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Week of February 27th - March 4th
Feb. 27/Feb. 28/Feb. 29/Mar. 1/Mar. 2/Mar. 3/Mar. 4
Posted on February 28, 2000
Suppression of gene silencing: A general strategy
used by diverse DNA and RNA viruses of plants, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
96(24):14147-14152, November 23, 1999.
Expression pattern and, surprisingly, gene length
shape codon usage in Caenorhabditis, Drosophila,
and Arabidopsis , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 96(8):4482-4487, April 13, 1999.
Strong host resistance targeted against a viral
suppressor of the plant gene silencing defence
mechanism, The EMBO Journal, 18:2683-2691, 1999.
Plant gene silencing regularized, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95:13349-13351, November 1998.
Transcriptional and Posttranscriptional Plant
Gene Silencing in Response to a Pathogen, Science, 279(5359):2113-2115, March 2, 1998.
Promoter activity associated with the intergenic
regions of banana bunchy top virus DNA-1 to -6 in transgenic tobacco and
banana cells, Journal of General Virology, 79:2301-2311, 1998.
Evolution of codon usage bias in Drosophila , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
94:7784-7790, July 1997.
A Similarity Between Viral Defense and Gene
Silencing in Plants, Science, 276(5318):1558-1560, June 6, 1997.
Consistent gene silencing in transgenic plants
expressing a replicating potato virus X RNA, The EMBO Journal, 16(12):3675-3684, 1997.
The movement proteins of cowpea mosaic virus and cauliflower mosaic
virus induce tubular structures in plant and insect cells, Journal of General Virology,
77:2857-2864, 1996.
Reduction of coproporphyrinogen oxidase level by
antisense RNA synthesis leads to deregulated gene
expression of plastid proteins and affects the oxidative
defense system, The EMBO Journal, 14:3712-320, 1995.
Possible involvement of cell fusion and viral recombination in generation
of human immunodeficiency virus variants that display dual resistance to
AZT and 3TC, Journal of General Virology, 76:2601-2605, 1995.
Variation in biological properties of cauliflower mosaic virus clones, Journal of General Virology,
75:3137-3145, 1994.
A member of the tomato Pto gene family confers
sensitivity to fenthion resulting in rapid cell death, The Plant Cell,6:1543-1552, 1994.
Roles of Selection and Recombination in the Evolution of Type I
Restriction-Modification Systems in Enterobacteria, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 89:9836-9840, 1992.
Gene Silencing in a Polyploid Homosporous Fern: Paleopolyploidy
Revisited, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 88:1602-1605, 1991.
Genomic homologous recombination in planta, The EMBO Journal, 10:1571-1578, 1991.
Binding of wheat and chicken high mobility group
chromosomal proteins to DNA and to wheat and
chicken mononucleosomes, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 265(17):9771-9777, June 1990.
Rate of gene silencing at duplicate loci: a theoretical
study and interpretation of data from tetraploid fishes, Genetics, 95:237-258, 1980.
Posted on March 1, 2000
Field tests on managing
resistance to Bt-resistant plants, Nature Biotechnology,
18:339-343, March, 2000.(PDF 449K)
Science, Precaution and Food Safety: How Can
We Do Better?, A discussion paper for the US Codex Delegation, Edward Groth III, Ph.D.,
February 2000 (PDF 132K)
Monitoring and Labeling for Genetically
Modified Products, Science, 287:431-432. January 21, 2000.
Are GMOs essential for effective sustainable agriculture in a hungry world?, Mark Griffiths, Environmental Spokesman of
the Natural Law Party (UK), January 12, 2000.
Europe lifts patent embargo on transgenic plants and
animals..., Nature 403:3, January 6, 2000.
...as US tightens up on 'speculative' claims, Nature, 403:3, January 6, 2000.
Natural Transformation of Acinetobacter sp. Strain
BD413 with Cell Lysates of Acinetobacter sp.,
Pseudomonas fluorescens, and Burkholderia cepacia
in Soil Microcosms, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 66(1):206-212, January 2000.
Defining the world's public property, A comprehensive discussion of patents and intellectual
property issues, Le Monde diplomatique, January, 2000.
Food Safety of GM Crops in Canada:
Toxicity and Allerginicity, E. Ann Clark, 2000.
Crops without profit: Britain is paying an extraordinary price for its
agriculture, New Scientist, December 18, 1999.
