FAO launches Russian language website
27 November 2007
A Russian language version of its biotechnology website has been launched by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), in collaboration with its Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia.

Monsanto confident over GM venture
27 November 2007
Monsanto expresses satisfaction over its current GM portfolio and confidence over the success of its R&D pipelines at a recent presentation given to investors this month.

GM mushrooms as drug biofactories
26 November 2007
GM mushrooms that contain human vaccines are being developed by researchers from Penn State University (Pennsylvania) and US mushroom biotechnology company, Agarigen (North Carolina).

Monsanto upgrades and expands in Iowa
19 November 2007
Monsanto is to invest more than $230 million in upgrading and expanding the company’s research and development facilities in Iowa, where Monsanto operates 13 facilities.

Research into high-nutrition rice at Purdue University
19 November 2007
Genes that regulate the transport of nutrients within rice plants are being researched by a team from Purdue University, Indiana, US.

Collaboration for high-throughput genotyping
19 November 2007
The US biotechnology company, Applied Biosystems (Foster City, California), is to collaborate with the research technology firm, BioTrove (Woburn, Massachusetts), to commercialise an analysis platform for high-throughput genotyping applications

DuPont, Evogene in drought tolerance effort
14 November 2007
DuPont’s subsidiary, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, and the Israeli research company, Evogene (Rehovat) are to collaborate on drought tolerance in maize and soybeans.

BASF to develop nutritional oil crops
14 November 2007
BASF Plant Science is to actively target crops with higher nutritional values, the company announced at its Metanomics plant in Berlin, Germany last month.

BASF’s GM blight-resistant potatoes
14 November 2007
BASF Plant Science is to actively target crops with higher nutritional values, the company announced at its Metanomics plant in Berlin, Germany last month.

Monsanto trials drought-resistant maize
14 November 2007
Trials for drought-resistant maize are to begin soon in South Africa, says Monsanto, which has invested R120 million (US$17.8 million) in the project.

Bayer & Cellectis collaborate on gene technology
14 November 2007
Bayer CropScience and the French genomics company, Cellectis (Paris), are using Meganuclease technology to develop new crops.

BASF confident over GM venture
07 November 2007
“Not just high-tech, but the highest tech”. This was how Peter Oakley, Member of the Board of Executive Directors at BASF, described agricultural biotechnology at a press conference held at BASF Plant Science’s Metanomics plant in Berlin on 24th October.

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