Plus program has also recently seen significant progress in its goal to introduce biofortified foods into the developing world.

Food Talks Focus on Crop Genetics
02 September 2009 BBC News
Among the issues raised will be the use of genetic modification to guard against potato crop diseases.

Soybean Growers Count on Asgrow® with Genuity™ Roundup Ready 2 Yield® Technology for Higher Yield Potential
01 September 2009 Monsanto
Farmers planting Asgrow® brand Genuity™ Roundup Ready 2 Yield® soybeans in 2010 can choose from an expanded product lineup of this next-generation technology.

FFA, Monsanto Partner to Tell Story of Agriculture on YouTube
01 September 2009 Monsanto
FFA student-leaders filmed a variety of 3-minute videos to educate the public about agriculture in the hopes of winning Monsanto-sponsored Flip video cameras.

Big Stores Counting the Cost of Ban on GM Food
01 September 2009 The Independent
Asked whether GM was the answer to his call last month for a new green revolution, Hilary Benn, the Environment Secretary, whose new food security strategy this autumn is expected to move closer to backing GM, praised "science".

Monsanto Licenses Use of Cellectis' Innovative Genome Modification Technology
01 September 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company today announced a non-exclusive research and commercial license agreement with France-based Cellectis S.A., a biotechnology company specialized in genome engineering, for broad use of its meganuclease technology in plants.

Agribusiness: EPA Spells Out Final Bollgard Rules
01 September 2009 Southwest Farm Press
EPA has approved an amendment to the registration of Bollgard cotton that will allow producers in the eastern Cotton Belt to plant Deltapine 555 and other varieties containing the original Bollgard gene in 2010.

Bangladesh Finalizes GM Food Safety Guidelines
01 September 2009 Kansas State University
While chairing the inaugural session, Dr Wais Kabir, Executive Chairman of BARC expressed his optimism on the rapid progress and outcome of Bt Brinjal, late blight resistant potato and Golden Rice in Bangladesh for food and nutrition, that conform to the GM Food Safety Guidelines.

10 (More!) Eccentric Genetically Modified Fruits & Veggies
01 September 2009 WebEcoist
It’s estimated that widespread consumption of Golden Rice, which will become available to farmers in 2011, will prevent blindness in as many as 500,000 children.

GM: Food for Thought
31 August 2009 Food & Beverage News
GM foods have the potential to solve many of the world's hunger and malnutrition problems, and to help protect and preserve the environment by increasing yield and reducing reliance upon chemical pesticides.

Monsanto Company Completes Divestiture of Sunflower Assets
31 August 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company announced today that it has completed the divestiture of its global sunflower assets to Syngenta.

GM Crops to Play Key Role on Farms
29 August 2009 Viet Nam News
Coupled with that, using GMO in agricultural production is estimated to have helped decrease the usage of pesticides by more than 200,000 tonnes.

Agro-Biotechnology Can Fulfill Our Future Demands of Food
28 August 2009 Associated Press of Pakistan
The products of agriculture biotechnology, especially the disease resistance crops, high yielding varieties and new varieties with essential nutrients can fulfill our present and future needs.

Award-winning Research Unravels the Genetics of Fruit Colour
28 August 2009 The University of Auckland
Dr Espley deciphered the DNA code that controls production of red pigment in apple flesh – a scientific advance that is already being used to help breeders develop new apple varieties for New Zealand orchards and the export market.

GM Crop Nod For Uni
27 August 2009 ABC News
The Agriculture Minister, Paul Caica, has granted the University an exemption to study whether GM canola has a role in the control and eradication of the weed branched broomrape.

Scientists Identify Gene for Resistance to Parasitic 'Witchweed'
27 August 2009 University of Virginia
Now, scientists at the University of Virginia have identified a gene in cowpea that confers resistance to witchweed attack. This discovery will help researchers better understand how some plants can resist Striga, while others, such as corn and sorghum, are susceptible.

'GM' Rice May Join the Menu
25 August 2009 China Daily
GM rice is likely to be welcomed by farmers because of its potential to generate larger profits, in part because of its reduced need for pesticides.

Interview with Dr. Jürgen Hambrecht
24 August 2009 PR Domain
We are working with our partner Monsanto on plants that have a higher yield and that can survive in dry, salty soils.

Agricultural Biotechnology: Surely Farmers Deserve The Choice To Use All The Tools Available To Them?
24 August 2009 Future Countryside
As the key holders to our rural economy, why should British farmers be denied the choice of modern and efficient high-yielding farming methods based on tried and tested science in order both to produce the food that UK consumers want, whilst safeguarding the natural resources that we treasure?

OFAB Launch in Egypt
20 August 2009 Crop Biotech Net
In his address to OFAB, Prof. Mohamed El Garhy, vice president of Agricultural Research Center (ARC), said that "biotechnology offers a great help to the agricultural sector" and that "biotech applications can help face the agricultural challenges in Africa".

Scientists Develop High-Yield Deep Water Rice
20 August 2009 Associated Press
A team of Japanese scientists has discovered genes that enable rice to survive high water, providing hope for better rice production in lowland areas that are affected by flooding.

Research: ‘Fragrant’ GM Maize Against Pests
20 August 2009 GMO Compass
Researchers at the University of Neuenburg (Switzerland) have used genetic technology to restore to maize a scent that defends it from pests.

India Poised to Become World's Top Cotton Producer by 2015
20 August 2009 Biospectrum
In India, more than 5 million farmers have benefited from Bt cotton, with an additional Rs 12,800 crore ($3.2 billion) farm income generated from Bt cotton technology during the period 2002-07.

Time for TIME to Get Real
20 August 2009 Agweb Blogs
With Bt cotton, 4 million gallons of fuel and 93.7 million gallons of water are saved on the farm each year from fewer insecticide applications.In addition, Bt corn also has reduced levels of carcinogenic toxins produced by fumonisin.

'Cruise Ship Virus' Vaccine Stems From Tobacco
18 August 2009 Yahoo News
The new vaccine was "manufactured" in a tobacco plant using a bioengineered plant virus. This plant biotechnology opens the door to faster, more inexpensive ways to bring vaccines to the public quickly, especially in times when viruses mutate into unpredictable new strains, said Charles Arntzen, who reported on the vaccine at the American Chemical Society annual meeting, in Washington, D.C.

The Future of Wheat
18 August 2009 National Post
Genetically modified wheat would increase yields, cut pesticide use and give Canadian farmers a global edge

Monsanto’s Commitment to Sustainable Agriculture
17 August 2009 AgWired
The company is working on products that will produce more than double current yields while reducing the resources needed to grow the crops by nearly one-third.

Creating the Ultimate Drought-Resistant Lawn/Pasture Grass
17 August 2009 USDA
Bluegrass hybrids ideal for pasture and for lawns could be developed faster using genetic markers developed by an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist.

Monsanto Is on the Verge of a Technology Explosion, Executives Tell Investors at Annual Field Event
13 August 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company's (NYSE: MON) R&D pipeline is on the verge of a technology explosion that is expected to deliver value-added products with improved yield for growers and has the company poised to meet its goals for 2012 and beyond, Hugh Grant, Monsanto's chairman, chief executive officer and president, will tell investors today.

GM Canola Trial Crops Open to Public
13 August 2009 Farm Weekly
CBWA research director Wallace Cowling said the Cunderdin field day produced a positive result for the grains industry, and showed that GM canola was working better than most farmers expected.

Mexico Corn: Gene Therapy
13 August 2009 Latin Business Chronicle
GM corn represents an opportunity for Mexico to increase its domestic corn supply in the medium-to-long term.

Monsanto Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Terry Crews to Retire
12 August 2009 Monsanto

Biotechnology Touted As Key to Reduce Environmental Footprint
12 August 2009 AgriNews Online via Truth About Trade & Technology
During that timeframe, biotechnology traits have penetrated 80 percent of the market for corn and cotton and about 95 percent for soybeans. The initial index shows the soil loss efficiency trends have improved substantially by 30 percent to nearly 70 percent for the four crops evaluated.

Farmers Reporting Impressive Midseason Performance of Genuity™ Roundup Ready 2 Yield® Soybeans
11 August 2009 Monsanto
Farmers who planted Genuity™ Roundup Ready 2 Yield® soybeans this season say they are optimistic and impressed by the performance of this next-generation technology at this point in the season.

GM Crop Imports Should be Increased, Say Ministers and Farmers
11 August 2009 The Times
More genetically-modified crops used to feed pigs, poultry and dairy cattle could be imported into Britain to meet the demand for animal feed.

Int'l Meet Delegates Say GMO Must be Considered
10 August 2009 The Visayan Daily Star
Farmers, state regulators, academics, and journalists representing eight Asian countries at the culmination of an international exchange program here, agreed that there is a need for society stakeholders to consider biotechnology as an emerging tool for food security and economic development.

Federal Government Begins Distribution of Draft Environmental Impact Statement Regarding Monsanto's Proposal to Construct Environmentally Advanced Phosphate Mine
10 August 2009 Monsanto
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has begun distribution of a draft Environmental Impact Statement regarding a proposal by P4 Production LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON), to open one of North America's most environmentally advanced phosphate mines.

Corn, Genetically Modified Crops Better Than Traditional Varieties, Farm Experts Say
10 August 2009 Business Mirror
Scientists have confirmed the advantages of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn and genetically modified (GM) crops over traditional strains in a seminar held at the Linden Suites in Ortigas Center as part of the Pan-Asia Farmers Exchange 2009 from August 4 to 6.

NCGA: Our View - Pollan Drift
10 August 2009 Cattle Network
For, as Borlaug says, now is not the time to be limiting the tools available to our farmers and ranchers, as we need a second green revolution. As he says, “given the right tools, farmers have shown an uncanny ability to feed themselves and others, and to ignite the economic engine that will reverse the cycle of chronic poverty.”

Corn, Genetically Modified Crops Better Than Traditional Varieties, Farm Experts Say
10 August 2009 Business Mirror
Scientists have confirmed the advantages of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn and genetically modified (GM) crops over traditional strains in a seminar held at the Linden Suites in Ortigas Center as part of the Pan-Asia Farmers Exchange 2009 from August 4 to 6.

Genetically Modified Maize Raked in R3-billion Over the Past Ten Years
07 August 2009 Engineering News
Insect resistance has resulted in profits of some R3-billion for genetically modified (GM) maize over the past ten years.

Maize Findings Could Lead to Vigorous New Varieties and Insights into Human Genetics
06 August 2009 Cornell University
Two new large-scale studies by researchers at Cornell and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), published in this week's Science (Aug. 7) journal, report major discoveries in maize genetics that could revolutionize maize breeding and may help researchers better predict complex traits in humans.

Monsanto Company Declares Quarterly Dividend
05 August 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend on its common stock of 26.5 cents per share.

Monsanto and TwistDx Begin Field Trials of Rapid Diagnostic Tests for More Efficient Delivery of Biotech Crops
04 August 2009 TwistDx
Monsanto plans to use the tests to enhance the efficiency with which biotechnology crops are delivered across the globe.

GM Crops Could Cut Costs and Methane
03 August 2009 The New Zealand Herald
AgResearch has genetically modified forage crops which scientists say can reduce methane emissions from livestock.

GM Canola Pulls the Big Dollars in Canada
03 August 2009 The Sydney Morning Herald
Genetically modified canola has become Canada’s most valuable crop, is poised for more growth, and is testimony to the country’s innovation policy, according to a visiting Canadian grains executive.

GM Crop Lures Pest Killers
03 August 2009 Nature
Researchers have created transgenic maize plants that fight off pests by emitting a chemical to attract insect-killing nematode worms.

Restoring a Natural Root Signal Helps to Fight a Major Corn Pest
03 August 2009 Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
A longstanding and fruitful collaboration between researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland, together with contributions from colleagues in Munich and the US, has produced another first: the successful manipulation of a crop plant to emit a signal that attracts beneficial organisms.

Scientists Unveil Iron-Enriched Super-Rice
02 August 2009 Swiss Info
Zurich researchers have developed a variety of rice containing up to six times more iron than normal white rice grains by adding in two extra genes.

U.S. Farmers Prefer Biotech Varieties of Corn, Cotton, Soybeans
01 August 2009 High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal
American farmers have adopted genetically engineered crops widely since their introduction in 1996, especially corn, cotton and soybean varieties, according to a new U.S. Department of Agriculture report.

Uganda Explores Next Generation Cotton
31 July 2009 Crop Biotech Net
In July 2009, Uganda's National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO) began field testing insect-resistant Bollgard II and herbicide-resistant Roundup Ready Flex cotton.

SmartStax Corn Receives Japanese Import Approval
31 July 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company and Dow AgroSciences LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, announced today that they have received full Japanese regulatory approval for importation of grain produced from SmartStax™.

Research on Biotechnology to Ensure Food Security Urged
31 July 2009 The New Nation
On the project itself, Prof Sarker said they will develop the stress tolerant breeding lines of peanut that are particularly resistant to fungal diseases using genetic transformation techniques, and try to achieve optimization of genotypes independent in vitro plant regeneration systems in peanut varieties cultivated in Bangladesh.

Promote Agricultural Research, Fight Drought
31 July 2009 The New Vision via Checkbiotech
In addition, a sorghum variety relatively resistant to drought was released last year. NARO is also partnering with other research systems in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa to produce a genetically modified (GM) maize variety which is resistant to drought.

New Monsanto Corn Technology Helps Southern Farmers Combat High Corn Earworm Pressure in 2009
30 July 2009 Monsanto
Southern farmers are benefiting from new corn trait technology that provides a stronger defense against above-ground pests that feed on ears and can significantly reduce yield potential and damage grain quality.

Farmers Can Feed the World
30 July 2009 The Wall Street Journal
Investments like those announced by the G-8 leaders will most likely help to place current tools—like fertilizer and hybrid seeds that have been used for decades in the developed world—into the hands of small-holder farmers in remote places like Africa with the potential for noted and measured impact.

