GM rice delivers antibodies against deadly rotavirusa strain of rice genetically engineered to protect against diarrhoeal disease could offer a cost-effective way to protect children in developing countries,
Researchers engineered the rice, called Mucorice-ARP1, by adding an antibody to fight rotavirus originally found in llamas in the rice genome.
Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe diarrhea in young children and infants, killing more than 520,000 people each year,
and found these mice had significantly less virus than mice fed normal rice. The rice could be used to complement vaccinations to protect children
when they are at their most vulnerable to rotavirus, say the researchers. But it had not yet been tested on humans,
For example, the rice could be given to children under two years old when rotavirus infection is most likely to prove fatal.
although the antibodies could also be ingested either in cooked rice or by drinking the water in
Iturriza-Gomara says the rice could also prove useful during rotavirus outbreaks by lowering transmission rates.
Once you have engineered the rice, then it's just a matter of growing it, says Iturriza-Gomara.
She says the ease of growing rice, and the fact that it is produced widely as a staple food make it a good vehicle for delivering the antibody.
and were heavily dependent on rye and barley crops in an unfavourable growing climate. The researchers analysed data on crop yields over a 50-year period that culminated in a severe famine in the 1860s
GM-rice fallout Guangwen Tang, a nutrition scientist at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, has been banned by the university from conducting human research for two years owing to ethics violations in a study
Tang tested the health benefits of Golden Rice genetically modified to produce a Vitamin a precursor on children in China s Hunan province (see Nature http://doi. org/nv9;
Tufts also said that the participants were informed not adequately about the genetically modified nature of the rice.
maize (corn) grown in pastures that previously hosted Brachiaria produces nearly four times as much grain with low levels of fertilizer as maize grown in previously cropped land."
to introduce them into crops such as wheat or rice. Plants could then produce their own inhibitors
California, has taken a gene for an enzyme called alanine amino  transferase from barley and incorporated it into other crops to encourage them to absorb nitrogen before microbes do.
African rice with this gene produced the same yield as controls, using only half the fertilizer.
The study found that rats fed for two years with Monsanto s glyphosate-resistant NK603 maize (corn) developed many more tumours
%The rule is projected to reduce maize (corn) ethanol consumption by 3 Â billion litres next year,
The idea of introducing aphid alarm pheromones into wheat to protect it against aphid attack that comes out of that group.
whether to authorize GM maize (corn) made by Dupont Pioneer in Johnston, Iowa, which first requested approval in 2001.
He says that grain production in fertile regions is still substantial, but has dropped sharply in less fertile spots.
Many sites once used to produce feed could today support wheat varieties and other cereals,
If fully replanted, he estimates the region s idle land could yield some 90 million tonnes of grain per year about 35 million tonnes more than Russia s wheat production in 2013.
it would help to satisfy the rising global demand for cereals for food and animal feed projected to reach 3 billion tonnes by 2050.
The company plans to sell a mixture of fungi for coating rice and maize (corn) seeds,
In rice, the scientists saw yield increases of 3-6%in 2012 and 2013, despite drought and early-season planting when temperatures were cool.
including soya beans, wheat, barley and sugar cane. But the question of whether Bioensure will work in commercial conditions is hard to answer:
Richard Richards, who leads research to breed better wheat for the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation s plant industry division in Canberra,
and often out of diets that involved little more than rice have shown marked increases in their trophic level.
including sugar cane and maize (corn). But most of the biomass produced in agriculture and forestry lies unused in more-complex chains of sugars, for example lignin and cellulose.
Seeds of change The US Department of agriculture (USDA) on 3 Â January proposed removing restrictions on the use of maize (corn)
GM maize Europe may allow farmers to grow a genetically modified (GM) variety of maize (corn) after a proposal to approve the crop did not receive enough opposition to be quashed at a meeting of European union member states on 11 february.