CONTROVERSY OF THE YEAR:
GM Foods Under Attack, Science, December 17, 1999.
Possible ecological risks of transgenic organism
release when transgenes affect mating success: Sexual selection and the Trojan gene hypothesis,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 96(24):13853-13856 November 23, 1999.
Relative Values: Crossing rice with its wild cousins works wonders, New Scientist, November 17, 1999.
Protein tags enhance GFP
folding in eukaryotic cells, Nature Biotechnology, 17:1046, November 1999.
On Your Markers: New ways of engineering plants could win over
sceptics, New Scientist, November 20, 1999.
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.
Fungi have sexual relations with other sorts, Wageningen International Studies Paper (Wisp'r), Issue 17 : 02, May 20, 1999.
Unpalatable truths, discussion of testing systems for food, New Scientist, 17 April 1999.
Monitoring field releases of genetically modified sugar
beets for persistence of transgenic plant DNA and
horizontal gene transfer, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 28(3):261-272, March 1, 1999.
Mass migration of a group I intron: Promiscuity
on a grand scale, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95:14003-14005, November 1998.
Explosive invasion of plant mitochondria by a
group I intron, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95:14244-14249, November 1998.
Transformation of Acinetobacter sp. Strain BD413
by Transgenic Sugar Beet DNA, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 64(4):1550-1554, April 1998.
Gene Technology and Gene Ecology of Infectious Diseases, Mae-Wan Ho's key paper on the role of
biotechnology in the spread of infecious diseases, Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease, 10:33-59, 1998.
Bacteria gone native vs. bacteria gone awry?: Plasmidic transfer and bacterial evolution,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 94: 5501-5503, May 1997.
Rhizobium gone native: Unexpected plasmid
stability of indigenous Rhizobium leguminosarum, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 94: 5483-5488, May 1997.
The Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ac toxin-induced
permeability change in Manduca sexta midgut brush border membrane vesicles proceeds by
more than one mechanism, Journal of Cell Science, 110:3099-3104, 1997.
Global Review of Commercialized Transgenic Crops: 1998, ISAAA Briefs, No. 8-99.
Posted on March 2, 2000
Message from Phil Bereano, UW re: IISD Analysis of Cartagena
Protocol
IISD Analysis of Cartagena
Protocol
Some Marine Biotechnology Web Sites, posted by
Bill Mott from: Seaweb.org
High-Yield Production of a Human Therapeutic
Protein in Tobacco Chloroplasts, (abstract), Nature Biotechnology, Volume 18,
Number 3: 333-338
Posted on March 3, 2000
GM crops and equivocal environmental benefits,
Nature Biotechnology, Commentary,Volume 18 Number 3 p 242,
March 2000
New Type of Gene Engineering Is Aimed at
Sidestepping Critics, Newly discovered genetic similarities
between rice and corn may open the door for a new kind of GE research,
The New York Times, February 29, 2000.
Consumer groups in Japan ask Australia and New Zealand farmers and
agribusiness to segregate GMO foods, MEDIA ALERT: Open letter to Farmers:
Codex NGO Forum in Japan, February 2000
Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue Organics Resolution, National Campaign
for Sustainable Agriculture, February 2000
Global Issues in Agricultural Research, Volume 1, Issue #2,
November 15, 1998 (pdf)
Posted on March 4, 2000
Biotech lobby got millions from Ottawa: Public cash used to
alter image, The Montreal Gazette, February 28, 2000.
Special Report on the Asilomar 25th Anniversary Symposium,
Proceedinga of the conference held February 2000 on
the anniversary of the historic 1975 Asilomar agreement to
examine the ethics of genetic engineering and human germline research, Techno-Eugenics Email List Newsletter
Number 6,
February 28, 2000.
The key to GM is its potential, both for harm and good, statement by British
Prime Minister Tony Blair acknowledging concerns about the safety of GMOs, February
27, 2000.
Haste Gave Private Sector Control Over Research: Government Gave Away Biotech
Farm, Winnipeg Free Press, February 24, 2000.
Germany bans Novartis bt corn in move to
protect public health, environment, Greenpeace
Press Release, February 16, 2000.
New biosafety treaty is a positive, though
imperfect, step; Article on the Cartagena Protocol, Ventura County Star, February 11, 2000.
Agricultural Biotechnology and the Poor,
report of CGIAR meeting at the World Bank in November, 1999.
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