Biotech

• Biotechnology Industry Organization renamed Biotechnology Innovation Organization

  Date：Jan. 7, 2016 Category：Biotech

  To better reflect the remarkable progress and groundbreaking innovations its members achieve in healing, fueling and feeding the world, BIO – the world's large...

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• Monsanto’s Bt Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybean to commercialize in Brazil

  Date：Aug. 23, 2010 Category：Biotech

  Monsanto Company confirmed that at yesterdays National Technical Biosafety Committee (CTNBio) meeting in Brazil, the committee approved Monsantos

• Monsanto plans 2 high-yielding corn hybrids by 2011

  Date：Aug. 20, 2010 Category：Biotech

  Monsanto India (MIL), the leading hybrid seed and technology provider, plans to launch two high-yielding hybrid variety of maize, next year.

• Mycogen Seeds introduces two new sunflower hybrids

  Date：Aug. 16, 2010 Category：Biotech

  Two new sunflower hybrids from Mycogen Seeds will debut for the 2011 planting season. The new high-performing hybrids feature differentiated sunflower technolog...

• Kenya to grow GM cotton on large scale by 2012

  Date：Aug. 11, 2010 Category：Biotech

  Kenyas cotton production is set to increase six-fold by 2012, after the country adopts biotech cotton (Bt cotton).The country awaits the Biosafety Act whose reg...

• Uganda trials GM bananas

  Date：Aug. 11, 2010 Category：Biotech

  GM bananas are currently being tested in Uganda, but doubts remain concerning the benefits of GM for African farmers.

• Genetic Technologies grants third license to Monsanto

  Date：Aug. 9, 2010 Category：Biotech

  Genetic Technologies Limited (ASX: GTG; NASDAQ: GENE) is pleased to announce that it has granted a third license to Monsanto Company of St. Louis, Missouri, USA...

• Philippines: GM aubergines field-tested for approval

  Date：Aug. 4, 2010 Category：Biotech

  In the Philippines, the approval of genetically modified (GM) aubergines has moved a step closer. The vegetables are resistant to a prominent pest and may enter...

• Syngentas Enogen corn amylase trait received Japan and Taiwan approves

  Date：Aug. 3, 2010 Category：Biotech

  Syngenta Seeds, Inc., announced it has received import approvals from Japanese and Taiwanese regulatory authorities for its Enogen corn amylase trait (Event 327...

• Mycogen Seeds to launch 13 new SmartStax corn hybrids for 2011

  Date：Aug. 2, 2010 Category：Biotech

  Mycogen Seeds will launch 13 new SmartStax hybrids within the companys 2011 grain corn lineup. MYCOGEN SmartStax hybrids offer a lower 5-percent structured refu...

• Brazilian farmers declare war on Monsanto

  Date：Jul. 21, 2010 Category：Biotech

  Farmers from two separate Brazilian associations are preparing to file suit against biotechnology giant Monsanto, in a fight over the royalty fees the company d...

• Uganda authorizes confined field trials for three crops

  Date：Jul. 19, 2010 Category：Biotech

  Confined field trials for cassava brown stricken disease, sweet potato weevil, and water efficient maize for Africa (WEMA) have been approved by the Ugandan Nat...

• Monsanto seeks US approval for dicamba-tolerant soybeans

  Date：Jul. 14, 2010 Category：Biotech

  Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) has taken an important step toward commercializing a new soybean product that will provide growers with a highly effective and econ...

• Asgrow brand Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybean seed proves to be tough competitor in Indiana soybean field

  Date：Jul. 12, 2010 Category：Biotech

  Impressed by early season performance, Lebanon, Ind., farmer Allen Mohler is already convinced that Asgrow? brand Genuity? Roundup Ready 2 Yield? is the soybean...

• Nuziveedu sees opportunity in paddy seed business

  Date：Jul. 6, 2010 Category：Biotech

  Nuziveedu Seeds, which has a market share of 41 per cent in the cottonseed business in the country, has set a sales target of 1.06 crore packets (a packet consi...

