Genetic Engineering - <I>Bt</I>- Herbicide Tolerant Varieties

Genetic Engineering

Herbicide Tolerant Varieties

Roundup Ready Soybeans

An appeal from the Third Meeting of the Open-ended Ad hoc Working Group on Biosafety of the UN-Convention on Biological Diversity to revoke the market approval of Monsanto's RR-Soybean

Genetically altered soybeans and labeling --SANET discussion

New York Times article "Genetic Soybeans From the U.S. Alarm Europeans" , November 7, 1996

Europeans Concerned Over Exports of Roundup Ready Soybeans, recent developments documented by the Pesticide Action Network

Roundup Ready Corn
Pioneer Announces Decision on Herbicide Resistance in Corn DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/..."Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. (NYSE: PHB) sent a letter to customers today announcing that due to the current restrictive terms proposed by Monsanto Co., the Company will not carry the Roundup herbicide resistance trait in corn."

Officials of DEKALB Genetics Corporation (NYSE: DKB) announced this week (July 29, 1997) they will be the first and only seed company marketing Roundup Ready(R) corn to growers for the 1998 growing season, pending final governmental approvals that are anticipated by the end of this year.

Herbicide Tolerant Cotton

Editorial in the New York Times, December 8, 1997, "Biotechnology and the Future of Agriculture" by Verlyn Klinkenborg

"Herbicide Buctril Ban" Citing possible cancer risks, EPA announced it will not renuew the temporary tolerances granted last year for Buctril (targeting bromoxynil and DBHA)

"Seeds of Discontent: Cotton Growers Say Strain Cuts Yields", by Allen R. Myerson in The New York Times, November 19, 1997 " Monsanto calls the genetically engineered cotton it developed with Delta and Pine Land Co. the most successful product introduction in farming history -- likely to make cotton the nation's first crop in which genetically altered varieties predominate. But here in the Mississippi Delta, the revolution has produced enough casualties that officials are now warning farmers to hold off until further testing proves the technology's reliability."
Mississippi Investigating Monsanto's RoundUp-Ready Cotton, an article from MEMPHIS COMMERCIAL APPEAL, 8-18-97

Monsanto's cotton gets the Mississippi blues, Kurt Kleiner, Washington, D.C. from New Scientist , November 1, 1997. "Farmers in mississippi could lose millions of dollars following the partial failure of a new genetically engineered cotton crop."
Emerging Technologies

Resistance

"Blunting Resistance to Herbicides" an article in IPMnet News, August 1997, excerpted from: WEED TECHNOLOGY , 11(2), 384-393, April-June 1997

A position statement on herbicide tolerant crops, issued May 1997, from Dennis Keeney, Director of the Leopold Center

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