Theme Index: Plant related

Theme: Plants

• Weeds: An ordinary miracle
• Canola: 'Superweeds'
• plant-killing GM bacteria
• New US 'mystery' corn viruses – is GM the prime suspect?
• Two New Corn Viruses Discovered
• codominant Bt resistance of pink bollworm in cotton
• RR soybeans and Yellowleaf mystery
• Scientist points out possibility of Roundup Ready wheat crossing with goatgrass weed
• Study points to problems with genetically engineered cotton
• Monsanto testing GM wheat
• The Killing Fields – Terminator Crops at Large
• Roundup Ready Soybean Yield Gap Closing
• Aussie scientists stumble across the Doomsday Bug
• Study points to Problems with GE Cotton
• Human Gene For Potato Multiherbicide Tolerance
• several human gens for more herbicide tolerance
• Mouse Gene in Corn
• Herbicide-resistant Turfgrass Alert
• Early resistance of Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) to Bt
• Host-plant diversity of the European corn borer Ostrinia nubilalis:
• Related Conventional and Transgenic Cotton Cultivars
• GE Low Browning Apples
• GM trees raise new crop of concerns
• German scientists discover soil ecology alterations by GE potatoes
• GM cross-pollination creates more herbicide-resistant plants
• International Undertaking on Plant Genetic Resources
• The Lurid Soil Bacterium Klebsiella planticola
• Learning How To Amplify Genes
• Monsanto plant defensins
• Substantial Equivalence Not At All
• Yield problems with RR soybeans under dry conditions
• Sierra Club FINAL comments to EPA on StarLink (excellent summary)
• Sierra Club TECHNICAL comments to EPA on StarLink (excellent summary)
• Sierra Club Questions on the Assessment of Scientific Information (excellent summary)
• Sierra Club REFERENCES to comments to EPA on StarLink (excellent summary)
• Sheep growth accelerated by GE lupins
• Should you fear franken-corn?
• US: StarLink protein appears in new corn seed
• Planned Obsolescence And Plant Breeding
• BABA a natural chemical to fight plant disease
• Melumber fruit (melon and cucumber hybrid) made the old way
• GE cotton – a health risk?
• Inside information about Starlink
• Gene Surgery For Antibiotic Resistance Genes
• backgroundinfo on resistance to Cry1F and on Starlink
• GE field tests and wierd science
• A Potential Alternative to GM
• A drug to change the genes
• Concerns over GE Wheat and Cross-Polination
• Stray genes highlight superweed danger
• New GM crops – Farmer dependency and chemical sales
• Agribusiness giant in new GM seeds threat
• Molecular Barrier to lock out GE and foreign genes
• Stray genes highlight superweed danger
• Dutch study: Starlink protein stimulated antibodies in lab rats
• "Buried Data in Monsanto's Study on Roundup Ready Soybeans"
• Disabling plants' immune system: Real genetically modified madness!!
• BIOWATCH: Bt & Roundup cotton linked to gonorrhea – UK Govt report
• Chicken genes in apples, flounder genes in strawberries
• New GMOs From Novartis
• GM sugar not a sweet prospect.
• GE bacteria being released into US soils?
• Intoxicating bacterium kills plants
• GE Legume inoculant - watch out!
• medical use of cannabis
• great news from Hawaii: GE papaya has short shelf life
• Attack of the Uber Tomatoes
• GM papaya homepage
• GM sweet potato homepage
• Terminator is Back
• Biotech Genes on the Move
• Stink Bugs
• Rogue DNA
• Plants rendered herbicide-susceptible by cauliflower mosaic virus-elicited suppression of a 35S promoter-regulated transgene
• New York Times: Simple Method Found to Vastly Increase Crop Yields
• Monarch Butterfly on Bt corn
• "Barnase or terminator by any other still stinks"
• Novartis pins hopes for GM seeds on new marker system
• We told them so! The CaMV promoter thinks it is still a virus!