SemBioSys Awarded Key U.S. Patent for the Production of Insulin in Plants
30 July 2009 SemBioSys Genetics, Inc.
SemBioSys Genetics Inc. today announced that it has been granted U.S. patent US 7,547,821 entitled "Methods for the Production of Insulin in Plants". The granted claims of the patent are directed to a method for the commercial production of insulin in plant seeds.

Scientists Seek New Tools to Fight Malnutrition
29 July 2009 Associated Press
In addition, the alliance aims to help testing and distribution of crops genetically modified to boost nutritional content. They hope to provide the crops cheaply to farmers to produce more nutritious foods.

Australian Farm Exports May Increase 2%, ABARE Says
28 July 2009 Bloomberg
Earlier at the conference, Australian Agriculture Minister Tony Burke said the government could not close its eyes to increasing the use of genetically modified crops.

GM Potato Trial Back on Track
28 July 2009 Farmers Guardian
Scientists at Leeds University say the development of a nematode resistant potato could save the UK potato industry more than £50 million a year and benefit farmers worldwide.

Monsanto Breaks Ground on Plant-Breeding Centre
28 July 2009 Winnipeg Free Press
Monsanto Canada broke ground Monday on a new state-of-the art plant breeding centre that will get new types of genetically modified canola into farmers' hands sooner than otherwise would have been possible.

GMO Safe for Food Sufficiency: Agri Expert
28 July 2009 Sun Star Bacolod
Also a former executive director of the Philippine Rice Research Institute, Obien said the Philippine government looks at GMO (genetically modified organisms) as “another approach to increasing food sufficiency through increased yield, resistance to biotic and abiotic factors.”...

Researchers Team Up to Provide New Hope for Childhood Hunger
27 July 2009 Washington University
The intent is to enhance crops so that they can thrive where malnutrition is rampant and provide a complete package of nutrients needed for health.

Govt Urged to Raise Awareness of GMOs
27 July 2009 The Citizen
Tanzanian scientists and IITA are working on developing a GM cassava that is resistant to both cassava mosaic and brown streak diseases to improve food security

Agri-Biotech Body Claims Success in Research on Enhancing Crop Quality
26 July 2009 Indian Express
Prabhakar Ranjekar, Director, IRSHA, also enumerated various benefits of genetically modified (GM) crops like insect, pest and disease resistance; abiotic stress resistance (crops can withstand drought, salinity and high temperatures); improved nutritional quality achieved by bio-fortification and extended shelf life.

Event: Innovation in Crop Production for Productivity and Biodiversity
25 July 2009 Society of Chemical Industry
Progress in both chemical- and biotechnology-based technology is a credit to those in discovery companies whose R&D groups drive crop management forward, particularly at this time when increases in agricultural productivity are crucial to the global food supply. This meeting is a timely celebration of this innovation.

Biotech Crops Offer the Opportunity to Feed Millions While Making You Profits.
24 July 2009 The Motley Fool
Monsanto is probably the world's most famous agro-biotech company -- a true behemoth with a market cap of $43bn. It is the world leader in creating genetically modified seeds. In 2008, it made around $3bn in profits on sales of $11bn.

Silencing a Gene can Make Tomatoes Sweeter
24 July 2009 Crop Biotech Net
Researchers at the University of Newcastle in Australia and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made a major advance by identifying a gene in tomato that could increase crop seed yield, fruit quality, and lengthen shelf life.

Monsanto Organises ‘Aruvadai Thiruvizha’
24 July 2009 The Hindu
Monsanto India Limited organised Dekalb 900 M Gold ‘Aruvadai Thiruvizha’ in Udumalpet and Tirupur to celebrate higher productivity from the Dekalb 900 M Gold high-yielding corn hybrid seeds and also to educate farmers on best agronomic practices.

Global Team Develops Tools to Unravel Diversity of Rice
24 July 2009 IRRI
By looking at what different types of rice have in common, a team of international scientists is unlocking rice’s genetic diversity to help conserve it and find valuable rice genes to help improve rice production.

Enviro-Romanticism is Hurting Africa
23 July 2009 The Globe and Mail
Monsanto wants to develop seeds that would double the yields of corn, soybeans and cotton, and that would require less water, land and energy to grow.

Genetically Modified Rice 'Crucial in Drought Battle'
22 July 2009 AFP
Genetic modification may be the only viable way to produce sufficient quantities of rice in the future as drought, climate change and dwindling acreage impact yields, experts said in a new report.

Monsanto Predicts Big Market For New Seed
22 July 2009 Des Moines Register
Officials with Monsanto Co. say its newest biotech corn seed could eventually be planted to as many as 65 million acres, about 75 percent of the corn acreage planted this year.

Defra Calls on EU to Relax GM Soya Rules
22 July 2009 Farmers Guardian
In a letter to Ministers this week, the NFU in England, Scotland and Wales, the Ulster Farmers Union and the National Pig Association warned the UK could see feed costs rise by £30million a year if the EU does not relax the rules.

Britain Should Grow More Crops to Avoid Global Food Crisis, say MPs
21 July 2009 The Guardian
The report called for more research money, particularly into GM and other hi-tech food production.

Glimmer of Hope in Fight Against Iron Deficiency
21 July 2009 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Scientists at ETH Zurich have developed rice plants that contain six times more iron in polished rice kernels. To accomplish this, the researchers transferred two plant genes into an existing rice variety.

Monsanto, Dow AgroSciences Complete U.S. and Canadian Regulatory Authorizations for SmartStax Corn; Plans Set to Launch Seed Platform on 3 Million- to 4 Million-Plus Acres
20 July 2009 Monsanto

First GM Trial in Belgium since 2002
20 July 2009 European Biotechnology News
The Flanders Institute of Biotechnology (VIB) has started planting lignin-reduced trees on a field near Ghent. It is the first field trial in Belgium since 2002.

UK to Spend £100m on Supporting GM Crops for World's Poor
19 July 2009 The Guardian
A new white paper shows the government is committed to dramatically increasing spending on high-tech agriculture in the next five years, much of which will be on GM crop research.

DOE Earmarks $85M for 'Advanced' Biofuels
17 July 2009 The New York Times
The Energy Department will provide up to $85 million to accelerate commercial production of "advanced" biofuels that can be derived from algae and other feedstocks.

Africa Not Engaged in Biotechnology, Why?
16 July 2009 Islam Online
[Rosegrant] believes the developed world should help African nations train scientists and help them acquire the technologies needed for crop biotechnology to enhance improved agricultural production.

The Answer to Food Scarcity
15 July 2009 Business Spectator
But when it comes to new technology, particularly genetically modified crops, the environmental nay-sayers are struggling to find a coherent position.

GM Veggies in India Within 3 yrs: Govt
15 July 2009 The Times of India
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Department of Biotechnology have approved the three transgenic crops that are in various stages of tests and development in institutes across the country.

'Bt Cotton Cultivation Enhancing Soil Health'
15 July 2009 The Times of India
Tapan Chakrabarti, director Neeri, said that environmental friendly Bt cotton was a good substitute to conventional cotton.

Monsanto Company Invests in Developing New Technologies for Wheat With Acquisition of WestBred Business
14 July 2009 Monsanto
The investment will bolster the future growth of Monsanto's seeds and traits platform and allow farmers to benefit from the company's experience in drought-, disease- and pest-tolerance innovations.

Study says EU Policymakers can not Uphold Zero Tolerance Policy Towards non EU-Approved GM-Crops
14 July 2009 European Biotechnology News
Results of a brand-new study suggest that the EU will soon have to accept food and feed imports that carry tiny amounts of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) not yet approved by the EU authorities

Exxon to Invest Millions to Make Fuel From Algae
13 July 2009 The New York Times
On Tuesday, Exxon plans to announce an investment of $600 million in producing liquid transportation fuels from algae — organisms in water that range from pond scum to seaweed.

Exciting Deltapine Class of '10 Cotton Varieties Being Evaluated by Farmers in 2009 NPE Program
13 July 2009 Monsanto
Nearly 150 farmers across the Cotton Belt are evaluating the performance of 13 new Deltapine(®) Class of '10 cotton variety candidates this season as part of the 2009 New Product Exposure (NPE) program.

WA in the Spotlight for Global Plant Geneticists
13 July 2009 Farm Weekly
The major focus of the conference is on applying the incredible advances in human and animal genome mapping technology to grain crops.

UGA Researchers Could Help Restore Devastated American Chestnut
11 July 2009 University of Georgia
But researchers in the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, with support from ArborGen LLC, a leader in tree improvement and commercial production of trees, have developed a method for inserting anti-fungal genes into the tree's DNA.

Biotechnology Communication Course in Kenya
10 July 2009 Crop Biotech Net
[Dr. Wilson Songa, the Agriculture Secretary] emphasized the importance of communicating to stakeholders the benefits of using biotechnology products, and also the impressive progress of GM crops research in the country.

China Discusses Benefits of GM Crops with Media
10 July 2009 Crop Biotech Net
Resource persons were unanimous in saying that the first generation GM crops directly benefits farmers while consumers will also gain from the next generation of GM crops.

Behind the G8 Food Security Initiative: Gates Foundation Role
10 July 2009 The Seattle Times
The recommendations include increasing support for agricultural education, research, including genetic engineering, and infrastructure.

Spain Among World's Biggest GMO Producers
10 July 2009 Green Planet
With some 79,262 hectares devoted to biotech crops, the country is now the 14th GMO producer, in the special ranking presented in Madrid by ASEBIO (Asociación Española de Bioempresas).

British Study Claims GM Worth $40 Billion to World Farm Income
09 July 2009 ABC News
A British study says genetically modified crops have added over US$40 billion to global farm income over the past decade.

Increase in Nutritionally Important Sweet Corn Kernel Carotenoids Following Mesotrione and Atrazine Applications
09 July 2009 Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
Scientists are reporting for the first time that the use of weed killers in farmers' fields boosts the nutritional value of an important food a crop.

UAS Works on Transgenic Variant of Pigeon-Pea
09 July 2009 The Economic Times
Transgenic or genetically-modified crops have caught the fancy of Indian farmers in many crops like cotton. As of date close to 80% of the country's cotton production of over 280 lakh bales is under the popular Bt cotton variety.

Scientists Closer to Developing Salt-Tolerant Crops
08 July 2009 University of Adelaide
An international team of scientists has developed salt-tolerant plants using a new type of genetic modification (GM), bringing salt-tolerant cereal crops a step closer to reality.

U.S. Farmers Prefer Biotech Varieties Of Corn, Cotton, Soybeans
08 July 2009 Bioresearch Online
Sharon Bomer Lauritsen, Executive Vice President, Food and Agriculture for the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), issued the following statement in response to the report's findings: "Because of the compelling benefits that biotech crops provide, herbicide-tolerant and insect-resistant varieties of corn, cotton and soybeans continue to be the choice of American farmers..."

Genetically Engineering Experiments on Crops
08 July 2009 Press Information Bureau
The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee(GEAC)has accorded approval for conducting field trials with GM crops namely; cotton, rice, okra, brinjal, potato, groundnut, tomato, corn, cabbage, cauliflower, mustard and sorghum for generation of biosafety data.

BASF Halts GM potato Research in UK
08 July 2009 Farmers Weekly
Prospects for growing blight-resistant potatoes created by genetic modification have received a setback in the UK after BASF's decision to suspend research into such varieties. The firm is blaming continuing delays in getting EU approval for GM potatoes, saying approval of its GM starch variety remains "lost in the politics" of the EU.

Role of Genetically Modified Crops in Africa - Dr. Daniel Mataruka
08 July 2009 Council for Biotechnology Information
From the foregoing, the important role of GM technology on modern medicines, attainment of food security and improvement of farm profitability cannot be overstated.

GM Crops are Another Tool in the Struggle Against Poverty
08 July 2009 The Guardian
We have used genetic modification (GM) to amplify the process, helping plants to do what they already do – but to do it much better!

USDA/FAS GAIN Report: Czech Scientists Recommend Better EU Biotech Policy
07 July 2009 USDA via Checkbiotech
Czech scientists are urging policy makers to take rational approach towards genetically modified crops, especially in case of creating legislative acts and deciding on GM crop approvals.

IGFA urge GM Maize Approval
07 July 2009 Irish Independent
The Irish Grain and Feed Association (IGFA) has called on Minister Smith to support the clearance of two GM maize varieties that will be presented for approval in Brussels next week.

IGFA Urge GM Maize Approval
07 July 2009 Irish Independent
The Irish Grain and Feed Association (IGFA) has called on Minister Smith to support the clearance of two GM maize varieties that will be presented for approval in Brussels next week.

Genetically Altered Trees Grow Twice as Fast
06 July 2009 Axcess News
Russian scientists claim that genetically altered birch and aspen trees have successfully grown in half the time within greenhouse environments. Now, the scientists are moving outdoors in an attempt to curb deforestation in eastern Europe.

Mashed-up Genomes Could Produce Biofuels
06 July 2009 MSNBC
The genomes of 17 different ants, fungi and bacteria that eat through hundreds of pounds of leaf matter a year could ultimately lead to new techniques for making biofuels.

OECD: Biotechnology Assuming Major Role
05 July 2009 University World News
It predicts that by 2015 around half of major food and feed crops across the globe will probably come from plant varieties developed with the help of biotechnology.

Pakistan Allots Budget for Biotech R & D
03 July 2009 Crop Biotech Net
The government has also signed an agreement with Monsanto to formally introduce genetically modified cotton on fast track basis. Farmers will be offered Bt cotton hybrid varieties during Fiscal Year 2009- 10.