Irrigation call Global yields of maize (corn) could rise by 67%by 2050 if farmers in the developing world stopped tilling their soil and began irrigating their fields,
although it did plant its first drought-tolerant maize (corn) varieties, suggesting potential for future growth.
whether to approve a genetically modified maize (corn) crop called Pioneer 1507, which is engineered to be resistant to insect pests. 12-13 february London hosts a global conference on the illegal trade in wildlife.
and involved linseed, rice, maize (corn) and papaya. Once detected, most shipments were destroyed or returned to the country of origin.
the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico is holding a conference to discuss the state of research on wheat. go. nature. com/hrne9g26-28 march Physicists debate a suitable landing site for the Exomars rover at a meeting
But unlike most ethanol factories, in which yeast feeds on sugars in foodstuffs such as maize (corn) kernels,
Thousands of tonnes of corn stover the leaves, stalks and husks left over after the maize harvest are stacked already waiting
With more than 200 operating plants, the corn-ethanol industry is established well in the United states. Its dramatic growth has been driven by tax credits
In its early years, the law emphasized the production of corn ethanol, considered ripe for early commercialization.
EIAYET corn ethanol comes with problems. It offers only modest savings in greenhouse-gas emissions compared to petrol (see Nature 499,13-14;
Ethanol made from corn stover produces at least 60%less greenhouse-gas emissions than petrol, and making it does not require any extra farmland.
Hence the scale of Abengoa s processing facility, much larger and more expensive than any corn-ethanol plant.
In 2012, the industry produced more than 50 billion litres of corn ethanol, comprising 10%of US transportation fuel enough to completely satisfy demand for the E10 petrol blend that most vehicles now burn (see Hitting the wall).
Corn ethanol is now slightly cheaper than petrol, but cellulosic ethanol is more expensive than both.
A cellulosic-ethanol plant s capital costs are roughly twice those of a corn-ethanol plant,
and it says that will be cheaper than corn ethanol. This is mostly because the feedstock is cheap.
just as corn ethanol was it can get back on the trajectory set out by the RFS.""If, he adds,
the plant scientist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for developing high-yielding wheat crops,
whether it should allow sales of maize (corn) and soya bean seeds that are engineered genetically to resist herbicides such as 2, 4-D
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which barley is mixed with steamy hot water and slowly stirred. It doesn t feel like a factory:
Iowa is the nation's top corn and soybean producer so this state's problems are really every state's problems.
Combined Iowa and Illinois grow about a third of the corn in the U s. The scientists are calling for individual farms
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#Irradiated Seeds Combat World's Most Serious Wheat Diseasekenyan farmers last week got a first look at two new varieties of wheat that are resistant to the number-one threat to worldwide wheat production.
They got to see resistant and non-resistant wheat side by side in fields. The Kenyan government is also giving away the first batch of seeds six metric tons of it to seed producers in hopes their fields will serve as visual persuasion to their neighbors to try the new stuff.
Wheat stem rust has the ability to turn a healthy-looking crop only one week away from harvest into a tangle of black stems Liang Qu the director of the Joint FAO/IAEA Programme
The story of how that wheat got made is a peek into the constant worldwide fight against crop diseases.
The new plants are designed to combat wheat stem rust a fungus that used to take out a fifth of the U s.'wheat crop at once during epidemics through the 1950s.
and the winner of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize once nearly eradicated wheat stem rust by developing resistant wheat varieties.
But a generation later Borlaug's wheats don't work anymore. The rust has evolved. And as well as the new Kenyan wheats work now stem rust will evolve again.
In 1999 scientists first confirmed there was a new type of wheat stem rust that infected Borlaug's resistant wheats.
They called the new rust Ug99 after its confirmation year and country Uganda. Since then the rust which moves through the air has spread to Africa and the Middle east.
It affects 37 percent of all the wheat grown in the world the International atomic energy agency estimates.
Liang's program a collaboration between the United nations'Food and agriculture organization and the International atomic energy agency supported the Kenyan researcher who developed the new wheats.
To make rust-resistant wheats Miriam Kinyua a researcher at Eldoret University in Kenya sent wheat seeds popular with Kenyan farmers to the FAO/IAEA joint laboratories There the seeds got blasted
and tested the seeds for their Ug99 resistance ultimately coming up with two types of wheats that worked.