• USDA on its terminator
• GM crops may eliminate birds
• 'Frankengrass' creates multi-coloured lawns
• Herbicide Resistance is Out of Control say Canola Farmers
• Soya alert over cancer and brain damage link
• Day of GM triffid dawns
• Genetically Modified Rice Tests Worry Philippine Farmers
• Neem tree patents: an immodest victory
• Analysis: – GM Sugar Delay Raises Doubts On Prospects
• Suburban Genetics: Scientists Searching for a Perfect Lawn
• GM crops are pests, Tasmania declares
• Review on Non-Target Organisms and Transgenic Bt Plants
• Scientists Publish Study on the Safety and Nutritional Value of Monsanto's Biotech Corn
• GM crops face destruction in trials blunder
• India fights US basmati rice patent
• High vitamin A sweet potato for Africa developed
• BIOWATCH: GM Seeds Fiasco. The Dig-up Begins
• Keep SA Soy GE-Free - Conference June 21/22 2000
• Agrobacterium Gene Transfer to Plants
• Ecological Impact of Transgenics
• Vitamin A in Tomato
• Avadin in Corn Kills Storage Insects
• metallothionein gene from mouse in soil bacteria
• New Scientist: Apocalypse When
• Resistance to Bt noted in laboratories and cotton weevils
• GM tomatoes 'fight cancer'
• Terminator Technology: The Threat to World Food Security
• Novartis's New Marker-Gene System Targets Genetically Modified Crops
• Top Cross-breeders need funding
• Pesticides on the Rise in China
• CaMV promoter is dangerous
• Herbicide drift
• Transgenic Rice: A Blind Approach
• Terminator is Back
• GE Gene Transfer in Gut of Bees
• Biotech soybeans yield 6-11% less than conventional
• Insect Product Causes Cancers in Plants
• Anti-greenie on our Side: Risk of escaped GM food genes
• GMOs May Pose New Risk to Endangered Plants, Animals
• Frankentree listserver
• US Patent on Neem Revoked
• Risk of escaped GM food genes
• New GE internet links
• GM pollen found in honey
• Major Victory Against Bio-piracy: Neem Tree Patent
• Insect Resistance and the Future of Bt Transgenic Plants
• A pest might make a comeback thanks to engineered "weeds"
• Bt found to reduce toxin in corn
• does GE really reduce toxin in corn? does it matter?
• Mega-Artichokes to Power Homes?
• Re: B-GE:Mega-Artichokes to Power Homes?
• the "new" GM: using chimeric RNA/DNA
• Basmati Rice: legal petition filed against biopiracy
• Superweeds Resist Three herbicides
• GE Canola Yields Down
• Veggie with rat gene
• Province Ends Research To Keep Sliced Apples From Turning Brown
• One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four GE Potato -- Gone!!!
• correction on Bt
• General references and links- Biotech & Forestry
• Unintended gene silencing in GM crops
• New genes protect trees from insects, disease
• PANUPS: Resource Pointer #234 (Ag. Chemicals)
• Organic agriculture: false claims of starvation
• Organic Cropland Doubled in 1990s (US)
• GM tree in North America
• GM tree in Europe
• Botany vs Biotechnology
• Monsanto Rice Puding
• Ontario Soybean Growers Calling for Fair Pricing on Roundup Ready(TM) Soybean Seed
• Monsanto: Scientists Achieve Major Breakthrough in Rice
• De-toxification: Phytoremediation Market Report and Industry Directory
• Insect Population Control using a Dominant, Repressible Lethal Genetic System
• a magical tree: Moringa
• Terminator and Traitor Technologies Target Global Seed and Food Supply
• Ontario Farmers Slash their Use of Insecticides
• "Glyphosate (Round-Up) a Few Useful References"
• potato -all we need to eat
• Bee-t cotton
• Virus genes: stinking smut
• Bt resistance management
• Genetic Engineering of Trees
• Genetic Cranberries: UW Professor Explores the Possibilities
• Report on the Dispersal of Maize Pollen
• New terminator patent: US5723765: Control of plant gene expression
• patent US5977441: Control of plant gene expression
• Terminator 2 Years Later: Suicide Seeds on the Fast Track
• Hawaii: Planned invasion of biotech trees
• Aventis sues Monsanto over cotton patents
• new Bt corn with no refuge
• Monsanto's Soy is Cracking Up
• New Plant Viruses
• Government Deal on Biotech Spuds
• Info re Organically vs Conventionally Grown Food
• Re: B-GE: Chinese scientists ready to test genetically modified rice
• Genetically Engineered Tree Alert
• Plants: Tandem genes threaten biodiversity
• Tandem constructs for superweed prevention
• Tandem Constructions
• Japan heads for the laboratory in rice war
• Russian scientists test first domestic GM potato
• Biowatch: Triple-resistant Canola Weeds Found In Alta
• GM Potatoes on Hold in US.