Philippine National Scientist Expresses Support to Biotech
03 July 2009 Crop Biotech Net
She also cited the widely adopted Bt corn in the country which has transformed lives of many Filipinos and called for support to local biotech products such as golden rice, bacterial blight resistant rice, abaca resistant to bunchy top virus and papaya with delayed ripening and resistance to papaya ringspot virus.

Biotechnology: Africa Must Not Be Left Behind
03 July 2009 IPS
The ABSF is a platform set up to promote the use of GM crops in Africa by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications. ISAAA, in its turn, is sponsored by - among others - GM multinationals Bayer Crop Sciences and Monsanto to match biotechnological solutions with agricultural problems in developing countries.

Specialization, Biotech are the Future of Ag
02 July 2009 The Sauk Prairie Eagle
Biotechnology, genetically modified organisms, and conservation tillage methods will allow us to meet these demands, while still conserving our natural resources.

EU Paves Way to Prolong Biotech Maize Cultivation
30 June 2009 Reuters
The European Union took a step closer on Tuesday towards 10 more years of biotech cultivation after leading scientists reconfirmed the safety of the only genetically modified crop as yet commercially grown in Europe.

Benefits of Biotechnology Stressed
29 June 2009 The International News
[Prof Dr Nuzhat Ahmed] said that there was crying need to benefit from biotechnology, which helps produce generically modified (GM) crops. “The proper use of biotechnology can increase food production, lower food prices, and improve food quality. The technology has great potential to enhance food production in the country.

Monsanto and Bayer CropScience Sign Cross-Licensing Agreement on Herbicide Tolerance Traits in Canola
29 June 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company and Bayer CropScience have agreed to cross license their respective herbicide tolerance traits in canola on a non-exclusive basis for commercialization within their respective branded canola seed businesses.

Combination of New Biotechnology Trait and Seed Treatment System in Soybeans Demonstrating Strong Early Season Performance
29 June 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company announced today that soybean varieties with the Genuity™ Roundup Ready 2 Yield® trait and Acceleron™ seed treatment system are showing an early season performance advantage over competitive soybean products and first-generation traits in many areas of the United States.

Monsanto Products Reach Regulatory Milestones in the European Union
29 June 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company announced today that experts at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) issued a favorable scientific opinion on Monsanto's Roundup Ready 2 corn product for cultivation and reconfirmed the safety of its YieldGard insect-protected corn trait.

Melon Research Sweetened with DNA Sequence
29 June 2009 Texas A&M
Plant breeders now have a better chance to pinpoint such traits for new varieties, because the melon genome with hundreds of DNA markers has been mapped by scientists with Texas AgriLife Research.

Drought-Tolerant Seed Could Boost Corn Crop
27 June 2009 EDP 24
A new approach to plant breeding to boost crop yields will require adoption of the latest GM technology, Norfolk farmers have been told.

Anti-Allergy GM Rice Appears Safe in Animal Studies
26 June 2009 Crop Biotech Net
A team of researchers from Japan's National Institute for Agrobiological Sciences has successfully developed a genetically modified rice variety that fights Japanese cedar pollen allergy.

The University of Almeria Genetically Improves Castor-Oil Plants to Produce New Bio-Lubricants
25 June 2009 Andalucia Investiga
Almeria-based researchers, led by Federico García Maroto, have genetically improved castor-oil plant so as to use it as a factory to produce bio lubricants.

Feeding the Hungry
25 June 2009 Agweb Blogs
It has certainly made it easier for me to earn a living, because GM seeds reduce the amount of time and resources I devote to each acre of crops.

Seeds and Traits Business Provides Strong Profit Contribution In Third-Quarter and Year-To-Date Results; New Competitive Dynamics Change Outlook for Roundup Franchise
24 June 2009 Monsanto
Our 2009 fiscal year represents a milestone for our business as our seeds and traits business alone will deliver more gross profit than all of Monsanto did in 2007, a remarkable achievement in just two short years.

Monsanto and Dole Combine Strengths in New Collaboration to Bring Innovations to Vegetables
23 June 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) announced today it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Dole Fresh Vegetables, Inc., to develop new products that will enhance consumer vegetable choices.

Monsanto Completes Regulatory Submissions in Brazil for First Biotech Insect-Protected Soybean Technology
22 June 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) announced today that it has completed regulatory submission in Brazil for its insect-protected Roundup Ready 2 Yield™ soybeans.

Centre Rolls Out New Gene Method for Designer Crops
22 June 2009 Live Mint
The government, concerned at falling agricultural growth, launched a project in May to develop naturally improved crop varieties mainly to boost yields, said R.R. Sinha, an adviser at the department of biotechnology.

Scientists Hope to Bring Omega 3 Back into Food Chain
20 June 2009 The Hindu Business Line
If the project is successful, the genetically modified veggies can potentially be an important source of the essential fatty acid, which is necessary for good health but cannot be manufactured in the human body.

INRA Researchers Identify New Aphid Resistance Gene
18 June 2009 Crop Biotech Net
Scientists at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) have identified a novel gene that confers resistance against the dreaded melon or cotton aphid Aphis gossypii.

Nigeria Approves Confined Field Trial of Cowpea
18 June 2009 Crop Biotech Net
The Federal Government of Nigeria approved the request of the Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria to conduct confined field trial (CFT) of insect resistant transgenic cowpea.

Monsanto Opens Agriculture's First Water Utilization Learning Center
16 June 2009 Monsanto
Water is a vital element in the production of food. Helping farmers better manage water utilization for crops is the focus of Monsanto Company's (NYSE: MON) Water Utilization Learning Center, which opens today at Gothenburg, Neb.

Reengineering A Food Poisoning Microbe To Carry Medicines And Vaccines
16 June 2009 Science Daily
Scientists have used genetic engineering to tame one of the most deadly food poisoning microbes and turn it into a potential new way of giving patients medicine and vaccines in pills rather than injections.

Biotechnology's Potential to Improve Seed Composition Outlined
16 June 2009 USDA
Biotechnology offers a realistic means to not only improve important seed components, but also to boost the overall nutritional quality of seeds, according to a recently published book edited and partly written by Hari B. Krishnan, an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist.

GM Canola Keeps on Growing
15 June 2009 ABC News
There's been a fourfold jump in the amount of genetically modified canola sown in Victoria and NSW this year.

Mechanisms of Aluminum Tolerance in Wheat
11 June 2009 Crop Biotech Net
Researchers at the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization (CSIRO) have identified two mechanisms for aluminum tolerance in wheat.

Monsanto Teams up With Industry Leaders in Protein Design Software Development
11 June 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) and Pasadena-based Protabit LLC, today announced a two-year collaboration to develop new tools for protein design and optimization.

Are GMOs Harmful or Helpful?
11 June 2009 The Financial Gazette
GMO allows for enhanced disease and pest resistance. they also prevent heavy usage of herbicides as the crop will be able to outgrow and fight weeds just on application of single and moderate herbicide, thereby saving the environment.

Biotechnology to Increase Agriculture Output in Azerbaijan: American University Professor
10 June 2009 Trend Capital
The introduction of biotechnology in agriculture in Azerbaijan will help local farmers to significantly increase their incomes, professor at the American Tuskegee University Channapatna Prakash said.

Monsanto Company Declares Quarterly Dividend
09 June 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend on its common stock of 26.5 cents per share. The dividend is payable on July 24, 2009 to shareowners of record on July 2, 2009.

Monsanto, BASF Scientists Disclose Discovery of Gene Conferring Drought Tolerance in Corn Plants
09 June 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) and BASF scientists unveiled the discovery that a naturally-occurring gene can help corn plants combat drought conditions and confer yield stability during periods of inadequate water supplies.

EU Losing Out on Contributions to Sustainable Farming from Biotech Traits
08 June 2009 PG Economics
New study shows GM insect resistant (GM IR) maize has delivered important economic and environmental benefits but only a small part of the potential benefit is currently being realised.

Rabies Vaccine from GM Carrots
05 June 2009 Crop Biotech Net
Researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico have developed transgenic carrot plants accumulating significant levels of the rabies virus glycoprotein.

Genetically Modified Crops Get the Vatican's Blessing
04 June 2009 New Scientist
GM crops were heartily endorsed at a week-long seminar held by the academy in mid-May.

Food Safety 101
04 June 2009 Agweb Blogs
GM crops are better able to fend off pests that introduce disease. In the near future, we’ll hear more about biofortification--the genetic enhancement of staple crops to improve their nutritional content.

Icons are Next Step in Biotechnology Communication
04 June 2009 Farm & Ranch Guide
By the middle of the next decade, Monsanto's visionaries hope to offer soybean and corn seed with multiple traits stacked to deliver innovative solutions to help meet the world's demands for food, fuel and fiber.

"Junk" DNA Proves to be Highly Valuable
02 June 2009 USDA
What was once thought of as DNA with zero value in plants--dubbed "junk" DNA--may turn out to be key in helping scientists improve the control of gene expression in transgenic crops.

IEC Conference – EU to Adopt GM crops
01 June 2009 World Poultry
Van Horne’s study concludes that one solution to this ongoing problem is that the EU needs to adopt an acceptable tolerance to allow non-improved varieties to be in shipments.

Filipino Scientists Developing Virus-Resistant ‘Kamote’
31 May 2009 Business Mirror
The Philippines hopes to have a genetically modified (GM) kamote (sweet potato) in the next five years.

GERMANY: Green Genetic Engineering Essential
31 May 2009 University World News
Speaking at the presentation of the memorandum in Berlin, DFG President Matthias Kleiner stressed the need for basic research in green genetic engineering and the importance of field trials, but also pointed to the special responsibility of science in assessing the opportunities and risks of green genetic engineering.

Monsanto's CEO on Growing in a Recession
29 May 2009 Smart Money
By 2012 we think we can expand profits 2.25 times our 2007 base by doubling crop yields and the continued increase in demand.

Philippine Agric Undersecretary Counts on Biotech in Mitigating Water and Energy Crises
29 May 2009 Crop Biotech Net
In a keynote speech at the recently concluded conference of the Federation of Crop Science Societies of the Philippines, the Philippine Department of Agriculture Undersecretary for Policy and Planning Segfredo R. Serrano expressed his support to the use of biotechnology to nearly 300 crop scientists and members of the academe.

Mahyco Foresees a Bounty in Bt Brinjal
28 May 2009 The Economic Times
Pioneering seeds development company, Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company (Mahyco) foresees a bounty for brinjal cultivators in India, with the latest product to emerge from its laboratories, namely the Bt brinjal.

Biotechnology: Africa’s Hope for Food Security and Improved Health
27 May 2009 The African Executive
GM crops could boost food production and reduce hunger crisis in Africa.

GM Policy is ‘Crippling’ Livestock Sector
26 May 2009 Farmers Guardian
Europe's policy to prohibit feed imports that show any trace of non-authorised GM is crippling the livestock industry and should be softened, the Commission has been told.

Genuity™ Roundup Ready 2 Yield™ Soybeans Planted on 1.5 Million Acres This Season
26 May 2009 Seed Today
More than 16,000 farmers are planting Genuity™ Roundup Ready 2 Yield™ soybeans this season, many saying they are excited about the higher yield and profit potential this second-generation technology demonstrated last year in test plots and production fields.

Why Take A Worldview?
25 May 2009 Scientific American
And, of course, biotechnology can reduce the financial cost and environmental impact of industrial processes, helping corporations profit and governments attain their “green” goals of the future.

Are GM Crops the Answer to Africa's Food Crisis?
25 May 2009 The Hindu
According to an IFPRI analysis, expansion in the adoption of GM crops could also significantly lower the price of food in developing countries by 2050.

Warming Will Make Scotland the Bread Basket of Europe
24 May 2009 The Sunday Times
A spokesman for the National Farmers’ Union Scotland said: “...We think GM crop varieties may have a role to play and we agree with the study that there needs to be more research.”

Biotech Crops the Way to Go
24 May 2009 Uganda Business News
Dr. Andrew Kiggundu, the Head of Biotechnology Department at the National Agricultural Research Organisation says bimolecular research they have been undertaking has been able to produce new crop varieties that are more effective.

Brazil Regulator OKs Monsanto GMO Cotton Seed
21 May 2009 Reuters
Brazil's biosafety regulator CTNBio has approved the use of Monsanto's Bollgard 2 genetically modified cotton seed, the company said on Thursday.

Taking Genetic Engineering From Labs to African Farms as Millions Starve
20 May 2009 Africa Science News Service
According to IFPRI analysis, expansion in the adoption of GM crops could also significantly lower the price of food in developing countries by 2050.

Biotech Crops Making Important Contributions to Sustainable Farming
20 May 2009 PG Economics
New (annual) study shows biotech crops have delivered significant global economic and environmental benefits and are making important contributions to global food production & security.

A Solution for Global Hunger?
20 May 2009 Farm Futures
Lower U.S. biofuel subsidies, acceptance of GM food in Europe and the adoption of large-scale, commercial agricultural practices in developing countries would go a long way to reduce the number of hungry in the world, which has grown to an alarming 1 billion people.

Biotechnology is Becoming a More Valuable Ingredient in Food Production
20 May 2009 ICIS
More recently, GM seed crops are being designed to improve their nutritional value - for example, reducing trans fats or, conversely, adding omega-3 fatty acids to soybeans, as US-based agricultural technology company Monsanto has done.

Biotech Holds Seeds of Hope for Africa
19 May 2009 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Through biotechnology, researchers at Monsanto are developing a drought-tolerant corn to reduce lost yields caused by drought.

Canada Risks Missing out on Bioeconomy Opportunity
19 May 2009 The Chronicle Herald
It estimates that by 2015 — just six years from now — roughly half of major food, feed and industrial feedstock crops will come from plant varieties developed though biotechnology.

HIV Vaccine From Engineered Plants: Mice Form Antibodies Against HIV Protein
18 May 2009 Science Daily
Through gene modification the plants have acquired the capacity to produce a protein that is part of the virus, and the project has taken a giant step forward in that mice that have been fed the plants have reacted and formed antibodies against the protein.

