Deal gives rice diversity a boost
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Crop research groups agree to ensure long-term funding of the world's largest repository of rice samples.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mouse,...
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The Christian Science Monitor - In rice-growing states, traces of an unapproved genetically modified (GM) rice have been found mixed in with conventional rice meant for human consumption.
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The U.S. Agriculture Department said  on Friday it verified a strip kit that can detect the  unapproved genetically modified Liberty Link rice trait in 10  minutes.
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After the Indian Ocean tsunami in  December 2004, farmers around the region relied on stockpiles  from a Philippine-based rice institute to provide them with  rice varieties that could grow in salty soils.
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The Agriculture Department has given a preliminary green light for the first commercial production of a food crop engineered to contain human genes, reigniting fears that biomedically potent substances in high-tech plants could escape and turn up in other foods.
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The Agriculture Department last night took the unusual step of insisting that U.S. farmers refrain from planting a popular variety of long-grain rice because preliminary tests showed that its seed stock may be contaminated with a variety of gene-altered rice not approved for marketing in the United...
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BANGKOK - The future looked brighter for leaf-tailed geckos and great white sharks after a UN meeting on trade in wild plants and animals.
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The move marked a major agreement among the countryâs ethnic and sectarian political blocs on a highly divisive issue.
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The green light for farmers to grow 17 different varieties of genetically-modified maize was described today as âa recipe for disasterâ.
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Monsanto and BASF team up to grow better plants.
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When Fred Zaunbrecher heard in August that the popular variety of long-grain rice he was planning to grow had become contaminated with snippets of experimental, unapproved DNA, the Louisiana rice farmer took it in stride and ordered a different variety of seed for his spring planting.
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A NEW bio-diversity officer has been appointed by Stafford Borough Council to boost its commitment to protecting and enhancing local wildlife and habitats.
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An unauthorized genetically modified  (GMO) rice has found its way into the European Union's retail  food sector and appeared for sale at branches of discount  supermarket Aldi, environment group Greenpeace said on Monday.
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A recent deal to protect the habitat of endangered coral may offer US environmentalists new leverage.
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Korea and Singapore sealed a free-trade agreement yesterday that covers nine broad areas, including electronics, finance and intellectual property rights.
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Kansas rice growers get preliminary approval for a large-scale plan to grow genetically altered rice for pharmaceutical purposes. Is it safe? By the Associated Press.