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Week of April 8st - April 14th

April 8/April 9/April 10/April 11/April 12/April 13/April 14




Posted on April 12, 2001

Biotech Fearmongers, Washington Post, April 11, 2001

FRONTLINE/NOVA film "Harvest of Fear," airing Tuesday, April 24 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings)

  • Website to be launched in conjunction with the film: Harvest of Fear




Posted on April 11, 2001

Researchers Find Gene Responsible For Plant's Self-Defense Mechanism "Jasmonic acid carboxyl methyltransferase: A key enzyme for jasmonate-regulated plant responses"- ABSTRACT, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 98, Issue 8, 4788-4793, April 10, 2001

Monitoring gene flow from transgenic sugar beet using cytoplasmic male-sterile bait plants, (ABSTRACT) Molecular Ecology vol. 9 (12) p.2035-2040, 2000

RAFI announces the release of a new RAFI Communique -- 2001: A Seed Odyssey, (summary) RAFI's Annual Update on Terminator and Traitor Technology -- Suicide Seeds: Not Dead Yet!
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Science, Sustainability and Organic Practice (Organic Farming in the Sound-Byte Age), [Governor’s Conference on Organic Agriculture, Michigan State University, March 2-3, 2001] William F. Brinton, Woods End Research Laboratory, Mt Vernon Maine




Posted on April 9, 2001

DTN Poll: StarLink Not An Issue in Planting Choices, News Release, Agdayta.com, April 9, 2001

GM presence in seeds inevitable, EU group says, Reuters News Service, April 6, 2001

Mississippi farmer fights for the right to save seed, CropChoice.com News, April 9, 2001

Leaving AgBioTech InfoNet site Summary of the Workshop on Intellectual Property Clearinghouse Mechanisms for Agriculture Friday, February 16, 2001, Center for Sustainable Resource Development, Berkeley, California

Green Groups Claim Biotech-Crops are Contaminating Organic Food, Reuters via Yahoo! News, April 9, 2001

Blown profits: Genetic drift affects more than biology - US farmers stand to lose millions, Boston Globe, April 8, 2001

Gene Blues: Is the Patent Office prepared to deal with the genomic revolution?, Washington Monthly, April 2001

Splicing the Sting Out of Bugs, LA Times, April 9, 2001