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1st semester
2001
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Verpackung
Pflanzen: Weltmeister im Verpacken
Date: January 4, 2001
Formats: .ppt (11,473 k)
Language: german
Bookmark: Verpackung.ppt
dTph1 transposition system of
Petunia hybrida
Date: January 4, 2001
Formats: .ptt (16,354 k), .pdf (948 k), HTML
Bookmark: printformatvillars.ppt
Springende
Gene in Petunia: Vorschlag für ein Demonstrationsprojekt
Das Referendum über die Genschutzinitiative am 7. Juni
1998 hat einem grossen Publikum gezeigt, welche enorme Möglichkeiten die
Gentechnologie für die Grundlagenwissenschaft, die Medizin und Landwirtschaft
hat. Es hat aber auch eine grosse Verunsicherung in der Bevölkerung zu Tage
gefördert. Dass mangelndes Basiswissen dabei eine Rolle spielt, ist wohl
unbestritten. Wissenschaftler haben die Pflicht, die Bevölkerung weiterhin über
Gentechnologie zu informieren.
Das vorliegende Projekt will das Wissen über Gentechnologie auf einfache,
anschauliche und unbedrohliche Weise fördern.
Date: January 4, 2001
Formats: .pdf (72 k), .doc (34 k)
Language: german
Bookmark: Petunia.doc
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Das
Unkraut
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: The weed
Die erste Pflanze ist entschlüsselt, - die Revolution des Landbaus beginnt
The first plant has been decoded. The agricultural revolution has now begun.
Date: January 07, 2001
Formats (ger): .doc (31 k), .pdf (65 k)
Formats (engl):.doc (31 k), .pdf (73 k)
Utility Examination Guidelines
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is publishing a revised version of guidelines to be used by Office
personnel in their review of patent applications for compliance with the ``utility'' requirement of 35 U.S.C. 101.
Date: January 5, 2001
Formats: HTML
Bookmark: USPTO-utguidelines.htm
Guidelines for Examination of Patent Applications
These Guidelines will be used by USPTO personnel in their review of patent applications for compliance with the ``written
description'' requirement of 35 U.S.C. 112, para. 1.
Date: January 5, 2001
Formats: HTML
Bookmark: USPTO-requirexamguidelines.htm
BT-Plant
Pesticides Biopesticides Action Document
EPA has undertaken a comprehensive, preliminary reassessment of the time limited registrations for
all Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn and cotton plant-pesticides that will be reviewed for registration
renewal in the fall of 2001.
Date: January 14, 2001
Formats: .pdf (54 k)
Bookmark: brad1execsumoverview.pdf
Im falschen
Film - In the Wrong Movie
Der renommierte ETH-Pflanzenbiologe Ingo Potrykus über Greenpeace und die Hexenjagd
gegen die Gentechnologie.
The reputable ETH*
plant biologist Ingo Potrykus on Greenpeace and the witch
hunt against genetic engineering.
Date: February 14, 2001
Formats (ger):.pdf (41 k)
Formats (en): .doc (55 k) .pdf (172 k)
Bookmark: ImfalschenFilm.pdf
Convention
on Biological Diversity - Montpellier
REPORT OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL COMMITTEE FOR THE CARTAGENA
PROTOCOL ON BIOSAFETY ON THE WORK OF ITS FIRST MEETING
Date: February 16, 2001
Formats: .pdf (121 k)
Bookmark: MontpellierProt.pdf
Biosafety
Protocol Issues Paper - Prepared by the Canada Grains Council’s Biosafety
Grain Trade Committee
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety may have significant impact upon the
international grain trade. This paper outlines the major issues, discusses the
background and provides detailed recommendations.
