ARGENTINA

Cattle deaths at Bt cotton fields trigger biosafety fear

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Breach of trust

The world’s premier rice research institute tilts towards intellectual property rights

Question of safety

The Bangkok conference on the risks of genetically modified corps advocated greater investment of public funds in bio-safety research

Untangling India’s Bt cotton fraud

ICAR’s top research institutes and GEAC exposed in Bt cotton research scam

Bt Cotton imbroglio

A failure of our scientific preparedness. Where are our scientists?

Report on GM crops unfortunate: industry

The parliamentary committee on agriculture has strongly criticised the regulatory system on genetically modified (GM) crops in the country, …

Supergrass

Here is the latest on genetically-modified plants with enough power to neutralise some of the most potent pollutants we know today

Beware the modified wolf

Will bureaucrats choose to throw farmers and ecology to the mercy of multinational corporations by preparing the way for cultivation of …

Furore over seeds

Sri Lanka regulates GM food import

Public protests mount against Bt brinjal

Supreme Court seeks details on steps to protect indigenous varieties

The age of discovery

Research in rice genomics could be the key to eradicating hunger through environmentally sustainable methods, says Latha Rangan

Bt-by-Bt assessment

On November 10, 2002, people wearing 'Bollgard' caps visited cotton farmer R Narsimha Reddy at his home in Aleru, a village in Nalgonda, Andhra …

Low cost, high risk

Modified by climate

Global warming has resulted in genetic alternations among living beings

Playing safe

Manipulating research

Weedy resistance

Science & Technology - Briefs

Why experts want GM freeze

Say regulatory system has grave deficiencies; challenge agriculture ministry’s claims

Regulatory battle

Industry and activists have expressed conflicting opinions on GM crops. GEAC has a difficult decision to make

Gearing up for Bt cotton

Farmers ready to sow GM cotton in Andhra Pradesh

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