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Week of January 27th - February 2nd

Jan 27/Jan 28/Jan 29/Jan 30/Jan 31/Feb 1 /Feb 2




Posted on January 28, 2002

Communication from the Commission to the Council, The European Parliment, The Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, Life Sciences and Biotechnology - A Strategy for Europe, Commission of the European Communities, January 23, 2002. (167K)

China pushing biotech crops $100 million a year is spent, study says, The Sacramento Bee, January 25, 2002

Glyphosate Weed Killer Benefits Soil Fungus, Editors, Progressive Farmer, January 03, 2001

The Fight Over Mexico's GM Maize Contamination -- Contaminated Corn and Tainted Tortillas: Genetic Pollution in Mexico's Centre of Maize Diversity , News Release, The Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (formerly RAFI), January 23, 2002

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

U.S. Pressures Europe to Drop GMO Labeling Rules, ENS, January 16, 2002

Battles And Skirmishes In The Biotech Patent Arena, Information Systems for Biotechnology News Report, January 2002

GM Rice Watch Center in Japan has a website in English -- Citizens' Center for Monitoring Genetically Modified Rice

Posted on January 30, 2002

Leaving AgBioTech InfoNet Agricultural Biotechnology And Industry Structure, in AgBioForum, Volume 4, No. 2, 2001

Sierra Club Policy on Biotechnology: Release and Commercialization of Genetically Engineered Organisms (GEOs)

Fitness of Hybrids Between Weedy and Cultivated Radish: Implications, Ecological Applications: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 934-943,2001

"Biotechnology, GMOs, ethics and food production" presented at the European Media Seminar on Global Food Security, Stockholm, 14-16 October 2001

Keynote address on GMOs by FAO Assistant-Director General Louise Fresco, Assistant-Director General, FAO Agriculture Department gave the keynote address to a conference on "Crop and Forest Biotechnology for the Future", Falkenberg, Sweden, 16-18 September 2001

Leaving AgBioTech InfoNet Intellectual Property and the Knowledge Gap, Oxfam Policy Paper, AgBioForum, December 2001

Technical Paper Diversity of bacterial communities in the rhizosphere and root interior of field-grown genetically modified Brassica napus -- ABSTRACT, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Vol. 38 (1) (2001) pp. 1-9