Date: February 16, 2001
Formats: .doc (103 k), .pdf (59 k)
Bookmark: BiosafetyProtCanadaGrain.doc
Nature,
409, 682-683 (2001) Brief Communications
Crawley, M. J. et al. Biotechnology: Transgenic crops in natural
habitats
Date: February 25, 2001
Formats: HTML .pdf (319 k).ppt (Figure only)
Special: Supplementary table .doc (23 k)
AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY:
BENEFITS OF TRANSGENIC SOYBEANS
Soybeans and other crops have been improved genetically for many decades
through traditional crop breeding – a technique that requires that species
be sexually compatible. With the development of biotechnology methods,
scientists have the ability to transfer single genes from one living organism
into another, regardless of species or sexual compatibility. Varieties that
are developed through the transfer of genes between species that are not
sexually compatible are referred to as "transgenic."
Date: March 2, 2001
Formats: .pdf (274 k)
Bookmark: soy85.pdf
WHITE PAPER ON THE POSSIBLE
PRESENCE OF CRY9C PROTEIN IN PROCESSED HUMAN FOODS MADE FROM FOOD FRACTIONS
PRODUCED THROUGH THE WET MILLING OF CORN
StarLink is a variety of Bt corn that has been genetically
engineered to produce a protein, Cry9C, intended to be toxic to certain insect
pests of corn. Following a thorough scientific review of the safety of this
product, EPA concluded that, other than an unresolved issue regarding the
potential for Cry9C to pose an allergenic risk to humans,
Date: March 9, 2001
Formats: .pdf (56 k)
Bookmark: EPAdraftStarlink20010307.PDF
Elements of Precaution: Recommendations for
the Regulation of Food Biotechnology in Canada
An Expert Panel Report on the Future of Food Biotechnology
prepared by The Royal Society of Canada at the request of Health Canada,
Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Environment Canada
Date: March 12, 2001
Formats: .pdf (776 k)
Bookmark: GMreportEN.pdf
Plant
Physiology, March 2001; Volume 125, Number 3 : Special Issue devoted to the Grasses
The Poaceae (grass family) includes such agriculturally important species as maize, wheat, rice, barley, sorghum, rye, and sugarcane.
Rice is scheduled in 2004 to be the next plant species to be completely
sequenced.
Date: March 15, 2001
Formats: HTML, (selected figures, .ppt, 874 k)
Molecular Biology of Starch-Branching and
-Debranching Enzymes
Peter V. Minorsky
Plant Physiol. 2001 125: 1153-1154.
Date: March 15, 2001
Formats: HTML
Grasses.
A Collective Model Genetic System
Editorial Plant Physiology, March 2001, Vol. 125, pp. 1155–1156,
Date: April 24, 2001
Formats: HTML
Golden Rice and Beyond
Ingo Potrykus
Plant Physiol. 2001 125: 1157-1161
Date: March 15, 2001
Formats: HTML
The cereal plants are, in their own right, an
experimental model system of great merit
Peter V. Minorsky
Plant Physiol. 2001 125: 1162-1163.
Date: March 15, 2001
Formats: HTML
The
Use of the Monsanto Draft Rice Genome Sequence in Research
Gerard F. Barry, Genomics, Monsanto, 800 North Lindbergh
Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63167. Plant Physiol. 2001 125: 1164-1165
Date: March 15, 2001
Formats: HTML
Rice
Bioinformatics. Analysis of Rice Sequence Data and Leveraging the Data to Other Plant Species
Qiaoping Yuan, John Quackenbush, Razvan Sultana, Mihaela Pertea, Steven L. Salzberg, and C. Robin Buell
Plant Physiol. 2001 125: 1166-1174.
Date: March 15, 2001
Formats: HTML (full text), abstract only
Transposon
Insertional Mutagenesis in Rice
R. Greco, Pieter B.F. Ouwerkerk, Christophe Sallaud, Ajay Kohli, Lucia Colombo, Pere Puigdomènech, Emmanuel Guiderdoni, Paul Christou, J. Harry C. Hoge, and Andy Pereira
T
Plant Physiol. 2001 125: 1175-1177.