Vietnam Party Chief Urges Use of Biotechnology
15 May 2009 Crop Biotech Net
At the Mekong Delta Rice Institute, Manh praised scientists for enhancing productivity and quality of rice. He added that the institute needs to continue research and release findings to help farmers enhance productivity.

Filipino Scientists Hope to Develop Virus Resistant Sweet Potato
15 May 2009 Crop Biotech Net
Scientists from the Visayas State University (VSU) and the University of the Philippines Los Baños Institute of Plant Breeding (UPLB-IPB) are now working on the development of virus resistant sweet potato (VRSP) through Agrobacterium-mediated transformation.

World Wheat Groups Say Biotech in Sync Is the Goal
15 May 2009 National Association of Wheat Growers
Organizations representing the wheat industry in the United States, Canada and Australia announced Thursday they will work toward the goal of synchronized commercialization of biotech traits in the wheat crop.

Growers in U.S., Canada, Australia Back GMO Wheat
14 May 2009 Reuters UK
Farm groups from the world's top wheat-exporting nations on Thursday said they had reached an agreement to support a "synchronized" commercialization of biotech traits in wheat.

Monsanto Announces Next Wave of High Impact Technology Products; Successful Innovation Continues to Fuel Monsanto's Gross Profit Outlook for Seeds and Traits
13 May 2009 Monsanto
With global demand for grain expected to continue to rise, Monsanto Company announced today which of its current pipeline products will be the next wave of high impact technology products focused on contributing to improving farmers' yields and driving the long-term growth in the company's seeds and traits platform.

Monsanto Sees U.S. Seeds Business Doubling
13 May 2009 Reuters UK
Monsanto Co said on Wednesday that it expects its U.S. gross profit from sales of seeds and traits to double by 2012 from the 2008 level, while its international businesses should grow by 85 percent.

Genetic Foods Fears Overblown, say Scientists
12 May 2009 Daily Nation
Dr Sarah Olembo, a senior policy officer (food security division) of the African Union Commission, says technologies for genetic modification offer promises for Africa’s challenges on food security.

Scientists Developing Biotech Crops to Feed World's Malnourished
12 May 2009 Tucson Citizen
Scientists in Spain have engineered African lines of white corn to provide high levels of beta carotene, a key source of vitamin A, a nutrient critical to protecting eyesight.

Monsanto Executives to Address Investor Conferences in May
11 May 2009 Monsanto
The Monsanto executives will provide an update on the company's business performance and expectations, strategic initiatives, product performance, research-and-development pipeline, and other business matters at these conferences.

Biotechnology and the Challenge of Food Security in Nigeria
10 May 2009 The Punch
[Director, Plant Resources Department, Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria, Prof. M. D. Magaji] listed merits of biotech crops to include pest resistance, herbicide tolerance, disease resistance and drought tolerance.

Science Innovations Helps Dryland Farmers Deal With Food, Financial Crisis
09 May 2009 Xinhua
Using the same technology, ICRISAT scientists in Nairobi identified and transferred genes that confer Striga resistance to sorghum. Striga is among the deadliest weeds in Africa.

Tomato Project Offers Potential for Crop Drought, Disease Resistance
06 May 2009 University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Her transgenic tomato plants show dramatic increases in drought tolerance, vegetative biomass and fruit lycopene concentration.

Monsanto Challenges Unauthorized Use of Roundup Ready® Technology by DuPont
05 May 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company announced that it filed suit yesterday in federal court in St. Louis against E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., to prevent unlawful use of Monsanto's proprietary Roundup Ready® herbicide tolerant technologies in soybeans and corn.

White House to Step Up Ethanol Efforts
05 May 2009 The Wall Street Journal
The Obama administration on Tuesday will step up efforts to increase the availability of ethanol at filling stations and to speed up subsidies to struggling biofuel producers.

Scientists Make Herbicide-Resistant Plants
05 May 2009 United Press International
U.S. scientists say they've developed a technique for modifying plant genes that could help provide sustainable food, fuel and fiber supplies.

More GM Maize Planted in SA
05 May 2009 Independent News
Plantings of genetically modified (GM) maize in South Africa have increased dramatically, agriculture company Monsanto said on Tuesday.

Investors Bullish on Agricultural Commodities
04 May 2009 Commodity Online
Haracio Marquez for Money Morning says that one of his preferred plays is Monsanto (MON).

Brazilian Researchers Develop Vitamin A Enriched Maize
04 May 2009 EMBRAPA
Maize varieties with increased pro-vitamin A content could be growing in Brazil by next year

KARI Adopts BT Maize
01 May 2009 Biotech Kenya
Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) has adopted Bt maize which is more resistant to crop pest e.g. stem borer.

Plant Genetics Could Yield Crops that Need Less Water
01 May 2009 San Diego Union-Tribune
Also, the research has the potential of providing companies the option of using genetics to create a new generation of drought-tolerant, cultivated plants.

Roundup Approvals for Post-Planting Potato Weed Control
30 April 2009 Farmers Weekly
Three Roundup glyphosate formulations have been granted approval for use in potatoes post-planting, pre-crop emergence to tackle transplanted weeds or early emerging annual weeds.

'Designer Crops are Safe'
30 April 2009 Sify
Designer crops can be safe and will dominate agriculture in the days to come, according to Dr Swapan Dutta, a plant biotechnologist from the University of Calcutta.

Uganda: Scientific Intervention is the Future of Agriculture
29 April 2009 The New Vision via AllAfrica
Biotechnology is a system where bioscience is used on research to identify better yielding crops that resist certain diseases and separate other diseases that attack crops.

U of M Researcher Helps Develop New Technique for Modifying Plant Genes
29 April 2009 University of Minnesota
Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Massachusetts General Hospital have used a genome engineering tool they developed to make a model crop plant herbicide-resistant without significant changes to its DNA.

Plants Genes get Fine Tailoring
29 April 2009 Nature Magazine
After decades of searching, plant biologists have found a way to selectively snip out one gene and replace it with another.

Kawanda Searches for Resistant Matooke Variety
29 April 2009 The New Vision via AllAfrica
The National Agricultural Research Organisation has developed a system of improving banana varieties using genetic engineering.

Corn Fortified with Vitamins Devised by Scientists
28 April 2009 Los Angeles Times
Though genetic engineering has been used to enhance vitamin content in a variety of crops -- including rice, potatoes, lettuce and tomatoes -- this is the first time scientists have been able to amplify multiple vitamins in a single plant.

Designing Drought-Resistant Crops
28 April 2009 Eco World
Researchers claim that within the next few years plants could be genetically modified to hold on to the precious water that is so hard to come by during a drought, while still being able to absorb the CO2 they need for photosynthesis.

Virus-Resistant GM Potato, Groundnut Under Trial Stage
27 April 2009 The Financial Express
Genetically modified virus-resistant potato and groundnut, and drought and salinity-tolerant rice are under various stages of trials in the green houses and confined fields of select universities and research institutions in the country.

Innovation in Plant Science Enables Sustainable Agriculture
27 April 2009 Business Intelligence Middle East
Scientists are developing plant varieties to assist farmers growing crops in difficult environmental stress conditions, such as water scarcity, salinity, and heat.

Biotech Advances Could Help Achieve Sustainability Goals
27 April 2009 Wisconsin Technology Network
Science acting in concert with ethics could help generate a better crop of second generation of genetically modified crops, according to Paul B. Thompson, who argues that biotechnology has made some considerable contributions to the growing discussion about sustainability.

Pakistan to Focus on Genetic Crops to Increase Output
26 April 2009 Daily Times
The Minister said that GM crops have contributed to sustainable development in several significant ways including: Contributing to food security and more affordable food, conserving biodiversity, alleviation of poverty and hunger, mitigating climate change and reducing greenhouses gases, contributing to the cost-effective production of biofuels and above all by contributing to sustainable economic benefits.

Monsanto Offers Fellowship for Research on Rice, Wheat Breeding
25 April 2009 The Hindu
Under the programme, the company will allocate $10 million to encourage young Phd scholars to pursue their research in rice and wheat breeding, Edward Runge, director of Monsanto's Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Programme, told reporters here.

Monsanto to Introduce Nextgen Cotton Tech
24 April 2009 Business Standard
Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech, the 50:50 joint venture of US biotech major Monsanto and Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Co (Mahyco), is looking at introducing roundup ready flex (RRF) technology for its Bollgard II cotton variety in the Indian market soon.

We Must Keep an Open Mind on GM, says Government Adviser
24 April 2009 Western Mail
Various technologies that can influence sustainable food production will be explored at the conference, such as genetic engineering, the industrial uses of renewable materials and poly-generation systems using food waste.

GM Bananas 'Flourishing' in North Qld
23 April 2009 ABC News
Scientists say the country's first crop of genetically-modified (GM) banana plants is flourishing in far north Queensland.

Better Living Through GM Oilseeds is Practically in our Grasp
23 April 2009 ICIS
Monsanto has been working with Germany's BASF Plant Science on the production of healthy fatty acids in canola oil, including omega-3 fatty acid eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) as well as a mixture of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) for food, feed and dietary supplement applications.

GM Wheat Will Improve Productivity Growth: Scientist
23 April 2009 The Hindu
India needs to consider all options, including genetically modified (GM) technology, to increase wheat productivity which has been stagnant at an average 2.7 tonnes per hectare for the past six years, renowned agriculture scientist Thomas A Lumpkin has said.

Monsanto Statement Regarding Mon810 Maize in Germany
22 April 2009 Monsanto
Millions of farmers across the globe have been cultivating MON810 for over a decade, and its safety and benefits have been proven time and again.

Sustainability Prominent Focus for Canada's Plant Science Industry
21 April 2009 Croplife Canada
Biotechnology also helps increase yields by increasing pest resistance and drought tolerance, but research into increasing yields in other ways is also underway.

Vilsack Pledges Better Push on Biotech Crops
21 April 2009 Des Moines Register
Just back from the G8 summit in Italy, Vilsack pledged today to bring a “more comprehensive and integrated” approach to promoting ag biotech overseas.

Yielding to Ideology Over Science
21 April 2009 Reason Magazine
Increasing crop yields to meet humanity's growing demand for healthful food while protecting the natural world will require deploying the full scientific armamentarium.

Farmers Get Ready to Plant First Big WA Trials of GM Canola
21 April 2009 The West Australian
The canola has a modified gene that makes it resistant to the herbicide Roundup, with the technology developed by multi-national company Monsanto.

Purdue Startup Marketing New Ethanol Yeast
21 April 2009 The Chicago Tribune
An Indiana biotechnology company announced Tuesday that it has begun producing a genetically modified yeast that promises to make it easier and faster to turn corn cobs, wood chips and a host of agricultural wastes into ethanol.

Clean Air and Water, Green Products: Brought to You by Biotechnology
20 April 2009 Biotechnology Industry Organization
In fact, growing biotech crops can actually help enhance air, water and soil quality and overall sustainability. Agricultural biotechnology allows farmers to use less pesticide on their crops and helps reduce soil tillage, fossil fuel use, and runoff from farmers’ fields.

BASF and Monsanto to Develop Dicamba-Based Technologies
20 April 2009 Delta Farm Press
BASF and Monsanto Company have announced a new joint-licensing agreement to accelerate the development of the next-generation of dicamba-based weed control chemistry products.

Protein Engineering Seen to up Mungbean’s Nutritional Quality
20 April 2009 Manila Bulletin
The “poor man’s” food will soon exhibit one of the best functional and nutritional qualities after a research conducted by a young Filipino scientist has increased protein content in mungbean using protein engineering.

Strange Fruit: Could Genetically Modified Foods Offer a Solution to the World's Food Crisis?
18 April 2009 The Independent on Sunday
GM products for public good rather than private profit are on the brink of becoming a reality.

Compost Enzymes and New Plant Varieties
18 April 2009 VietNamNet
Under the program, five research projects to genetically modify crops (maize, soy beans, pine trees, bead trees, and duckweed) are underway and new generations (T2) of corn and soy bean varieties have been created.

Supporting a Sustainable Earth
17 April 2009 Truth About Trade & Technology
The genetic enhancement of crops already has brought us large increases in yield. More is on the way, especially if we allow biotechnology to take advantage of all it can offer, from drought tolerance in wheat and maize to biofortification in rice.

Vietnam Plans Cultivation of Genetically Modified Crops
17 April 2009 Fresh Plaza
Vietnamese farmers will produce genetically modified plants commercially under the government's instructions later this year, experts told a Ho Chi Minh City conference Wednesday.

The World Must Feed its Hungry
16 April 2009 Financial Times
Research is needed to boost productivity, especially for African crops, and must not be hampered by opposition to genetically modified food.

Opposition Decreasing or Acceptance Increasing?
16 April 2009 GMO Compass
Many consumers seem unafraid of health risks from GMO products: according to polls, most European consumers do not actively avoid GMO products while shopping.

Singapore Scientists Say can Turn CO2 into Biofuel
16 April 2009 Reuters
Scientists in Singapore say they have found a way to turn planet-warming carbon dioxide into clean-burning methanol using a process that uses less energy than previous attempts.

'Our Products have Proven Reliability'
16 April 2009 Economic Times
Better seeds mean higher yields and higher income. Once systems are operated over time, people get more comfortable with the use of technology and there is eventually greater consistency in the way the process works.

Monsanto Adds David L. Chicoine to Board of Directors
15 April 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company announced today the appointment of David L. Chicoine, Ph.D., to the company's Board of Directors.

Plant Gene Mapping May Lead to Better Biofuel Production
14 April 2009 DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
By creating a "family tree" of genes expressed in one form of woody plant and a less woody, herbaceous species, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered clues that may help them engineer plants more amenable to biofuel production.

