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 readingUS Beef may cause Infertility in Males: A Hormone Link?
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson Pregnant women who eat beef from cattle treated with growth-promoting hormones may be damaging the future fertility of their unborn sons. New findings suggest that hormones widely given to American …
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 readingUnapproved Transgene Contaminates US Rice Supply
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson Transgene escape has again become a major biosafety and financial issue. On 18 August the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) revealed that non-transgenic long grain rice in the US was …
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