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Week of February 20th - February 26th

Feb. 20/Feb. 21/Feb. 22/Feb. 23/Feb. 24/Feb. 25/Feb. 26


Posted on February 23, 2000
Corn Growers Complete Survey on Farmer Planting Intentions for Upcoming Growing Season, News Release from the American Corn Growers Association, February 21, 2000

Comparison of Weed Management Strategies in Roundup Ready Corn, J.A. Ferrell and W.W. Witt, Kentucky

Baby Steps: Conditions Imposed for Crop Year 2000 on Farmers Planting Bt-Transgenic Corn for ECB Control, Charles Benbrook, January 2000




Posted on February 24, 2000
Reaping the Plant Gene Harvest, Science, 287:412-414, January 21, 2000.

Science in Response to Basic Human Needs, Science, 287:425, January 21, 2000.

Some Like It Hot, Discussion of heat tolerance in transgenic plants,Science, 287:435-437, January 21, 2000

Trienoic Fatty Acids and Plant Tolerance of High Temperature, Science, 287:476-479, January 21, 2000.

The Green Revolution Strikes Gold, Science, 287:241-243, January 14, 2000.

Engineering the Provitamin A (ß-Carotene) Biosynthetic Pathway into (Carotenoid-Free) Rice Endosperm, Science, 287:303-305, January 14, 2000.

This should not be the end for terminator technology in GM crops, Nature 402:457, December 2,1999.

Much food, many problems, Nature, 402:231-232, November 18, 1999.

Fear of Biotechnology: Hysteria or Due Caution?, Science, 286:1089, November 5, 1999.

Enzymes of evolutionary change, a discussion of genetic diversity and DNA mutases, Nature, 401:866-869, October 20, 1999.

Genetic engineering of crops as potential source of genetic hazard in the human diet, Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology And Environmental Mutagenis, 443(1-2):223-234, July 15,1999

Promiscuity in transgenic plants, Scientific Correspondence on horizontal gene flow in transgenic brassica, Nature, 395:25, September 3, 1998.

Resistance to the herbicide glyphosate, Nature 395: 25-27, September 3, 1998.


Posted on February 25, 2000
Is Monsanto's Biotech Worth Less Than a Hill of Beans?, Fortune, Vol. 141, No. 4, February 21, 2000

Terminator 2 Years Later: Suicide Seeds on the Fast Track, RAFI Communique, February-March, 2000

Candidate 'Gene Silencers' Found, Science, 286(5441):886, October 29, 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.

A viral suppressor of gene silencing in plants, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95(22):13079-13084, October 27, 1998.

CpG methylation, chromatin structure and gene silencing: a three-way connection, The EMBO Journal, 17:4905-4908, 1998.

Epigenetic transcriptional silencing and 5-azacytidine-mediated reactivation of a complex transgene in rice, Plant Physiology, 115:361-373, 1997.

Flavonoid genes in petunia: addition of a limited number of gene copies may lead to a suppression of gene expression, The Plant Cell, 2:291-299,1990.









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