• A Sweeter Deal than Expected from Transgenic Sugar Beets
• Re: mercury GE plants
• Yellow Rice and Beta Carotene
• GM mucous-corn
• Engineered Crops Face Barren Season
• Agriculture Canada Study questions higher-yield theory on genetically modified canola
• US-MExico Legal Battle Erupts over Patented "Enola" Bean
• New EPA Restrictions on Bt Corn!
• New Restrictions on Biotech Corn
• Inheritance of Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Toxin (Dipel ES) in the European Corn Borer
• Yellow Rice: Do Not Introduce These Crops, please
• GM pollen gaps slated
• The Nature of the Machine
• Can A Virus Infect Plants And Animals?
• Trouble in the Garden
• Transposons and Endogenous Virus in Plant Chromosomes
• Update on RiceTec Basmati patent – from RAFI
• Nuclear Genes In Plants
• First GM tolerance transfer is feared in Canadian OSR
• Despite Protestes, A Few Newbies Try To Invent Next Generation Plants
• Viruses That Jump From Olants To Animals
• Biodiversity Threatened
• Terminator Terminated
• New Scientist: Keep that spray
• How do you get DNA into a plant? Blow a hole in it
• Dr. Pusztai: Genetically Manipulated Plants Used for Food
• Cotton-Seed Firm's Stock Drops on Market Concern of Monsanto Deal
• Monsanto's Business Practice – Percy Schmeiser speaks out
• Bt cotton: open letter from Thailand
• GE Soya beans ... what's in there?
• Biotech Soybeans Deficient
• Seed varieties disappearing
• Two Mindsets, Two Visions of Sustainable Agriculture
• U.S. researchers find way to change plant genes
• More Bt and RR Problems
• Jimmy Carter Promotes New Plant Science Center
• Non-sugar Sweetener Stevia
• GE mustard on the horizon, from Monsanto
• Dominant mutants to Bt resistance in corn borer
• Gene-Altered Corn May Kill Monarchs
• Gene-Altered Corn May Kill Monarchs
• Corn Refuge Spreads Dominant Bt Mutants
• Cotton: Monsanto Stake In $150 Million Cotton Deal In Zimbabwe Unclear
• Terminator Technology: Monsanto Vows to Delay Commercialisation
• Terminator 1998's Most Under-reported News
• Forestry: Monsanto Enters $60 Million GE Forestry Deal
• GM pests bite back
• Corn Refuge Spreads Dominant Bt Mutants
• Monsanto Suspends Terminator Seeds Marketing
• Super seeds: Growing controversy
• Amylopectin Project (Transgenic Potatoes) gets heavy blow.
• Canola: No Literature, No Testing – No allergies?
• Genetically Engineered Lawns
• US Corn Grower's being warned
• Seed Companies Submit Plan to Keep Bt Corn's Punch
• Rogue genes cross to weeds
• "Gone with the Wind" [rapeseed] New Scientist 17Apr99
• Complicating Canola
• Leading geneticist urges GM caution
• Vegetables May Not Be So Good for You
• Bt lawsuit update
• Bt-crop Refuges Fail to Meet Experts' Standards (posted April 1999)
• Industry--small Steps Towards Refuges In Bt Corn (posted April 1999)
• Biotechnology may Turn Farms into 'Pharmaceutical' Delivery Systems
• SOUTH AFRICA: Genetically Engineered Crops Ready For Harvest
• (NZ) Monsanto & Co in Timber deals.