Bio-technology to Stimulate Food Production
14 April 2009 The Government of Botswana
It is high time Batswana adopted the use of biotechnology in production due to both political and economic changes, says the Director of Agricultural Research, Dr Pharoah Mosupi.

BIO Debunks Myths in Anti-Industry Report
14 April 2009 Biotechnology Industry Organization
Biotech traits, such as insect and herbicide tolerance, help to increase yields by protecting plants that would otherwise be lost due to insects or weeds.

Farmers Will Talk About Ag Biotech Benefits at Convention Session
10 April 2009 Truth About Trade & Technology
With the advent of biotech, millions of farmers around the world have experienced several expected – as well as some not-so-expected – benefits by using biotechnology on their farms.

GM Rice Yields 50% More Harvest Even With Less Fertilizer and Water Use
09 April 2009 Manila Bulletin
A genetically modified (GM) rice that can give 50 percent more harvest while requiring less fertilizer and water is seen as a long term solution to low yield in resource-scarce, poverty-stricken farms threatened by climate change.

Remarks by Dirk Dijkerman, Acting Assistant Administrator,Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance
07 April 2009 USAID
Monsanto, for instance, is sharing proprietary seed technology with smallholder farmers in several sub-Saharan African countries to increase crop yields and resistance to drought and disease.

US's Vilsack Says Science Can Help Overcome Hunger
07 April 2009 Reuters
Developing countries must embrace new technologies for agriculture in order to address a growing global food crisis, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Tuesday.

Solution To Drought: It's In The Genes
07 April 2009 Investor's Business Daily
But the greatest boon of all, both to food security and to the environment in the long term, may be the ability of new crop varieties to tolerate periods of drought and other water-related stresses.

GM Canola Performance Guide Released
07 April 2009 Farm Weekly
The GRDC's Dr Andreas Betzner described GM herbicide resistant canola as "another tool in the toolbox" for many growers.

BSAS Conference: Biodiesel A Source of Cheap Pig Feed
07 April 2009 Farmers Weekly
Biodiesel production may be the solution to providing a cheap source of energy in pig diets, research at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Northern Ireland, has shown.

EMBRAPA and JIRCAS Team up to Develop Drought-Proof Soybean
04 April 2009 EMBRAPA
The International Cooperation Agency of Japan (JICA) has approved a USD 6 million project to develop drought tolerant soybean varieties in Brazil.

Texas AgriLife Accepts Largest Donation of Cotton Technology; Donation Set To Advance Cotton Research
03 April 2009 Monsanto
Texas AgriLife Research, a part of the Texas A&M System, announced it has received the largest private donation of cotton technology from one of the world's leading agriculture companies, Monsanto Company.

A New Green Revolution
03 April 2009 Washington Times
This new revolution won't succeed without new tools, namely biotechnology and genetically modified (GM) seeds, to meet the enormous demands for increased production.

Anti-HIV Drug from GM Tobacco
03 April 2009 Crop Biotech
Scientists from the United Kingdom and the United States have developed transgenic tobacco plants accumulating high levels of griffithsin (GRFT), a protein that has been shown to be effective against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) even at picomolar concentrations.

Monsanto Delivers Record Second-Quarter and First-Half Sales; Gross Profit Up 14 Percent and 25 Percent In Second Quarter and First Half, Respectively
02 April 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto reported record net sales of $4 billion for the second quarter of fiscal year 2009, which were 8 percent higher than sales in the same period in fiscal year 2008.

Great Expectations For Obama
02 April 2009 Forbes
Biotech crops produced for food and biofuel carry an added environmental benefit as we deal with climate change.

Genome Sequencing to Aid Sorghum Research
01 April 2009 Ethanol Producer Magazine
Plant breeders looking toward sorghum as a next-generation ethanol feedstock have new insight into the genetics of the drought-tolerant plant following the publication of the sorghum genome by the U.S. DOE Joint Genome Institute and several partner institutions.

GM Crops to Cushion Food Security
31 March 2009 VietNamNet
The expected introduction of genetically modified plants into the Vietnamese market in 2015 will give consumers more choice, says director of the Agricultural Genetics Institute Associate Professor Le Huy Ham.

Dr. Borlaug Expresses Pleasure for Monsanto Support for International Scholars
31 March 2009 Southwest Farm Press
Those attending his recent birthday celebration in Dallas seemed awed, inspired and moved by the brief comments Dr. Borlaug made in response to an announcement by Monsanto that a new scholarship program will honor him and revered rice breeder Dr. Henry Beachell.

Nearly 70 Percent of Health Professionals Support Biotechnology's Use in Food Products
31 March 2009 National Soybean Board via Fox Business
The study found that nearly 70 percent of healthcare professionals report having an overall favorable view of agricultural biotechnology for use in food products (68 percent).

Airlines May Use Biofuels on Commercial Flights Within 5 Years
31 March 2009 Bloomberg
Airlines may win approval to start using biofuels for their flights as early as 2010 and find commercially viable solutions within five years as they seek to cut carbon emissions and trim dependence on petroleum-based fuel, the International Air Transport Association said.

Gates Foundation Paying $24M to Improve Crop Science for Poor Nations
30 March 2009 Seattle Times
The Seattle-based philanthropy announced a $48 million collaboration with the National Science Foundation to fund cutting-edge research on ways to make crops resistant to drought, disease and pests, improve soil quality and tackle a wide range of problems that limit agricultural productivity in Africa and other poor corners of the world.

GE Food Could Bring Stability to Poor Nations
30 March 2009 Financial Post
For a growing number of farmers in the southern hemisphere, most particularly Africa, genetically engineered (GE) crops may provide the best possible solution to increasing food costs.

Biotechnology Helps Solve Poverty Problems
28 March 2009 Angola Press
Angolan deputy minister of Science and Technology, Orlando da Mata, Friday in Huambo, said that the knowledge of biotechnology can be a valuable instrument in the solution of problems related to poverty, famine, unemployment, public health and environment.

Clean Slate
28 March 2009 Molokai Dispatch
The international scientific community, including the American Medical Association, US National Academy of Sciences, the World Health Organization, and the European Commission, have all examined the health and environmental safety of biotech crops and concluded that biotech crops pose no more risk than crops produced through traditional crop breeding methods.

Farm View: Nothing to Fear from Biotech
28 March 2009 Daily Journal
Farm Bureau supports increased efforts through biotechnology to more rapidly develop products which have recognized consumer benefits. Some of these benefits include increased marketability of farm products, enhancing the environment and better product quality.

Cotton as Food in Second Green Revolution
27 March 2009 Delta Farm Press
C.S. Prakash, plant molecular geneticist at Tuskeegee University, says “the biggest advance in cotton is how adaptation of these genetically engineered varieties has dramatically altered the way we grow cotton. We don’t use as much chemicals any more, and that has made a big difference.”

Why the Developing World Needs a New Food Deal
26 March 2009 The Globe and Mail
For a growing number of farmers in the southern hemisphere, particularly Africa, genetically engineered crops may provide the best possible solution to increasing food costs.

GM Can Safeguard the Environment
25 March 2009 Farmers Guardian
Worldwide use of pest-resistant genetically modified crops (GM) has reduced pesticide use by nearly 300 million kg - equivalent to the EU's entire yearly usage of sprays.

Monsanto Company Commits $10 Million to Rice and Wheat Research Program
25 March 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company today announced a $10 million grant to establish Monsanto's Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program, which will help identify and support young scientists interested in improving research and production in rice and wheat, two of the world's most important staple crops, through plant breeding techniques.

Burkina Cotton Farmers Expanding GM, Organic Cultivation
25 March 2009 The Guardian
Local researchers working on genetically modified cotton, developed jointly by U.S. company Monsanto and national scientists, have found the strain requires only one or two pesticide treatments a year instead of the normal six to eight, and boosts production by 30 percent.

It's When, Not If, GM Crops Will be Grown in the UK
24 March 2009 Farmers Weekly Blogs
A seminar arranged by The Farmers Club at its HQ in London on Monday concluded that the introduction of GM crops to UK agriculture was necessary and inevitable.

Why We Need GM Crops
21 March 2009 The Times
Modern biotechnology allows scientists to achieve this genetic change in more targeted fashion.

CSIRO Plans Limited Release of GM Wheat Varieties
20 March 2009 ISAAA
Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) has submitted an application to the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR) for the limited and controlled release of up to 16 genetically modified wheat varieties.

Global Wheat Crop Threatened by Fungus: A Q&A with Han Joachim Braun
20 March 2009 Scientific America
If we could use genetic modification, that would be a new road to address production constraints in wheat.

Can GM Crops Counter the 'Perfect Storm?'
19 March 2009 Blatherskite
One of the solutions, the professor says, might be genetically-modified crops as 30 to 40 per cent of existing food production is lost to pests and disease before it can be harvested.

Martin Currie Resources Fund Eyes Utilities
17 March 2009 Reuters
The fund has also taken a position in Monsanto , a food biotechnology company, which has been heavily derated but has a strong product pipeline and stands to gain from price increases, he added.

Do GM Crops Increase Yield?
17 March 2009 OpEd News
GM crops generally have higher yields due to both breeding and biotechnology.

Biotech Could Save World Wheat Crops
17 March 2009 Spero News
Two breakthroughs in biotechnology have just produced two rust-resistance wheat genes that offer the most promising strategy ever found for beating the rust fungus threat.

GM Key to Food Shortage
16 March 2009 Weekly Times Now
Genetically modified crops have a key role in meeting a massive surge in world demand for food over the next 15 years, a leading plant scientist says.

Government Launches Bid to Allay Fears over GM Food
16 March 2009 The Independent
Several Cabinet ministers are convinced that GM technology will help to solve the world's food crisis.

Think Tank: GM Could Be Top of the Crops
15 March 2009 The Sunday Times
Certain agricultural technologies, such as genetically modified (GM) crops, have been championed as a way to maximise production while having a minimal environmental impact.

Big Three Nations Combine for Biotech Wheats
15 March 2009 Farm Weekly
Leading wheatgrower representative groups in Australia, Canada and America are joining forces to prepare for the introduction of biotech wheat varieties into the world's export markets.

Anti-cancer Drug from Transgenic Moss
13 March 2009 ISAAA
Scientists at the Southern Illinois University and Washington University in the U.S. have developed transgenic moss (Phsycomitrella patens) accumulating high levels of paclitaxel, a potent anti-cancer drug.

Biotech Ministers Support the Use of Biotech for Food Security
13 March 2009 ISAAA
Similarly, Bangladesh Food and Agriculture Organization representative Ad Spijkers expressed his support to biotech and basic research especially for developing saline tolerant crops and other varieties of crops with important traits for food security.

New Study Shows Better GHG Emissions Reduction for Corn Ethanol
13 March 2009 ISAAA
Scientists from the University of Nebraska (United States) report that "corn-ethanol systems have substantially greater potential to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reduce dependence on imported petroleum for transportation fuels than reported previously".

Another Green Revolution
12 March 2009 City Journal
Genetic modification also offers the potential of consumer-focused improvements, such as staple crops fortified with extra nutrients.

Shun Biotechnology at Your Own Peril, Scientist Warns
11 March 2009 Africa Science News Service
Tired of not seeing action, African scientists have issued a stern warning to their governments: adopt modern technologies in agricultural production or forget about reducing poverty and disease in your midst.

Monsanto's Historic R&D Investment has Contributed to Mid-20s Gross Profit Growth for Its Seeds and Genomics Segment
10 March 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto's historic investment in research and development in breeding and biotechnology has contributed to a 24 percent compound annual growth rate for the company's Seeds and Genomics segment since 2001.

Mexico May Be Growing GM Corn by 2012
10 March 2009 Associated Press via International Herald Tribune
Agriculture Secretary Alberto Cardenas says GM varieties could boost production by 30 percent.

Roundup Ready 2 YieldTM Soybeans Sold By Seed Count in 2009
10 March 2009 Monsanto Canada
Starting in 2009, all Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans will be sold by seed count instead of by weight.

GM Crops Raising the Standard of Living
09 March 2009 Stock & Land
In agricultural-based developing countries, biotech crops are an engine of rural economic growth that, in turn, can contribute substantially to national economic growth.

Monsanto Completes Regulatory Submissions in U.S. and Canada for World's First Biotech Drought-Tolerant Corn Product
09 March 2009 Monsanto
In keeping with its commitment to deliver innovations for agriculture, Monsanto Company announced today that it has completed regulatory submissions in the U.S. and Canada for the world's first biotech drought-tolerant corn product developed together with Germany-based BASF.

The Biotech Frontier
09 March 2009 Policy Innovations
[W]e must use our agricultural land more intensively. Genetically modified organisms can help with that.

Mexico Allows GM Corn for Experiments
07 March 2009 Associated Press
Mexico is changing its laws to allow the planting of genetically modified corn for experimental reasons.

Buy Monsanto to Capitalize on Steady Demand for Agricultural Commodities
06 March 2009 Financial Post
Monsanto Co. is expected to see nearly 30% earning growth in 2009 based on analysts' estimates, according to data from Thomson Reuters.

Climate Change Triggers Surge in Brazilian GM Crop Testing
06 March 2009 ICSTD
Brazilian scientists say 2009 will be big year for the expansion of genetically modified (GM) crops in the country as they search for ways to overcome the negative agricultural impacts related to climate change.

Wheat Growers Approve Petition to Support Biotech Wheat
06 March 2009 CropBiotech
About 76 percent of wheat growers in the United States approved a petition supporting the commercialization of biotechnology in wheat.

Uganda to Start Biotech Cotton Trials
06 March 2009 CropBiotech
Uganda's National Agriculture Research Organization (NARO) will soon start testing bollworm resistant cotton (BGII) and herbicide tolerant cotton, known as Roundup Ready Flex (RRF), in two major cotton growing regions of Uganda, one in the East and another in the West.

