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Sex Cells Genes of Plants Imprinted Before Fertilisation
July 2006 Plant genes share the same mechanism found in mammals in the way they are marked or ‘imprinted’ to switch on or off depending on their sex, just befor...
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Danforth Center Spearheads Effort To Sequence Cassava
July 2006 The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) recently announced that it selected a proposal organized by the Donald Danforth Plant S...
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Anti-GM Motion Defeated in Kenya
July 2006 Kenyan parliamentarians have voted overwhelmingly to reject a motion seeking to ban GMOs from the country.
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Samir Kaul Becomes General Partner for Khosla Ventures
July 2006 Khosla Ventures has announced the addition of Samir Kaul as general partner. Kaul is joining founder Vinod Khosla and general partner David Weiden.
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EC Wrong To Conceal GMO Documents, Says Ombudsman
July 2006 The European Commission has been ruled guilty of "maladministration" after preventing access to Friends of the Earth Europe to documents relating to t...
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NSW Farmers' Association Supports Commercial Release of GM Crops
July 2006 The New South Wales Farmers' Association has voted to support the commercial release of Genetically Modified (GM) crops following a vote at the Annual...
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SemBioSys Achieves Insulin Target Production in Safflower
July 2006 SemBioSys Genetics Inc. has achieved its commercial target levels of human insulin (insulin) accumulation in safflower with 1.2% of total seed protein...
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CAST Paper Examines Safety of Consuming Foods From GM-Fed Animals
July 2006 The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) is releasing a new Issue Paper, Safety of Meat, Milk, and Eggs from Animals Fed Crops Deriv...
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Performance Plants Licences YPT to Scotts Miracle-Gro
July 2006 Scotts Miracle-Gro has confirmed an exclusive worldwide license agreement for the development and commercialization of Performance Plants’ Yield Prot...
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California Wild Radish Caused Extinction of Parents
July 2006 UC Riverside scientists studying the genetic makeup of wild radishes in California have determined that the California wild radish is descended from h...
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