For small-scale Kenyan farmers planting new varieties of wheat is a better strategy than using fungicides
The FAO and the IAEA are excited pretty about these new wheats. They've put out press releases.
That's because they expect that wheat stem rust will eventually evolve resistance to these new wheats at
which point they'll have to create a whole new wheat variety to combat that rust.
The new wheats likely will work for three to five years Liang estimates. We have to keep an eye out he says.
Mutant wheat? Sounds like a grade B horror movie! Night of the Mutant Wheat! Joe:
We now know what's been killing off the bees but what about that family that died after eating that new Winderbread whole wheat bread?
On their own these look yellow or orange carotenoids give color to corn and carrots for example but they re invisible beneath the chlorophyllic green of a leaf for most of the year.
so approaching on I-70 from either direction means driving about two hours past huge tracts of farmland soy corn
and wheat fields and herds of grazing cattle. Giant truck stops glow on the horizon and mile-long trains tug boxcars loaded with grain to places as far away as Mexico and California.
It s rich country that for nearly 150 years has fed the nation and the world.
Engineered Golden Rice May be planted Soon In Philippines By Francie Diep Posted on 8. 6. 2013 19 Comments 8. 9. 2013 at 06:
Engineered Golden Rice May be planted Soon In Philippines By Francie Diep Posted on 8. 6. 2013 19 Comments 8. 8. 2013 at 09:
if one finds alot more beans rice and oatmeal in the diet. You mean if they aren't taught to eat properly at home they don't at school?
& oranges & broccoli & beets & pecans & cheese & garlic & olives & tomatoes & raspberries & blueberries & sweet potatoes & asparagus & cherries & bell peppers & spinach & green beans & lentils & sweet cream & popcorn
& whole grain spelt bread & quinoa & oatmeal & cranberries & caramel & & & & & &...The only thing that makes an all meat diet not work is cooking it.
America is a net exporter of corn rice and wheat and other countries buy it. Saudi arabia is a net exporter of oil
and other countries buy it. See how that works? Food production technology continues to improve worldwide as does energy production.
I'm pulling out my popcorn. Let's see where this stunt goes. If they were intended really as thought experiments it would be one thing
Factory farm animals like cows pigs and chickens consume massive amounts of grain water and land and require the deforestation of huge swathes of the planet.
and salsa (toasted cricket corn flour) and a cricket moon pie with mill worm filling.
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#Farmers Rip up Experimental Golden Rice Plants In The Philippinesa decade and a half after it was invented first genetically engineered rice may soon grow in farmer's fields for the first time in the Philippines.
Just as some in the U s. oppose GMO technology however so do some Filipinos. After seeing the BBC's report this week that Philippine scientists are close to submitting golden rice rice engineered to make Vitamin a for regulatory approval
I looked for local news on the development. Farmers entered test fields and ripped up 400 experimental plants Philippine tabloid paper Remate reported yesterday.
The International Rice Research Institute expects golden rice's price will be the same as regular rice.
The rice's inventors and patent-holders arranged for their licenses to be available without royalties.
so that one field test can't continue according to a statement from the Philippine Rice Research Institute.
Nevertheless golden rice research in the Philippines will continue the institute said in another statement.
The farmers also believed that golden rice would be unsafe to eat. Others in the country share their worries.
In June a group called Green Moms held a rally in Quezon City to protest golden rice.
Protestors Philstar talked with were worried primarily about the rice's safety for kids. Both the farmers and the Green Mom members seemed opposed to genetically engineered food generally.
Safety tests would be part of the Philippine government's approval process for golden rice Philippine Rice Research Institute project leader Antonio Alfonso told the BBC.@
@Wonder It does not work that way with Rice farming. Rice is grown in Paddies which are swampy
and water filled A lot of the work is done my hand or with the assistance of animals.
or squash gene for Vitamin a in rice is to them a sinister act. For countless generations civilization has used selective breeding
Corn being the easiest to name. Corn today is nothing like their ancestors. And without the science we have had today they no idea
if those changes could harm the nutritional value. People living in the stone ages...mitej invokes the same fallacy namely âÂ#Âoescientistsã¢Â# don't lie âÂ#Âoescientistsã¢Â# can't lie.
but it is scientifically proven by large studies that the golden rice is nothing but a scam.
and secondly that the quantity of rice an average young child has to eat to get its daily dosis of Vitamin a is about 300-400g.