South Korean Approves LibertyLink, Roundup Ready 2 for Import
05 March 2009 Wisconsin Ag Connection
South Korean officials approved imports for LibertyLink and Roundup Ready 2 Yield Soybeans last week, making these U.S. biotech traits one step closer to South Korean markets.

Monsanto Acquires 49% Stake In Brazil Cotton Seed Co
04 March 2009 CNN
Agribusiness company Monsanto Co. (MON) acquired a 49% stake in Brazilian cotton seed company MDM Sementes de Algodao Ltda for an undisclosed amount, Monsanto said.

Plastic from Potatoes
04 March 2009 GMO Safety
One prototype for such plants is a potato that has been genetically modified so that its tubers and leaves produce cyanophycin, which can be used to obtain a biodegradable plastic.

Inconvenient Truths: Don't Believe the Greenwash
03 March 2009 The Independent
One third of agriculture's greenhouse emissions are caused by the production of nitrogen-based fertilisers. Some of the biggest names in GM are developing crops whose greater efficiency would mean higher yields for less fertiliser.

Aussies Reckon Tequila Plant's Worth a Shot in Biofuel Search
03 March 2009 ABC News
It's most well-known for being the main ingredient in the production of the Mexican spirit tequila, but a drought-resistant succulent plant is being touted as the next generation in biofuels.

Netherlands: GM Work Boosts Apple Disease Resistance
03 March 2009 Fresh Plaza
Apples are being genetically modified in the Netherlands to make them resistant to scab and in due course other diseases, too.

Agriculture Biotechnology and the Global Climate Crisis
03 March 2009 IP Handbook Blog
Gore and Lugar, along with other proponents of biotechnology, should use the Copenhagen conference as an opportunity to stress the global benefits derived from successful implementation of GM crops in order to ensure that high crop yields are not a problem as global warming becomes worse in the future as many experts predict.

Cuba Plants First Genetically Modified Corn Crops
03 March 2009 Cuba News Headlines
Genetically modified corn is being grown for the first time in Cuba as a part of an experiment aimed at obtaining high-yield varieties.

Biotechnology Has to Play Key Role
03 March 2009 The Peninsula
Plant varieties created with biotechnology are grown more efficiently and economically than traditional crops.

US Wheat Farmers in Favor of Biotech Wheat
02 March 2009 Gerson Lehrman Group
Recently a survey conducted in USA which involved more than 21000 producers showed that most of them were in favor of bringing biotechnology into wheat so that they can combat major problems like drought, heat, salt and stress.

Cuba Eyes Biotech Corn for Tropical Climes
02 March 2009 Caribbean Net News
Cuba is developing genetically modified corn (maize) that can be used with strong herbicides and are resistant to the boundless appetite of the fall armyworm, a major threat to tropical nations' corn crops, official media reported Saturday.

Doubling a Gene in Corn Results in Giant Biomass
02 March 2009 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois plant geneticist Stephen Moose has developed a corn plant with enormous potential for biomass, literally. It yields corn that would make good silage, Moose said, due to a greater number of leaves and larger stalk, which could also make it a good energy crop.

Lugar Calls for Deeper Understanding of Food Shortage Challenges
01 March 2009 American Chronicle
Opposition to safe GM technology contributes to hunger in Africa in the short run and virtually ensures that much of the continent will lack the tools to adapt their agriculture to changing climatic conditions in the long run.

Let’s All Play the Name Game
01 March 2009 Hoosier Ag Today
Considering the amount of science that goes into these products and the fact that GMO enhancement usually makes the product taste better, last longer, or be better for us, it sounds like a good description.

Bill Gates to Fund $47m Anti-Drought GM Maize Study
28 February 2009 The East African
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Howard G Buffett Foundation are to sponsor a five-country study on a drought-resistant maize variety to a tune of $47 million.

Restriction of GM Crops Makes Wales Look Anti-Technology, Claims Scientist
27 February 2009 Western Mail
Dr Murphy believes the genetic modification of publicly owned crops could create high-vitamin foods which would boost agriculture and help eliminate hunger in the developing world.

Mahyco Gets Ready to go Commercial for Bt Rice, Wheat
27 February 2009 Food & Beverage News
The Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Company (Mahyco in short), specialized in genetically modified (GM) crops, is all set to go commercial with the Bt varieties of staple crops such as rice, wheat and some vegetables in India.

Monsanto Launches Genuity™ to Simplify Farmer Decision-Making for Technology Traits
26 February 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto today announced the launch of Genuity™, a family of traits designed to work together to enhance crop potential and simplify trait selection for farmers.

'Bt Crops Can Boost Agri Yield'
26 February 2009 Business Standard
In a short span of six years, 2002-2007, Bt cotton has generated economic benefits of $ 3.2 billion, halved insecticides requirements, contributed to the doubling of yield and transformed India from a cotton importer to a major exporter with doubling the production to 28.5-29.5 bales in 2008-09.

U.S. Wheat Farmers Want Biotech Wheat - Survey
26 February 2009 Reuters
A large number of U.S. wheat growers would embrace genetically altered wheat to help them combat a range of crop problems and keep wheat competitive with other crops, according to a survey by the National Association of Wheat Growers.

Agriculture Responds to Drought
26 February 2009 The Dallas Morning News
For our part, Monsanto invests $2.6 million daily researching ways to help farmers produce and conserve more.

The Audacity of Science
26 February 2009 Daily Times
But the most important argument that the Prime Minister should make is to defend the rationality of science against the incoherent but effective anti-science lobby that makes public debate about risk so fraught.

Genetically Engineered Crop Produce Is Not Potentially More Allergenic Than the Counterparts
26 February 2009 Plant Biotech Blog
In fact, among all the foods we consume, the GE foods are the most thoroughly tested for allergenicity and toxicity.

Plant a Seed for Future Portfolio Growth
25 February 2009 Oxbury Publishing
For investors looking to play future global growth and who want to own a “technology” stock, they need look no further than Monsanto.

GM Canola to be Planted in WA
25 February 2009 The Perth Sunday Times
This week farmers met with seed creator Monsanto, seeking approval to sow the biotechnology giant's modified seeds.

Three More Biotech Crops to Hit Market in 2012–Plant Scientist
25 February 2009 Business Mirror
Three modified crops, including rice, resistant to common pests will hit the domestic market in the next three years.

Shredding Corn Silage Could Produce More Ethanol at Less Cost
25 February 2009 Purdue University
Buckmaster said those differences are all the more impressive when considering the energy savings tied to shredding, giving ethanol makers potentially more cellulose for less cost.

Kenya-Disease in Wheat Crop
25 February 2009 Farming UK
A key to the epidemic may lie in the use of GM wheat in the future as there appears no solution to the current crisis.

GM Crops Aid Food Security
25 February 2009 iAfrica
South Africa's adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops continues to expand at an impressive rate. According to Dr Kobus Laubscher, CEO of Grain SA, this is an important development for sustainable food production in South Africa.

Biofuels Industries Form Global Renewable Fuels Alliance
25 February 2009 Global Renewable Fuels Alliance
The Alliance will promote and support biofuels friendly policies internationally so that all countries can harness the significant economic, environmental and social benefits of biofuels production.

Getting an Appetite for Biotechnology
24 February 2009 BBC News
As the challenges we face become more acute, there has never been a better time for a genuine discussion about the benefits of biotechnology, smart breeding and GM crops for industrial use.

Commercial Yeasts Upgraded With an Enzyme for Biofuel Production
24 February 2009 Goethe University Frankfurt
Eckhard Boles, co-founder of the Swiss biofuel company Butalco GmbH and a professor at Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany, has discovered a new enzyme which teaches yeast cells to ferment xylose into ethanol.

Op-Ed: Farmers will Eventually Win the Biotech Fight
24 February 2009 Agri-Marketing
When barriers come down all over the globe, the world's farmers will have the best tools possible to meet the incredible challenge of doubling food production to meet the demands of 9 billion people who will inhabit this earth by 2030.

Monsanto According To Monsanto
23 February 2009 AgWired
Monsanto has launched a blog with multiple contributors and they start right out being pretty open about “things.” I think this is great and look forward to how it develops.

UK Farmers Can Help Lead Global Agriculture Revolution
23 February 2009 Farmers Guardian
Part of that,[Ajay Vashee] said, could involve using GM technology, and while essentially it was up to farmers to choose whether to use it or not, Governments need to investigate all avenues open to them.

GM Crops to Meet Food Security and Sustainability, Says ISAAA Chief
21 February 2009 Food & Beverage News
Addressing the convention, CR Bhatia, a renowned geneticist and plant breeder in the country, said, "The use of Biotechnology in agriculture has revealed that GM crops helps enhance food production and also offer food security and sustainability."

SA Maintains its GM Food Productivity
20 February 2009 The Herald
Genetically modified (GM) maize crops grew by 10000 hectares last year while South Africa remained the eighth-biggest producer of GM foods in the world, AgriSA announced yesterday.

Surging Prices May Boost Demand for GM Crops
20 February 2009 Economic Times
In addition to aiding in issues of food security, biotech crops have an important role to play in decreasing environmental impact and improving sustainability of food production.

Monsanto Support Fuels Youth Science Education Program
20 February 2009 Monsanto
This year the Monsanto Fund will play an important role in helping all this happen through its infusion of $75,000 in support for Actua, a Canadian national charity with a mission to inspire youth through hands-on science, engineering and technology programming.

Guayule: Is This Desert Shrub a Fuel of the Future?
20 February 2009 USDA
Bioenergy can be made from ground-up guayule stems and branches, left after their white, rubber-rich latex has been removed, McMahan noted.

Going Green
19 February 2009 Guelph Mercury
Jennifer Elliott, regulatory affairs manager with Monsanto Canada, said the biotech giant has discovered a genetically engineered plant-based source for stearidonic acid, an Omega-3. Monsanto is working with a number of companies to find ways to use this plant-based alternative in everything from dairy products to snack foods.

Gene to Reduce Wheat Yield Losses
19 February 2009 Norwich Biosciences Institutes
A new gene that provides resistance to a fungal disease responsible for millions of hectares of lost wheat yield has been discovered by scientists from the US and Israel.

ICC President Discusses Challenges Facing Cereal Science in 2009
19 February 2009 NutraIngredients
He attests that genetic engineering is necessary, even going as far to say that "the failure to implement this technology is a contributory factor in the dramatic rise in food prices."

Brazil Climate Change Threatens Top Coffee Crop
19 February 2009 Associated Press
This year, the scientists are preparing the first large-scale plantings to test the productivity of new genetically modified soy crops at a climate-controlled research station in the southern state of Parana.

Monsanto's Game-Changing Technologies Poised to Help Seeds & Genomics Segment Generate More Than 60 Percent Gross Profit Growth Over Next Three Years
18 February 2009 Monsanto
Fueled by its innovative research-and-development (R&D) platform, Monsanto Company's seeds and traits strategy is the fundamental driver to the company's future growth and fiscal 2012 financial goals.

Monsanto Building China R&D Center; Eyes Asia,Americas
18 February 2009 CNN Money
The St. Louis-based company launched an initiative in June last year to double crop yields in corn, soybeans and cotton by 2030 while reducing the required water and fertilizer.

Biosafety Act Now Paves the Way for GMOs
18 February 2009 Business Daily Africa
President Kibaki has finally assented to the Biosafety Act 2008, paving the way for the commercialization of modern biotechnology products or genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Kenya.

Kenya Approves GM After Years of Delays
18 February 2009 SciDev Net
Kenya has become the fourth African country to allow the production and use of genetically modified (GM) crops after president Mwai Kibaki signed off on parliament's approval of new biosafety legislation last week.

GM Canola Plantings to Skyrocket
18 February 2009 Weekly Times Now
Gene technology company Monsanto and GM seed retailer NuSeed say favourable weather conditions would ensure a huge expansion of the crop.

Scientists Seek Stronger Crops
17 February 2009 China Daily
Under severe drought conditions, genetically modified (GM) rice could produce 22 to 34 percent more seeds than non-GM rice, Science Magazine, a world-leading science journal, reported.

Wyo. Sugar Beets Yield Sweet Success
17 February 2009 Associated Press via Local News 8
Some are attributing much of last year's success to Roundup Ready beets, which were grown commercially in widespread areas for the first time in 2008.

Vietnam to Grow Genetically Modified Crops by 2015: Conference
17 February 2009 Thanh Nien Daily
Vietnamese farmers will be growing genetically modified crops by 2015, said Agricultural Genetics Institute head Le Huy Ham at a conference in Hanoi last week.

Monsanto Starts India GM Corn Trials, eyes Indonesia
17 February 2009 Reuters
Monsanto officials said GM seeds have improved corn yields by between 15 and 50 percent in the Philippines and nearly half of the corn area in the country is now planted with insect- and weed-resistant seeds.

Frankenstein or Frankincense Crops?
17 February 2009 Desicritics.org
Given the lack of additional farm land, water, the only thing to do is to improve productivity of the existing cropland. GM foods provides one with a way to do this.

Keystone Alliance Gives Credit to Farmers
16 February 2009 Canada Free Press
Meanwhile, Monsanto is running an ad that asks, “How Can We Squeeze More Food from a Raindrop?” They hope new drought-tolerant crops will help farmers use one-third less water per bushel.

Triple Stack Technologies to Clip Premiums for Crop Insurance
16 February 2009 Farm & Ranch Guide
Triple stack corn technologies will qualify farmers in 11 states for reduced crop insurance premiums as a result of a program developed by Monsanto and Western Agricultural Insurance Co.

World Will Need GM Crops to Survive
15 February 2009 The Courier-Mail
GM crop research aims to provide solutions to the associated problems of climate change. These include high-energy GM pasture grasses and GM wheat varieties with improved drought tolerance

Farmers Face Rising Food Demand, Declining Water
13 February 2009 Associated Press via Baltimore Examiner
Monsanto, based in St. Louis, said last month it has submitted a drought-tolerant corn product to federal regulators for approval. It hopes to have the seeds on the market by 2012.