Date: March 15, 2001
Formats: HTML
Flora and Fauna in Roundup Tolerant Fodder
Beet Fields
Ministry of Environment and Energy National Environmental
Research Institute Technical Report, No. 349, Niels Elmegaard Marianne, Bruus
Pedersen, Department of Terrestrial Ecology
Date: March 16, 2001
Formats: .pdf (294 k)(selected figures, .ppt, 1468 k)
Bookmark: beetreport.pdf
European Parliament resolution on the
Future of the Biotechnology Industry
REPORT on the Future of the Biotechnology Industry
(2000/2100(INI)) Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy,
Rapporteur: John Purvis
Date: March 16, 2001
Formats: .pdf (383 k), .doc (179 k)
Bookmark: PurvisReportProv.pdf
How much Golden Rice has a child to
eat, to prevent vitamin A-deficiency?
How can scientific research into the environmental risks and
safety of GM plants better answer stakeholders’ concerns and be used in
decision making?
Date: March 19, 2001
Formats: .pdf (67 k), .doc (23 k)
Bookmark: PotrykusVitAdata.doc
GENETICALLY ENGINEERED “GOLDEN”
RICE IS UNLIKELY TO OVERCOME VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY
Text of letter published in the Journal of the American
Dietetic Association, 2001, 101 (March): 289-290. Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH,
Professor and Chair, Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, New York
University
Date: March 21, 2001
Formats: .pdf (72 k), .doc (32 k)
Bookmark: NestleGoldenRice.doc
Pew
Initiative on Food and Biotechnology Finds Public Opinion About Genetically
Modified Foods ‘Up For Grabs’
Pew Charitable Trusts Launch Effort To Build A New
Platform For Discussion And Bring Needed Information To National Debate.
Public Sentiment About Genetically Modified Food
By creating the platform for debate about such topics, the Initiative will
give the American public the opportunity to be well informed about
developments in agricultural biotechnology and how such products are
regulated. The Initiative advocates neither for, nor against, agricultural
biotechnology.
Date: March 28, 2001
Formats: .pdf (98 k), .doc (52 k)Mission
Formats: .pdf (27 k), .doc (75 k)Release
Formats: .pdf (204 k), .doc (53 k)Summary, .ppt (Figures)
Bookmark: PEW.doc
Genetically engineered Klebsiella
planticola: A threat to terrestrial plant life?
Witness Brief, Royal Commission on Genetic Modification,
Dr Elaine R. Ingham, Green Party of Aotearoa/New Zealand
Date: April 2, 2001
Formats: .pdf (143 k)
Bookmark: InghamWitness.pdf
Joint statement of evidence provides rebuttal of
assertions about the safety of genetic modification made in the witness brief
and verbal evidence presented by Dr Elaine R Ingham, on behalf of the Green
Party, and submitted to the Royal Commission on Genetic Engineering on 1
February 2001.
Date: April 2, 2001
Formats: .pdf (44 k)
Bookmark: InghamRebuttal.pdf
M.T. Holmes, E.R. Ingham, J.D. Doyle, C.W. Hendricks, Effects
of Klebsiella planticola SDF20 on soil biota and wheat growth in sandy
soil, Applied Soil Ecology 11 (1999) 67±78.
Date: April 3, 2001
Formats: .pdf (221 k)
Bookmark: KlebsiellaHolmes1999.pdf
Dr Elaine R Ingham: I was incorrect in stating that the
specific genetically engineered Klebsiella Planticola I was talking
about had been approved for field trails and was going to be released...
Date: April 3, 2001
Formats: .pdf (76 k), .doc (21 k)
Bookmark: KlebsiellaInhgamApology.doc
Due to new facts coming to light since the presentation of our
evidence on 01 February 2001, the Green Party wishes to amend its evidence as
follows:...