• Philippines to become the first to commercialize GM eggplant in Asia

  Date：Jul. 6, 2010 Category：Biotech

  The Philippines will become the first in Asia to commercialize the genetically modified (GM) fruit and shoot borer (FSB)-resistant eggplant by 2011. This develo...

• U.S. biotech crops acres still increasing

  Date：Jul. 5, 2010 Category：Biotech

  The number of U.S. acres planted to biotech varieties increased again in 2010.

• Monsanto seeks EPA registration for RIB option for GM corn

  Date：Jul. 1, 2010 Category：Biotech

  Responding to U.S. corn farmers requests to simplify insect resistance management, Monsanto Company announced that it has submitted for registration to the U.S....

• AG group ask USDA not to deregulate Roundup Ready alfalfa

  Date：Jun. 28, 2010 Category：Biotech

  Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), joined by 49 other representatives and five other senators, are asking Agriculture Secretary Tom Vil...

• Nuzvid Seeds Bt Cotton banned

  Date：Jun. 23, 2010 Category：Biotech

  District Collector B. Ramanjaneyulu on Friday issued orders banning sale and distribution of a variety of Bt Cotton seed – BRCH - 331 – in Guntur district man...

• S&W Seed releases worlds first 8 dormancy salt tolerant alfalfa variety

  Date：Jun. 23, 2010 Category：Biotech

  S&W Seed Company (NasdaqCM: SANW), announces the commercial launch of its newly certified alfalfa variety, SW 8421S, the worlds only Group 8 dormancy salt toler...

• China’s agricultural guru devotes to finishing new hybrid rice in 2012

  Date：Jun. 22, 2010 Category：Biotech

  Yuan Longping, known as the "father of hybrid rice", said on Sunday that his team was working on a new version of high-yield hybrid rice and might complete it i...

• Super high yielding wheat R&D center launched in the Henan Province of China

  Date：Jun. 21, 2010 Category：Biotech

  Recently, Quality and Super High-Yielding Wheat Research and Development Center had its unveiling ceremony in Henan Zhongpu Wheat Technology Co., Ltd.

• Japan approves breakthrough Syngenta Seeds corn trait and stacks

  Date：Jun. 17, 2010 Category：Biotech

  Syngenta Seeds, Inc., announced it has received approval from Japanese regulatory authorities for the Agrisure Viptera? trait, the Agrisure Viptera 3111 trait s...

• GM potatoes planted in Norfolk, UK

  Date：Jun. 10, 2010 Category：Biotech

  A CROP of genetically modified (GM) potatoes was planted in Norfolk on Tuesday as work began at the Sainsbury Laboratory to investigate blight resistance.

• USDA approved DuPont’s Plenish(TM) High Oleic Soybeans

  Date：Jun. 9, 2010 Category：Biotech

  DuPont announced it has reached a regulatory milestone and the final step of the U.S. regulatory process with confirmation from the United States Department of ...

• British Government opens the door for GM crops

  Date：Jun. 8, 2010 Category：Biotech

  The United Kingdom has taken a step closer to the commercial production of genetically modified crops, with strong backing from the new Environment Secretary, C...

• Kumato tomato developed by Syngenta available in Turkey

  Date：Jun. 8, 2010 Category：Biotech

  The Kumato tomato is now available in Turkey. First bred by Syngenta in Spain they are now appearing in supermarkets and grocery stores in Turkey.

• FSSAI prepares draft rules on "Operationalizing the Regulation of Genetically Modified Foods in India"

  Date：Jun. 7, 2010 Category：Biotech

  The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has prepared draft rules on "Operationalizing the Regulation of Genetically Modified Foods in India". T...

• EU to give GM crops go-ahead

  Date：Jun. 7, 2010 Category：Biotech

  Genetically modified (GM) crops could be grown across the European Union under plans to overhaul the approvals process, Reuters news agency has reported.