India decided to delay the approval of insect resistant eggplants, links to various coverage, and how much difference a comma makes.
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Scientists at India’s NIPGR Create a Longer-Lasting Tomato (Studying The Regulation of Fruit Ripening)
Author’s note: This would seem to be the week for vegetables I hated as a kid. Yesterday was onion, today tomato, if there’s a story about brinjal/eggplant in the next few days we’ll have hit all the big ones.
I was recently pointed to an early publication paper that went up on the Proceedings [...]
China’s Approval of Bt Rice Confirmed
Read today’s story from Bloomberg. I’d discussed my own thoughts when it was a story based on anonymous sources last week.
From the article:
China produces 31 percent of the world’s rice and 20 percent of its corn, U.S. Department of Agriculture data show. …[China] uses 7 percent of the world’s arable land to feed a quarter [...]
State Dinners
Anastasia has started an interesting discussion over at Biofortified about the food served at the Obamas’ first state dinner, a reception for the visiting Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh.*
The dinner was quite light on meat** and included both traditional American and Indian foods. As I said last night on the twitter feed: Anyone who [...]
This is Why It’s Important to Know What bt Stands For
We’ve been hearing more about India in the news lately. Along with the decision about whether or not to approve bt eggplants (brinjal), India is also debating a set of new biotechnology intellectual property laws. As I’ve said in the past India currently doesn’t recognize genetic patents, so anybody can breed transgenes into their own [...]
Indian Farmers
Over 60% of India’s workforce still works in the agricultural sector. Most are tenant farmers living in small villages, and a recent survey says a minimum of 40% of them would rather be doing something else rather than farming. At the same time the country is facing a looming crisis with as crop yields haven’t [...]
Genetically Engineered Crops: Cotton
Bt cotton is the most widely grow genetically engineered crop in the world today. (Probably because it’s harder to convince people who already wear everything from polyester to pleather that cotton from a a plant that’s 99.99% identical to its non-genetically engineered parent is unnatural).