Date: April 3, 2001
Formats: .pdf (77 k), .doc (21 k)
Bookmark: KlebsiellaGreenpartyApology.doc
Liz Fletcher: New Zealand GMO debacle undermines green lobby
nature biotechnology, VOLUME
19, APRIL 2001
Date: April 3, 2001
Formats: HTML
Precaution
without principle
The precautionary principle distracts consumers and
policymakers from known, significant threats to human health and diverts
limited public health resources from genuine and far greater risks.
By Henry I. Miller & Gregory Conko, nature
biotechnology, VOLUME
19, APRIL 2001, pp 302 - 303
Date: April 4, 2001
Formats: HTML
When Transgenes Wander, Should We Worry?
Norman C. Ellstrand, Professor of Genetics, University of
California, Riverside, California. Plant
Physiology, April 2001, Vol. 125, pp. 1543–1545,
The products of plant improvement are not absolutely safe, and we cannot expect transgenic crops to be absolutely safe either. Recognition of that fact suggests that creating something just
because we are now able to do so is an inadequate reason for embracing a new technology. If we have advanced tools for creating novel agricultural products, we should use the advanced
knowledge from ecology and population genetics as well as social sciences and humanities to make mindful choices about to how to create the products that are best for humans and our
environment.
Date: April 15, 2001
Formats: HTML
Potential failsafe mechanisms
against the spread and introgression of transgenic hypervirulent biocontrol
fungi
Jonathan Gressel, TRENDS in Biotechnology Vol.19 No.4
April 2001, pp. 149-154.
Microbial biocontrol agents are typically inefficient owing to the
evolutionary necessity to be in balance with their hosts to survive. If
transgenetically rendered hypervirulent, however, they could be competitive
alternatives to pesticides. Potential means are delineated to prevent, contain
or mitigate uncontrollable spread of hypervirulent biocontrol organisms,
mutations that increase their host range, and the sexual or asexual
introgression of hypervirulence genes into pathogens of other organisms.
Date: April 18, 2001
Formats: .pdf (569 k)
Bookmark: TTEC20AprilGressel.pdf
A postgermination developmental
arrest checkpoint is mediated by abscisic acid and requires the ABI5
transcription factor in Arabidopsis
Luis Lopez-Molina, Sebastien Mongrand, and Nam-Hai Chua,
PNAS, April 10, 2001, vol. 98 no. 8, pp. 4782–4787
Date: April 19, 2001
Formats: .pdf (388 k) HTML, Abstract
Bookmark: http://www.pnas.org/content/vol98/issue8/
REPORT OF A EUROPEAN WORKSHOP STAKEHOLDER
DIALOGUE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS AND
SAFETY OF GM PLANTS
Leiden, The Netherlands, February 28 – March 1, 2001
How can scientific research into the environmental risks and
safety of GM plants better answer stakeholders’ concerns and be used in
decision making?
Date: April 24, 2001
Formats: .pdf (294 k)
Bookmark: Leiden.pdf
DIRECTIVE 2001/18/EC OF THE
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 12 March 2001 on the deliberate
release into the environment of genetically modified organisms and repealing
Council Directive 90/220/EEC
Date: May 05, 2001
Format (engl): .pdf (225 k)
Format (fra): .pdf (239 k)
Format (ita): .pdf (227 k)
Format (ger): .pdf (235 k)
Safety of Genetically Engineered Crops
VIB publication Flanders
Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Editor:
René Custers, regulatory
affairs manager, VIB
What is the debate on genetically engineered crops all about?
Some information on breeding, genetic engineering and agricultural practices
Date: June 22, 2001
Formats: .pdf (1'611 k)
Bookmark: VIBreport.pdf
BIODIVERSITY: THE IMPACT OF
BIOTECHNOLOGY
Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems
EOLSS Publishers, Oxford. 2002
The Convention on Biological Diversity requires that all
Member States take measures to preserve both native and agricultural
biodiversity. The intrinsic value of species and ecosystems, in addition to
their value as starting material for finding new products, is the basis for
these measures.
Date: June 22, 2001
Formats: .pdf (211 k)
Bookmark: Biodiversityfinal.pdf
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