Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson Note: An excellent complementary piece, from one of the IAASTD authors, is: The IAASTD report and some of its fallout – a personal note By Dr. Angelika Hilbeck, ETH Zurich, …
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Let the World Learn From Our Experience with GMOs
E. Ann Clark, University of Guelph, Canada E. Ann Clark is an Associate Professor in the department of Plant Agriculture at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. She wrote this piece in response to a …
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Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson The case of Irina Ermakova Quite likely it surprised regular readers of Nature Biotechnology that for the September (2007) issue their favoured journal had invented a new article format specifically …
Continue readingRethinking the Risks of Viral Transgenes in Plants
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson Part I: Transcomplementation and its implications Today marks the publication, in the journal Molecular Plant Pathology, of the Bioscience Resource Project’s newest biosafety review: Transcomplementation and synergism: implications for virus-resistant …
Continue readingDoes the Bio-Economy Add Up?
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson Experts do not have an entirely unblemished record of predicting the future of agriculture. In the 1950s it was envisioned that farms would be irrigated with water from icecaps that …
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