We are amazed always that the PR companies hired by these big food corporations never understood that. http://www. rainydaymagazine. com We Entertain When It Rainsgm rice puts small farmers out of business due to the high cost of seed.
Especially when it comes to corn. As much as 88 percent of corn grown in the U s. is modified genetically.
But is that as bad as anti-GMO activists make it out to be? Over at Slate Jon Entine has a scathing critique of Elle magazine's nail-biting feature on genetically modified corn (categorized in the hair
and beauty section because uh sickness makes you ugly?)in which writer Caitlin Shetterly explores a diagnosis that her years of sickness were the result of an allergy to genetically modified corn.
The problem Entine points out is that the science to back up that claim just doesn't exist.
There has not been one study that links the genetically engineered corn or any approved genetically modified food on the market to allergies one of his sources plant geneticist Pamela Ronald told him.
and bacteria to deliver the genes into the corn so that it can produce Delta Endotoxin.
Bt-corn is a type of genetically modified organism termed GMO. A GMO is a plant
Examples of GMO field crops include Bt-potatoes Bt-corn Bt-sweet corn Roundup Ready soybeans Roundup Ready Corn
and Liberty Link corn. www2. ca. uky. edu/entomology/entfacts/ef130. aspsincerely-Joe www. joesid. comunfortunately nature is winning.
and Chemical Toxicology found that rats fed on a diet of 33 per cent NK603 corn
and Empmortakaten. www. businessinsider. com/monsantos-roundup-and-resistant-corn-found-to-be-toxic-2012-9sincerely-Joewww. joesid. comtangsten thank you for the link.
The study cited in the article was a 2-year toxicology study of rats fed Monsanto's Roundup-resistant NK103 maize (corn) and the herbicide Roundup.
www. businessinsider. com/monsantos-roundup-and-resistant-corn-found-to-be-toxic-2012-9it says:
Six French Science Academies Dismiss Study Finding GM Corn Harmed Ratshere is attached the link to the comment:
http://dotearth. blogs. nytimes. com/2012/10/19/six-french-science-academies-dismiss-study-finding-gm-corn-harmed-rats/?
âÂ#Âoethere has not been one study that links the genetically engineered corn or any approved genetically modified food on the market to allergies.
A study was published recently examining adverse effects of Bacillus thuringensis (aka the Bt toxin) that Monsanto builds into their corn and soy.
and Corn Offers Frightening Results www. nationofchange. org/first-long-term-study-released-pigs-cattle-who-eat-gmo-soy
-and-corn-offers-frightening-results-13723stunning Corn Comparison: GMO versus NON GMO www. momsacrossamerica. com stunning corn comparison gmo versus non gmoknown to Kill Cows Castrate Wildlife Induce Spontaneous abortion in Lab Rats...
And it's Likely in Your Water articles. mercola. com/sites/articles/archive/2012/07/19/gmo-corn-resulting-livestock-deaths. aspx?
e cid=20120719 dnl artnew 24 More Damning Studies on GMO Corn: 1. A 2008 long-term study commissioned by the Austrian Agency for Health and Food safety looked at how Monsanto s genetically modified corn currently eaten
and sold in the world today affects the fertility of mice. The mice which were fed the GMO corn had significantly lower fertility rates than the mice fed natural non-GMO corn.
Disturbingly this declining ability to have continued babies down through future mouse generations as well. ÃÃÚÂ Ã 2. A comparative analysis published in the International Journal of Biological sciences examined the health effects of three different varieties of Monsanto-developed GMO corn on mice.
While the specific effects differed depending upon the variety of GMO corn that was eaten the dose that was consumed
and the sex of the mammal all three varieties of GMO corn caused damage to the animals major detoxifying organs namely the liver and the kidneys.
