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 …
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Does 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 …
Continue readingGMO Safety and LL601 Rice
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson LL601, the genetically engineered rice variety that has contaminated the US rice supply, is safe. The USDA says so. The UK Food Standards Agency says so. The US Food and …
Continue readingContaminated Rice Cultivar Banned in Arkansas
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson As part of an ongoing US effort to purge contaminating transgenic traits from rice varieties, the state plant board of Arkansas has banned the BASF rice variety Clearfield 131. Clearfield …
Continue readingConflicts of Interest: In Agriculture too?
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson Failure to declare a conflict of interest, as Lester Crawford has been reminded (see news item), is a federal offence for United States Government employees, punishable by a prison term. …
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