• Time of India Articles
• Growers' Group to Work With USDA Seed Banks
• Australia Cashes In on Demand for non-GE Canola
• Transgenic Crops More Likely to Cross-Pollinate
• GE Bacterium kills plants
• Ecological Damage from Bt Toxins in Soil
• Use of Altered Seed in Area Crops Rising
• Next phase of biotech
• Mutant pollen from the Continent could infect British crops
• Terminator's Inventor – Dr. Mel Oliver
• 'Frankenstein' drives demand for organics
• Monsanto Targets Contract Production of Drugs in Plants
• Nature: Organic vs. Chemical Agriculture
• One Potato, New Potato
• TRAITOR TECHNOLOGY: "Damaged Goods" from the Gene Giants
• Super-viruses threat to farms
• Altered Crops Will Get Safety Review
• Canada Approved Genetically Modified Canola Tolerant to an Herbicide Causing Birth Defects
• NZ: Quote from Professor R B Elliot
• Low yielding GM-beet and rape in UK
• Low-Yielding Bt cotton in Arkansas
• South Africa produces first gene-modified maize
• Stop GM Food – Stray seeds land farmer in court
• Farmers Finding no More Fat to Cut in Cotton Fields
• Why soya is a hidden destroyer
• Terminator Gene Trips Alarms
• Texmati Boycott
• Mimicking Nature To Grow More
• Learning from a lifetime of experience
• Superbugs' Possible From Genetically Modified Food
• Mexican Billionaire Controls Seed Sales Amid Rush to Create New Strains
• The ladybird, an agricultural ally whose breeding potential may be reduced by GM crops
• Arabidopsis – A Model Plant Genome
• Seeds of Discord – Monsanto in Canada
• Storm as genetically modified salad is approved
• Mexican Vegetable King Controls 40 % of Supermarket Sales in the US
• U.S. corn growers, seed firms agree BT corn rules
• Terminator Technology Vital For Farmers' Interests'
• Time Magazine article: The Suicide Seeds
• Can we really stomach GM foods?
• Do We Need Transgenic Crops?
• More scientific studies, this one on plant-soil interaction
• Planting Scheme for Engineered Corn Raises Eyebrows
• Old-fashioned corn to resist super bugs
• A Virus Promoter Used in the Majority of Genetically Engineered Crops
• 35S Promoter (CaMV) in Calgene's Flavr Savr Tomato Creates Hazard
• Spread Of Type I Introns In Plants
• Low Yielding Biotech Cotton
• EU Rejects Biotech Potato
• Links re British GE-Potato
• Q&A about Aromatic Amines
• Bt and its effects
• Facts about Bacillus thuringiensis (B.t.)
• More work needed on GMHT crops.
• GE Canola SeedMeal
• World recoils at Monsanto's brave new crops
• GMO potatoes deregulated by USDA – that means, its not GMO anymore?
• Blow to Hopes for Use of Genetically Altered Seed
• Do we Want our Spuds Spiced with Toad Genes ?
• Horizontal Gene Transfer – New Evidence
• US Farmers Need Support To Decide Organic Or Not
• Chinese Scientists Transplant Fish Genes into Beet
• China Engineers Super Tomato With Fish Genes
• War On Killer Seed
• Brave New Rose
• Strange Fruit
• Ineligible potatoes
• Modified Potato is Taken off the Menu
• Canola Crossbreeds Create Tough Weed Problem
• Resistant Canola Expected
• UK Biotech/Moratorium May Render Varieties Obsolete
• Low-Yielding Bt cotton in Arkansas
• EU committee rejects Dutch gene-altered potato
• Beware of Canadian GE Canola
• Scientific Paper on Bt and Refuge
• From Major Hallett to Biological Warfare on Farmers Terminator Technology
• 'Terminator Technology' – One Step Too Far?
• New Patent Aims To Prevent Farmers From Saving Seed
• Field Testing Dangerous Genetically Engineered Crops in Scotland
• New Trait Surfaces in Altered Plant
• Research: UK College Refuses To Return Fungi
• Expression of the human milk protein beta-casein in transgenic potato plants.