Farm Leaders Back Call for GM Crops in Europe
13 February 2009 Farmers Guardian
The NFU has backed calls for politicians in Europe to give farmers the chance to grow GM crops after a recent survey showed a majority of farmers were in favour of the technology.

Figuring out Green Power -- MSU Scientists Speed up Discovery of Plant Metabolism Genes
13 February 2009 Michigan State University
Michigan State University researchers are dramatically speeding up identification of genes that affect the structure and function of chloroplasts, which could lead to plants tailored specifically for biofuel production or delivering high levels of specific nutrients.

Parasite-Resistant Kaize 'A Hit' with Nigerian Farmers
13 February 2009 SciDev Net
Nigerian farmers who tested new maize crops resistant to the widespread Striga plant parasite are so enthusiastic about their increased crop yields that they are selling more seeds than the official distribution channels.

GM Crops Continue Global Spread
12 February 2009 Financial Times
The ISAAA review argues that biotech crops "make an impressive contribution to sustainable agriculture", by increasing yields of food, fibre and biofuels while reducing farming's environmental footprint.

New Figures Show 2008 ‘Biotech Boom’
12 February 2009 Farmers Guardian
Biotech crops are set for a major boom after almost 11 million hectares of new plantings were recorded in 2008.

French Agency says Monsanto GMO Maize Safe: Report
11 February 2009 Reuters
Biotech crops, on the heels of a robust 2008 and bolstered by increased political will to meet food demands, are poised for a second wave of strong adoption that will drive sustained global growth through the end of the second decade of commercialization 2006 to 2015, according the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA).

World Biotech Crop Plantings Climb 9.4%, Group Says
11 February 2009 Bloomberg
Global planting of biotech crops rose 9.4 percent last year as U.S. farmers cultivated genetically modified sugar beet for the first time and 1.2 million growers in India adopted bioengineered cotton, an industry group said.

West Australia May Allow GM Canola Production After Trials
11 February 2009 Bloomberg
Western Australia, the nation’s largest grain growing state, may start commercial production of genetically modified canola as long as trials are successful, state Premier Colin Barnett said.

Monsanto's Success in Seed and Trait Technologies Leading The Way Toward 2012 Gross Profit Goals
10 February 2009 Monsanto
With the strong early reception of Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans this year for Monsanto's controlled commercial release in the United States on 1.5 million acres, Crews will note the company is reviewing its production plans to ensure it meets its target range of 5 million to 6 million U.S. soybean acres for the 2010 full commercial launch.

Cornell Helps India's Small Farmers Fight Moth Larvae with Genetically Modified Eggplant
10 February 2009 Cornell University
Small farmers in India will soon have a cheaper, safer and more effective option for growing one of India's favorite foods: genetically modified eggplant, developed with Cornell's help, which continually expresses a naturally occurring insecticide derived from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt).

Scientists Launch New GM Guide
10 February 2009 Farmers Guardian
The guide is supported by some of Britain’s most reputable scientists and research centres and hopes to stimulate fresh discussion on genetic modification. Its aim is to respond to public questions and misconceptions about GM technology that is grown and eaten widely across the world.

GM and Plant Science
09 February 2009 Sense About Science
In the guide, the heads of the independent, public-sector research centres in the UK call for a discussion about GM that helps the public and policy makers to judge what crop technologies could contribute to global food supply and to the management of natural resource and changes in climate.

‘Daft, Half-Baked’ Green Schemes Attacked
06 February 2009 The Press and Journal
[Sean Rickard] too called on the industry to do more to ensure a future for GM technology - if farmers are to meet the growing demand for higher quality food from the same land resources as well as cut their water and energy use, reduce their environmental impact as well as dramatically lower production costs.

US Growers Tackle Weeds with Herbicide-Tolerant Beet
06 February 2009 Farmers Guardian
The US sugar beet crop is predicted to be nearly 100 per cent GM in 2009 following widespread adoption of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready (RR) herbicide-tolerant beet.

Monsanto Launches New Ag-Chem Resource Centre
06 February 2009 Stackyard
Monsanto’s extensive library of agrochemical technical and product information and advice is freely available to all UK growers and agronomists with the launch of a specialist internet resource centre this week.

Assembly’s GM Crops Embargo Out of Place, Scientist Insists
05 February 2009 Western Mail
In a debate at the Science Museum in London, Professor Robert Watson, the chief scientific adviser at the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, said GM technology should be investigated in light of concerns over global food security.

Monsanto Shares Rise After its New Soybean Trait Debut
05 February 2009 Medill Reports
Bucking the economic downdraft, Monsanto Co. has continually raised its sales and earnings due to strong agricultural product sales, and it expects an even stronger performance in the coming year with the next generation of higher yielding soybean technology introduced to the market this week.

USDA considers using GE corn for ethanol
05 February 2009 UPI via MarketWatch
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering approving the use of genetically engineered corn for use in manufacturing ethanol.

Cold Weather Biodiesel Study Great News for Canola Industry
05 February 2009 Canola Council of Canada
The latest research from the Alberta Renewable Diesel Demonstration (ARDD) affirms the functionality of canola as a feedstock for renewable diesel in cold weather conditions, says JoAnne Buth, president of the Canola Council of Canada.

Monsanto Executives to Discuss Company's Growth Drivers, Profit Goals at Investor Conferences in February
04 February 2009 Monsanto
On the heels of a strong start to fiscal 2009, Monsanto Company executives will explain to investors this month where the company sees its opportunities for continued growth through the rest of this year and how it plans to achieve its goal of more than doubling its fiscal 2007 gross profit level by fiscal 2012.

Historic Seed Delivery Made in Illinois for First New Soybean Varieties With the Greater Yield Potential of Roundup Ready 2 Yield™
04 February 2009 Monsanto
The technology, Monsanto's Roundup Ready 2 Yield™ soybean trait, is expected to be the platform for Monsanto's new soybean technologies in the coming decade.

Monsanto (MON): Planting the seeds of growth
04 February 2009 BloggingStocks
"Investing in food is a simple story: expanding supply and demand fueled by rising global urbanization," says Yiannis Mostrous. In Personal Finance newsletter the global advisor looks at Monsanto (NYSE: MON).

Uganda Business News: Scientists Find 'Yield-Improving Rice Gene'
04 February 2009 Uganda Business News
Chinese scientists have identified a rice gene that could simultaneously control the crop's yield, plant height, and number of days to flowering.

Tesco Boss Prepares for GM U-Turn
02 February 2009 Food Manufacture
Speaking in a panel debate after delivering the City Food Lecture in London last week, Leahy said: “It may have been a failure of us all to stand by the science. “Maybe there is an opportunity to discuss again these issues and a growing appreciation by people that GM could play a vital role [in feeding the world’s growing population in the face of climate change].”

ADM, Monsanto to Study Converting Corn Waste to Biofuels
02 February 2009 Natural News
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) Co., Deere & Co. and Monsanto Co. will conduct research into whether it can be economically viable to gather, store and transport the unused leaves, stalks and cobs of corn plants, known as "stover."

Rice Weed Control Technology
02 February 2009 Delta Farm Press
Roundup Ready crops and Clearfield rice have proven farmers will make crop management decisions based upon herbicide options. If rice is to keep pace with the crops it must compete with for acres, weed control technology will need to keep pace as well.

It is Now Time to Embrace GM Technology
01 February 2009 The Sunday Observer
Less than a decade ago, Sir Robert May - then the government's chief scientific adviser - remarked that people who opposed the growing of GM crops display "the attitude of a privileged elite who think there will be no problem feeding tomorrow's growing population". The wisdom of those words has become apparent in a frighteningly short time.

Washington Announces US$25 Million for Biofuels
01 February 2009 Canadian Driver
The U.S. Departments of Energy (DOE) and Agriculture (USDA) have announced up to US$25 million in funding for biofuel research and development.

Primafuel, Converting Algae to Green Gasoline
01 February 2009 The Daily Green
Initially, he said, it will be blended into conventional fuels, much as ethanol is today. Production costs are still relatively high, but Iyer predicts that cost-effective algae-based biofuels will be available in a few years.

Seed Companies Look to Increase Corn Yields
01 February 2009 Associated Press via Grand Forks Herald
And St. Louis-based Monsanto Co., the world’s largest seed company, has pledged to double yields from its crops by 2030.

GM in GM-free Wales
01 February 2009 CropGen
Fortunately for Wales, the country is also home to different sorts of grass with different sorts of roots: farmers who are not prepared for their futures to be determined by a doctrinaire agricultural dictatorship.

Scots Farmers Will Use GM to Fight Potato Blight 'in 10 Years'
31 January 2009 The Scotsman
Scottish potato producers will be using genetic modification in their battle against potato blight. The man behind this week's prediction, Denis Buckley, is an independent crop consultant based in Shropshire and he told a meeting of specialist growers in Perth that GM technology would be considered acceptable within the next ten years in dealing with this disease that can ravage a crop.

More Livestock to Get GM Feed
30 January 2009 The West Australian
An Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics report yesterday revealed broader adoption of the technology worldwide and recent commercial production of modified canola in Victoria and NSW had increased the amount of GM material in stock feed.

GM Crops May Double Agri Growth Rate
30 January 2009 Business Standard
India can replicate the success of BT cotton in other agricultural produce, including vegetables and food grain for sustaining the country’s future food and nutritional security, as the genetically modified (GM) crops have the capacity to double agriculture growth rate to 4 per cent per annum from the present rate which is around 2 per cent.

Biotech Food for Warmer World? Lugar Urging Consideration in Climate Treaty
29 January 2009 The Journal Gazette
Scientists have discovered ways to tweak the genetic makeup of crops such as corn and soybeans so they resist drought, weeds and bugs. That increases their durability and yields

New Cotton Community Provides Site for Farmers to Connect and Share Information
29 January 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company announces the launch of the Cotton Community (www.CottonCommunity.com), a new online web site designed to encourage farmer-to-farmer exchanges on topics such as variety performance and agronomic practices.

Scientist Backs GM Canola
29 January 2009 ABC News
The man who headed up Victoria's GM moratorium review, Sir Gustav Nossal, says genetically modified canola will eventually yield 20 per cent more than conventional varieties.

Scientists Publish Complete Genetic Blueprint of Key Biofuels Crop
29 January 2009 U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and several partner institutions have published the sequence and analysis of the complete genome of sorghum, a major food and fodder plant with high potential as a bioenergy crop.

‘GM Crops’ Part of Food Crisis Solution, U.K. Says
29 January 2009 Bloomberg
The world is facing an “enormous” challenge to feed a growing population as temperatures warm globally and genetically-modified foods may be part of the solution, the U.K. government’s top scientist said.

Improved Method for Comparing Genomes As Well As Written Text
29 January 2009 UC Berkeley
Taking a hint from the text comparison methods used to detect plagiarism in books, college papers and computer programs, University of California, Berkeley, researchers have developed an improved method for comparing whole genome sequences.

ABARE Releases Report on Stockfeed Containing GM Ingredients in Australia
29 January 2009 ABARE
Given current GM regulations, and degrees of consumer acceptance and awareness in Australia and its major livestock product export markets, it seems unlikely Australian livestock producers who choose to use GM feed will be disadvantaged.

The Green Monster
28 January 2009 Slate
At the very least, they might treat them as legitimate ethical and scientific matters deserving of a fair public hearing. Such a hearing, I would venture, would not only please farmers who were truly concerned about sustainability, but it would provide the rest of us—those of us who do not grow food for the world but only think about it—a more accurate source of scientific information than the back of a miso jar.

Why I Planted Genetically Modified Maize on My Welsh Farm
28 January 2009 The Guardian
For those of us who live in the real world we need to take advantage of every piece of technology we can find to develop our agriculture and help to feed the nearly 1bn of our fellow human beings who are short of food.

GM Rice vs. Bird Flu
28 January 2009 GMObelus
Hong Kong scientists claim to have created a genetically modified rice that provides protection for chickens from the bird flu virus.

New Collaboration Aims To Expand Seed-Based Technologies, Benefit Farmers
27 January 2009 Monsanto
Today, Monsanto announced that it has established a three-year collaboration with GrassRoots Biotechnology Inc., based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, to source novel genetic elements, including promoters and genes, which can enable crops to express traits that enhance and protect yield.

UK Gets Biofuels Research Centre
27 January 2009 BBC News
A centre that will act as the hub for biofuels research has been launched by Science Minister Lord Drayson.

Scientists Identify Bacteria that Increase Plant Growth
27 January 2009 DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
The findings, published in the February 1, 2009 issue of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, may help scientists design strategies for sustainable biofuel production that do not use food crops or agricultural land.

5 Steady Hands at the Wheel
27 January 2009 MSNBC
Horrible bear market with disappointing earnings all over the place except Monsanto and their forecast is mind boggling. Even in a Bear market people want to make money and that means the few good stocks will see strong upside.

Agbiotech can Help Mitigate Climate Change, But Will Europe Benefit
27 January 2009 EuropaBio via Checkbiotech
Ag biotech can contribute to meeting these goals by reducing the production of greenhouse gases, helping crops adapt to varied and often adverse environments and by helping to increase yields while using fewer hectares of land and other inputs.

Agricultural Biotechnology's Contribution to Improving the Standard of Living of Farmers Around the Globe
27 January 2009 The Council for Biotechnology Information
Biotech seeds or plant cuttings are a scale-neutral technology allowing farmers of all resource levels and economic backgrounds to share in the benefit from their use.

Heroic Farmer Defies Anti-Biotech Crop Ban in Wales
26 January 2009 Reason Magazine
If anti-biotech activists can claim that invading farms to tear up biotech crops are acts of civil disobedience, then surely farmers like Harrington can justify planting biotech crops as acts of civil disobedience. The difference is that Harrington has science on his side.

