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General Discussion
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General Discussion
Press/News/Editorials
- GM Rice Watch Center in Japan has a website in English --
Citizens' Center for Monitoring Genetically Modified Rice
- JASMINE RICE: US genetics expert says he will not seek patent,
The Bangkok Post, November 8, 2001
- IRRI Statement, News About Rice and People, March 23, 2001
- The Great Yellow Hype, The New York
Times Magazine, March 4, 2001
- Letter to The Independent (London) February 23, 2001, "No Need for GM
Rice" by James Bruges
- Gene-Altered Rice, Letter to the Editor from Marion
Nestle, New York Times, December 19, 2000
- Golden grains of hope: A life-saving, genetically altered rice gets
stuck in politics, Editorial, Sacramento BEE Sacramento, Calif.
November 30, 2000
- Golden Rice in a Grenade-Proof
Greenhouse, New York Times, November 21, 2000
- Rice Science That Can Freely Serve the Poor, IRRI Press release,
October 13, 2000
- Rice Research and Biotechnology, Statement from Director
General of IRRI
- Do the Poor Get Unproven GM Rice While AstraZeneca Gets the Gold?,
News from RAFI, 6/20/2000
- Deal offers free GM rice to poor farmers while rich must pay,
Financial Times (London), May 16, 2000
- Golden Rice and Superbugs,
Washington Post, Page A18, Saturday, January 22, 2000.
Science and Research
- "Vitamin A Deficiency Disorders: Origins of the Problem and Approaches to
Its Control", by Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS, Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2001
- Golden Rice and Beyond, Ingo Potrykus, Plant Physiol, March 2001,
Vol. 125, pp. 1157-1161
- Monsanto Adds Support For Golden Rice;
Opens Its Genome Sequence Data To Worldwide Research Community
- Rice Genome Gets a Boost; Private sequencing effort
yields rough draft for the public, The Scientist 14[9]:1,
May 1, 2000
- Scientists achieve major breakthrough in rice;
data to be shared with Worldwide research community,
Monsanto Press Release, April 4, 2000.
- The Sisters of Nutrition, a convent in the Phillipines is the
site of the first human trials of Provitamin A transgenic rice varities,
News about Rice and People, April 3, 2000.
- Genetically Engineered Vitamin
'A' Rice: A Blind Approach to Blindness Prevention, Dr.Vandana Shiva,
14 Feb 2000.
- New Genes Boost Rice Nutrients, Science
285: 994-995, August 13, 1999.
Why Research on
Breeding For Nutritionally-Enhanced Crops is Vital, Statement from the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington,
D.C., February 24, 2000
Food Security Issues
- Scientists achieve major breakthrough in rice;
data to be shared with Worldwide research community,
Monsanto Press Release, April 4, 2000.
- Filling the bowl: For billions worldwide, a modified grain could
end the lean times, New Scientist, April 1, 2000.
- Genetically Engineered Vitamin
'A' Rice: A Blind Approach to Blindness Prevention, Dr.Vandana Shiva,
14 Feb 2000.
- Rice Expert Says Asia Still Risks Famine,
Press Release, IRRI, December 1999
- Engineering Solutions to
Malnutrition, GRAIN, March 2000
Nutritional Value
- Golden Rice: What Role Could It Play In Alleviation of Vitamin A
Deficiency?, 2002 Food Policy. 27. 5/6. 541 - 560
- Genetically Engineered "Golden"
Rice is Unlikely to Overcome Vitamin
A Deficiency, Letter to the editor in the Journal of the American
Dietetic Association, 2001;101 (March):289-290
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Response to 'Genetially Engineered 'Golden Rice' Unlikely to
Overcome Vitamin A Deficiency' by Ingo Potrykus, March 21, 2001
- Bioengineered rice loses glow as vitamin A source,
Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, March 4, 2001
- Genetically Engineered Vitamin
'A' Rice: A Blind Approach to Blindness Prevention, Dr.Vandana Shiva,
14 Feb 2000.
Industry
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'Mirage' of GM's golden promise, Alex Kirby, BBC News Online environment correspondent,
February 2004
By Chris
Wescott, December 2001
Engineering the Provitamin A (ß-Carotene)
Biosynthetic Pathway into (Carotenoid-Free) Rice Endosperm, Science,
287:303-305, January 14, 2000. 