Bio-Tech Info - Disease Resistance

   General Discussion and Opinions
   Virus Resistance
   Plant Pathogens
   Ecological Risks

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General Discussion and Opinions

"They Have the Biotechnology, But it May be Running out of Control, and the US is Starting to Worry", New Scientist, August, 1997

    Virus Resistance

Field Evaluation of Transgenic and Classical Sources of Wheat streak mosaic virus Resistance (ABSTRACT), Crop Science 42:105-110 (2002)

Wheat Future in in Bio-Tech Not GM - Breeder, Farmers Weekly, February 25, 2000

A history of papaya virus problems, Allison Brown, Posted to SANET November 27, 2000

Papaya Story Continued, Mary-Howell Martens, Posted to SANET November 27, 2000

Geminiviruses Emerge as Serious Crop Threat, Science, 286:1835, December 3, 1999.

Integration of multiple repeats of geminiviral DNA into the nuclear genome of tobacco during evolution, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,93(2):759-764, January 23, 1996.

Risks associated with virus resistant transgenic plants as identified by Monsanto and USDA scientists, National Law Part Wessex (UK) publication, 1999.
Virus on virus infects bacterium, Nature 399:312-313, May 27, 1999. (PDF 190 K)

Field Testing for Virus Resistance and Agronomic Performance in Transgenic Plants, (exerpts) Molecular Biotechnology, Volume 12, 1999.

Virus resistance and gene silencing in plants can be induced by simultaneous expression of sense and antisense RNA, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95(23):13959-13964, November 10, 1998.

Weeds May Acquire Virus Resistance from GM Crops, The Times (London), September 9, 1998

    Plant Pathogens

Messenger (harpin), Ag BioView Post, from Steven V. Beer , July 2, 2001

Genetically Modified Rice Tests Alarm Philippine Farmers, Michael Bengwayan, August 17, 2000

Increased baculovirus susceptibility of armyworm larvae feeding on transgenic rice plants expressing an entomopoxvirus gene, Nature Biotechnology, 17:1122-1124, November 1999.

Uncontrolled Release of Harmful Microorganisms, Science, June 4, 1999
Genetically engineered broad-spectrum disease resistance in tomato, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95:10300-10305, August 1998.
Genetic basis in plants for interactions with disease-suppressive bacteria, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 96(9):4786-4790, April 27, 1998.
Receipt of a Notification to Conduct Small-Scale Field Testing of a Genetically Engineered Microbial Pesticide, EPA Notice, Federal Register 62(244):66624-66625, December 19, 1997.
Safety of Microorganisms Intended for Pest and Plant Disease Control: A Framework for Scientific Evaluation, Biological Control 7:333-351, 1996.
Molecular mechanisms of defense by rhizobacteria against root disease, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 92:4197-4201, May 1995.

Role of phenazine antibiotic from Pseudomonas fluoresecens in biological control of Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici, Journal of Bacteriology 170(8):3499-3508, August, 1988.
Production of the antibiotic Phenazine-1-Carboxylic acid by fluorescent Pseudomonas species in the rhizosphere of wheat, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 56(4):908-912, 1990.
Contribution of phenazine antibiotic biosynthesis to the ecological competence of fluorescent pseudomonads in soil habitats, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 58(8):2616-2624, August 1992.
Conservation of the 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol biosynthesis locus among fluorescent Pseudomonas strains from diverse geographic locations, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 62(2):552-563, February 1996.

    Ecological Risks
International Workshop on the Ecological Impacts of Transgenic Crops (March 2-4 ,2000), executive summary by Miguel A. Altieri of the University of California, Berkeley. (PDF 40 KB)

Evidence that a plant virus switched hosts to infect a vertebrate and then recombined with a vertebrate-infecting virus, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 96(14):8022-8027, July 6, 1999.

Virus on virus infects bacterium, Nature 399:312-313, May 27, 1999. (PDF 190 K)

Survival, Persistence, Transfer- An Update on Current Knowledge on GMOs and the Fate of their Recombinant DNA, Beatrix Tappeser et al. for the Institute for Applied Ecology, May 1998. (PDF 117 K)

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