U.S.-African Partnership Developing Drought-Tolerant Maize
26 January 2009 U.S. Department of State
For WEMA, Monsanto will accelerate the selection process with marker-assisted breeding, which allows researchers to find and track genetic material associated with drought tolerance and focus on developing those lines.

Biotechnology has Perfect Fit in Obama's Vision
26 January 2009 Growers for Biotechnology via Truth About Trade & Technology
Farmers, who have seen biotechnology reduce our environmental footprint, increase our profits and expand our crop yields, are optimistic that those who seek to continue bringing new technologies to agriculture will not be stymied by onerous regulation or demagoguery.

We Must Not Squander our Biotech Expertise
25 January 2009 The Honolulu Advertiser
Rather than enacting prohibitions, our officials should be encouraging the industry to hasten its efforts in the development of this technology.

Great Expectations
23 January 2009 Truth about Trade & Technology
Since the commercial introduction of biotech seeds more than a decade ago, farmers in Brazil, Argentina, India, Canada, the United States, and elsewhere have planted nearly 2 billion acres of genetically improved soybeans, corn (maize), canola and cotton. As a result, they’ve enjoyed significant yield increases, which are essential if we hope to feed a global population of 7 billion people.

MARDI to Introduce Resistant Rice Seeds
23 January 2009 Crop Biotech Net
Director General Datuk Dr. Abdul Shukor Abdul Rahman says MARDI is developing new varieties of rice that are resistant to flood, drought, and high temperatures.

Gene's Past Could Improve the Future of Rice
23 January 2009 Purdue University
One example can be found in a variety of rice that has genes making it drought-resistant. Scientists could breed those genes into domesticated rice in Africa where water shortages can devastate crops.

K-State, Texas A&M Researchers Boost Lettuce Calcium Content
23 January 2009 Kansas State University
The researchers’ first report says their biofortified leaf lettuce lines are reproducing true to form and growing robustly under greenhouse conditions.

A Biotech Update and Review
23 January 2009 AgWeb Blogs
These ideas are further supported by research from the USDA that I just found tonight, but also published in November, stating that Bt corn was much better for the environment than conventional corn.

Converting Glycerine into Methanol for Biofuel
23 January 2009 Commodity Online
Experts from five European countries are researching methods of converting glycerine, a by-product of biodiesel production, into methanol in an effort to reuse it in the fuel-making process.

Monsanto Joining Research Roster at NCRC
23 January 2009 Charlotte Business Journal
The St. Louis-based company has been in talks about possible areas of research with the UNC Chapel Hill Nutrition Research Institute, says Dr. Steve Zeisel, institute director.

Farmers to Grow Bt Cotton With Govt’s Nod
23 January 2009 Pakissan.com
Farmers will start growing Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton with official permission from next kharif, Federal Textile Minister Rana Farooq Mohammad Khan informed a gathering of local businessmen on Thursday at Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Japanese Researchers Envisage Nicotine-Free Tobacco
22 January 2009 PhysOrg
Japanese researchers said Thursday they had identified a gene that transports nicotine through tobacco plants, a discovery that could pave the way to cigarettes free of the carcinogen.

Top Science Mind Backs GM Trials
22 January 2009 The West Australian via Truth About Trade & Technology
WA's Chief Scientist has supported a decision to proceed with trials of genetically modified crops, saying the issue had been considered carefully and agriculture would become more efficient.

Sainsbury's to Turn Food Waste into Biofuel
22 January 2009 Business Green
The green arms race between the UK's leading supermarkets continued this week as Sainsbury's followed the opening of Tesco's latest energy-efficient store with the unveiling of a major zero-waste initiative designed to ensure that all the company's food waste is converted into biofuel.

'World's Greatest Techno Challenge'
21 January 2009 The Press Association
The report called for the creation of more genetically modified pest and drought resistant crops, as well as nutritionally enhanced plant foods.

MSU-patented Process can Reduce the Cost of Making Cellulosic Biofuels
21 January 2009 Michigan State University
A patented Michigan State University process to pretreat corn-crop waste before conversion into ethanol means extra nutrients don't have to be added, cutting the cost of making biofuels from cellulose.

Scots Biomass Plant Given the Go-Ahead
21 January 2009 Farmers Weekly
Construction of a new £35m biomass-fuelled combined heat and power plant on Speyside in Scotland has moved a step closer after being granted planning permission by Moray Council.

BASF and Monsanto Formalize Agreement to Develop Dicamba-Based Formulation Technologies
20 January 2009 Monsanto
BASF and Monsanto Company today announced a new joint-licensing agreement to accelerate the development of the next-generation of dicamba- based weed control chemistry products.

At Least Five Agricultural Stocks with Upside
19 January 2009 Seeking Alpha
Monsanto has watched their company grow at supersonic speed due to Round-Up Ready and all sorts of drought resistant technologies.

Biotech Corn, Soybeans in Monsanto Pipeline, but Not Wheat
19 January 2009 Farm & Ranch Guide
The research efforts at Monsanto are focused on the company's “2030 Commitment,” which calls upon yields to be doubled in the core crops of corn, soybeans and cotton by the year 2030, while reducing by one-third key inputs such as water and energy required per unit produced.

Seed Companies Expanding Production of Healthier Oils
19 January 2009 Farm & Ranch Guide
Monsanto also is expecting more interest from food companies and processors for its Vistive low-linolenic soybean oil. In 2007, it had 1.5 million acres in the United States. In 2008, it had a 15 percent growth and is expecting that in 2009, says Ben Kampelman, a Monsanto spokesman.

GM Sorghum Test Approved
19 January 2009 Inter Press Service News Agency via Checkbiotech
As Africa grapples with the question of food insecurity, biotechnology buffs seem to have an answer: genetically modified crops that could feed a continent vulnerable to famine and food deficits.

Chemists Engineer Plants to Produce New Compounds
18 January 2009 MIT
In work that could expand the frontiers of genetic engineering, MIT chemists have, for the first time, genetically altered a plant to produce entirely new compounds, some of which could be used as drugs against cancer and other diseases

India Pips China, Japan in Food Safety Confidence: Study
16 January 2009 The Hindu
Interestingly, the survey pointed out that 84 per cent of Indians are ready to purchase biotech food such as tomato, food staples and cooking oils.

Speaker: Crop Genetics Needed for Increased Yield
16 January 2009 Lima Ohio.Com
The world population may be growing, the area of land used to feed the population is not. That makes getting more out of the crops that much more important, a crop genetics expert said Thursday

Biodiversity Can Bloom – in GM Fields, Too
16 January 2009 Aarhus University
If the crops are genetically modified to be resistant to the herbicide glyphosate, then it is possible to avoid increasing the dose as much as in conventional crops, according to results set out in a recent Danish report on a project financed by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Monsanto Board Approves 10 Percent Dividend Increase
14 January 2009 Monsanto
As the latest step in its ongoing commitment to return value to shareowners, Monsanto Company today announced that its Board of Directors declared a 10 percent increase in the quarterly dividend on its common shares from 24 cents per share to 26.5 cents per share.

New Science Shows Biofuels' "Carbon Debt" Can Be Eliminated
14 January 2009 Biotechnology Industry Organization
A newly published study shows that effective land management practices can reduce the so called carbon debt attributed to biofuels to near zero.

‘Going Organic’ Won’t Feed Every Hungry American
12 January 2009 AgWeek
We must not abandon biotech, the biggest advancement in food production history. We must promote it and use it to make the world a better place.

EU Official: Europe Must Eventually Accept Biotech
12 January 2009 American Farm Bureau
The EU must accept biotech food and feed or it won’t be able to feed its livestock, Rotenberg said, and would then need to import meat from animals fed biotech crops in the U.S. or elsewhere.

Monsanto Expanding Residual Herbicide Rebates
12 January 2009 Delta Farm Press
Monsanto is expanding the program, which was offered as a pilot to growers in a limited area in 2008, to 13 states to encourage farmers to follow those Extension specialists’ recommendations.

CropLife Supports Report that Demonstrates Improvements in Agriculture’s Impact on the Environment
12 January 2009 SeedQuest
The most detailed study to date shows that plant biotechnology helped increase U.S. agricultural production by 8.34 billion pounds on 123 million acres in 2005 (NCFAP 2006).

Farming Strides Toward Sustainability
12 January 2009 Science Now Magazine
The analysis, led by agronomist Stewart Ramsey of the consulting firm Global Insight, also finds that the amount of energy spent on farming has fallen by 40% to 60%, probably because farmers who plant genetically modified crops are driving tractors less frequently to spray pesticides and herbicides.

Biotech Seed Makes for Bumper Crops
12 January 2009 Peoria Journal Star
Another Monsanto product nearing the market is SmartStax corn where different genes have been linked to provide maximum insect resistance. Monsanto is also engineering new soybean products, said Roy Fuchs, the company's oilseed technology lead.

Monsanto, Stokes Bio Sign License Agreement for Innovative Gene Analysis Technology
12 January 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company and Limerick-based biotechnology firm, Stokes Bio Limited, announced today that they have entered into a licensing agreement and R&D collaboration, which is expected to help accelerate the pace of new advancements in plant breeding.

Mendel Biotechnology Yield Trait Reaches Phase III for Monsanto Soybean Products
10 January 2009 Mendel Biotechnology via Fox Business
Monsanto Company announced earlier this week that it has advanced its higher yielding soybean trait, sourced from Mendel Biotechnology, Inc., into its Phase III development stage.

Modified Rice May Resist Disease in Southeast Asia
10 January 2009 St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Recently, they discovered that a transgenic, or genetically modified, rice produces certain proteins that are more tolerant to infection from the rice tungro virus.

Cellulosic Ethanol Output Could "Explode"
09 January 2009 Reuters
Ethanol production from wood chips, grass and other plant material could "explode" by 2012 if a commercialized facility to produce the second generation of biofuels is successful, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said on Thursday.

Monsanto says GMO Cotton Seed out in Burkina Faso
08 January 2009 Reuters
Life sciences firm Monsanto (MON.N) said Thursday it released for commercial cultivation its Bollgard II cotton seed in the West African nation of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in the world.

GM Crops 'Reduce Toxic Pesticide Use'
08 January 2009 The Sydney Morning Herald
The NSW government says the move to genetically modified (GM) crops has greatly reduced the need for toxic pesticides such as endosulfan, which the Greens want banned.

Monsanto Increases Full-Year Ongoing Earnings-Per-Share Guidance After Reporting 117% Earnings Growth in First Quarter of Fiscal 2009
07 January 2009 Monsanto
Greater demand in Latin America for Monsanto Company's products propelled the company to record-setting net sales and net income results for its fiscal 2009 first quarter, which ended Nov. 30, 2008.

Monsanto Takes Major Step Toward Launch of World's First Drought-Tolerant Corn Product: Higher-Yielding Soybeans, SmartStax Corn, and Dicamba- and Glufosinate- Tolerant Cotton Also Move Forward in Co
07 January 2009 Monsanto
As farmers around the world search for innovative new technologies to help them produce more with fewer resources, Monsanto Company announced today that it is a major step closer to delivering the world's first-ever drought-tolerant corn product to farmers.

Monsanto's Latin Bloom
07 January 2009 Forbes
Greater demand in Latin America propelled Monsanto to embarrass Wall Street's first-quarter expectations, upping its guidance in the process.

Meltdown 101: How One Company Defies Bad Economy
07 January 2009 Associated Press
Analysts say the secret for the world's largest seed maker lies in good products, excellent sales timing and an industry that can be somewhat recession proof.

Monsanto Announces Yield Gains With Deltapine Class Of 09
06 January 2009 Monsanto
Monsanto Company today announced its D&PL business will market five new varieties as the Deltapine Class of 09 for the coming production season.

Uganda: GM Cassava Ready for Field Trials
06 January 2009 allAfrica
Laboratory experiments for the genetically modified (GM) cassava have been completed and the National Crops Resource Research Institute (NCRRI) Namulonge has sought permission from the National biosafety committee to transfer the genetically modified cassava from the green house to the field.

Danforth Center Scientists Identify Technology to Reduce the Spread of Rice Virus
06 January 2009 The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Danforth Center President Dr. Roger N. Beachy and Research Scientist Dr. Shunhong Dai demonstrated that transgenic rice plants that overexpress either of two rice proteins are tolerant to infection caused by the rice tungro bacilliform virus (RTVB) which is largely responsible for the symptoms associated with Rice Tungro disease.

Blight Fears Spark Call for GM Potato: Scientists Step Up Bid to Create Variety Resistant to New Aggressive Strain
04 January 2009 The Sunday Times
This has prompted experts to intensify work, including using GM technology, to find a blight-resistant variety.

Yale Researchers Create an Epic Genetic Atlas of Rice
04 January 2009 Yale University
Yale researchers have published a cellular atlas of genetic activity in rice, documenting with unprecedented detail how and when genes are turned off and on within cells of a living organism.

Deltapine® Class of 10 Varieties Presented in Beltwide Cotton Conferences New Development Session
04 January 2009 Monsanto
Farmers at the Beltwide Cotton Conferences will want to be in the New Developments in Industry session on seed varieties to hear three presentations by Monsanto personnel on the Deltapine® Class of 10 varieties.

Biotech Opponents Are Playing with Human Lives
03 January 2009 Pajamas Media
There are also strains being developed that grow with less water or that grow on salt-affected soils. It’s both sophisticated and ecologically beneficial!

Sugarcane, Corn Hybrid to be Tested in US
01 January 2009 Ethanol Producer Magazine
During the 2009 growing season, Targeted Growth Inc., a crop biotechnology company based in Seattle, Wash., will observe Sugarcorn, a hybrid plant that’s a cross between sugarcane and corn.