• Add A Toxin To Potatoes And It's No Surprise They're Bad News
• Letters: Natural Defence
• Plants Without Seeds Challenge Historic Farming Practices
• Don't Assume Your Bt is broken Because Borers Are Biting
• Why Refuge Will Not Work to Reduce Bt Resistance
• Genetic Engineering on Trees
• Forest Fragmentation Creating Genetic Bottleneck
• Bees 'witnesses' In Row Over Genetic Food
• Test Tube Trees Could Be Boost Timber Industry
• Garbling the Seeds of the Future
• Alert on gene crop threat to wildlife
• Genetic Engineering Can Create Aggressive Plants
• Disappointing Biotech Crops
• Genetics of Terminator
• Some New Genetic Plumbing Tools
• The Terminator (“Technology Protection System”)Patent US patent 5,723,765
• "Terminator" technology leads to widespread chemical pollution
• Sterilizing Seeds
• Paris to decide on gene maize imports after debate
• U.S. warns EU of big trade row over genetic corn
• China Engineers Super Tomato With Fish Genes
• UK: Organic Grower Seeks Ban On 'mutant' Maize.
• GE Maize Kills Beneficial Insects
• Disappointing Biotech Crops
• Japan develops Cloned Eucalyptus Trees for Paper Production
• List of GM free soya suppliers USA, Canada, Netherlands, UK
• US Patent Stops Farmers From Collecting Seeds
• A Letter To An Organic Farmer by Prof. J. Cummins
• GE Crops Growing Near You
• 'Terminator' Seeds Threaten A Barren Future For Farmers
• Transgenic Crops: GMO Crop Surface To Double In 1998
• EU to weigh approval for new gene maize, rapeseed
• US plans would banish genuine organic produce
• USDA's Definition of Organic: Chock-full of natural nonsense
• Biotech Bacteria Highlights Limitations of Risk Assessment
• Will GE crops deliver benefits to farmers? (Quotes of Prominent People)
• Potatoes made to carry cholera vaccine
• Weeds showing herbicide resistance
• Brazil's Illegal GE Soy
• Australia: International Biopiracy Allegations Refuted
• Biopiracy of Indian chickpeas in Australia
• Battle to protect plant patents after basmati rice 'hijack'
• New strain of genetically altered wheat bred in China
• Glufosinate is sold under the names Basta, Finale and Liberty
• Gene Transfer between Canola and related weeds (scientific paper)
• New tomato keeps men healthy
• Herbicide Resistance Transferred to Weeds
• Biotechnology and the Third World, by Richard Wolfson, PhD
  
• Genetically Decaffeinated Coffee
• COMING SOON: Wider Selection of GE Seedless Fruit
• Testing for Genetic Manipulation
• Cenex Land O'Lakes to sell GE Rhizobium for alfalfa seed
• Genetically Manipulated Organisms and Sewer Sludge in Food
• Arms race on the crop fields (Spiegel 2/88)
• Brazil's Secret: Crazy Tobacco
• Can Pizza prevent cancer and ketchup cause heart risk?
• Urge EPA to Deny Tolerance for Bromoxynil on GE Cotton
• New study on the spread of genetically altered traits in plants
• Herbicide-resistant rape spreads its manipulation
• US government currently formulating national organic regulations.
• Re: Organic Food Rules
• Monsanto and Friends' Biotech Blunders and Disasters
• GE Cotton Used in Medicine Poses Threat
• Seeds of Discontent: Cotton Growers Say Strain Cuts Yields
• Monsanto's cotton gets the Mississippi blues
• Norway Rejects Release of GE Products
• Scientists Identify Gene to Force Flowering in Plants
• Growing Medicine on Trees
• Japan Rejects GE-Modified Tomato
• Giant Potato Produced in Germany
• Genetically Engineered Soya has Elevated Hormone Levels
• Problems with Herbicide Tolerant Cotton in U.S.
• The Danger of Virus-Resistant Crops
• Monsanto's Strategy
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accused
• Law suit against GE crops with BT filed
• Identifying Biotech Grains
• Summary of Concerns
• New GM Tomato
• US Chemical Giant Monsanto Wields Control
• Genetically Altered Food (USA Today)
• Biotechnology's Bounty (New York Times)
• Allergies to Transgenic Foods (New England Journal of Medicine)
• France bans GE Maize
• Friends of the Earth Europe
• Europe delays GE Maize
• GE Global Action Days 21 – 26 April 97
• Codex Alimentarius Meeting
• Europe consideres Import of GE Maize
• Australia / New Zealand Saftety Assessment Paper

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