Other effects were also found in the heart adrenal glands spleen bone marrow lymph nodes and other blood-making organsã¢Â#Âll of which are signs of severe toxicity. 3. This past year Food Chemical Toxicology published the results of a two-year study conducted by scientists at the University of Caen
Institute of Biology in France looking at the effects of genetically modified corn. The research showed that in both male
and female rats the death rates for the animals fed GMO corn was two to three times higher than the animals eating non-GMO corn.
and management company recently released a report that showed staggering nutritional deficiencies in GMO corn
when compared to non-GMO corn. For example while average non-GMO corn contains 6130 ppm of calcium GMO corn contains 14 ppm four hundred-and-thirty-seven times less than the original vegetable.
Non-GMO corn contains 113 ppm of magnesium and GMO corn contains 2 ppm which is fifty-six times less.
Non-GMO corn contains 14 ppm of manganese while GMO corn contains 2 ppm. Deficiencies in these vital nutrients are associated with increased rates of osteoporosis cancer and other diseases.
Monsanto s GMO corn is engineered to be immune to glyphosate-based weed-killers such as Monsanto s trademarked Roundupãherbicide used on crops and fields nationwide.
This saves farmers the trouble of having to till their soil and de-weed their fields first allowing them to bathe their lands with abundant amounts of glyphosate herbicides in the presence of corn without concern that their corn crops will be killed.
However this also means that modern corn is laced with extensive glyphosate residues that we eat on a regular basis. Research shows that regular long-term intake of glyphosate is linked to increased risks of gastrointestinal disorders obesity diabetes heart disease
depression autism infertility cancer and Alzheimer s disease. ÃÚ à The glyphosate-resistance of GMO corn has encouraged such an over-abundance of glyphosate-based herbicides to be dumped into the environment worldwide that nature has started to respond in kind with the evolution of âÂ#Âoesuperweeds.
âÂ# A report published by the National Academy of Sciences Board on Agriculture
and Natural resources found at least nine species of weeds that have evolved naturally to withstand glyphosate weed-killers.
Other studies are beginning to discover certain insects that are adapting to GMO corn s inherent insecticide abilities.
As nature starts to catch up to our laboratory antics the agricultural and economic advantages of GMO corn are starting to become obsolete
and are forcing farmers to dump even more varieties of toxic chemical herbicides and pesticides on our foods in order to stay ahead of nature s race.
GMO corn contains an extremely high level of formaldehyde a chemical linked to adverse health effects and various forms of cancer.
While one study found that 0. 97 ppm of formaldehyde is toxic to mammals GMO corn was found to contain 200 times that amount. these comments...
when that grain solidified from lava. A single sedimentary stone might contain pebbles and bits of wildly different ages.
#Engineered Golden Rice May be planted Soon In Philippinesnearly 15 years after its invention farmers in the Philippines could start growing golden rice within a year the BBC reports.
But much depends on what national regulators will say after Filipino scientists submit their rice samples for approval in a few weeks.
Golden rice which is modified genetically to produce Vitamin a has had a tortuous journey from lab to field.
Consistent opposition against genetically modified crops has delayed every step of golden rice's development as Science magazine reported in 2008.
Golden rice continues to see opposition in the Philippines. Opponents worry that the rice will cross-pollinate with non-modified plants
which they say has unknown consequences. The BBC report cites worries that the modified rice will threaten the nation's food security
but it's unclear if that means cross-pollination may cause non-modified rice to die or what.)
Opponents also say there are better ways of relieving Vitamin a deficiency such as encouraging farmers to grow
Philippine governmental authorities will evaluate the rice's food safety feed safety environmental safety safety to humans safety to animals all these are considered Antonio Alfonso the lead scientist for the Philippine Rice Research
The Philippine Rice Research Institute is a branch of the International Rice Research Institute which studies golden rice.
The government has no official position on the high-tech grain the BBC reports. BBC Why aren't there tests inside controlled environments to see what effects there are of cross pollination?
golden rice doesn't produce Vitamin a it produces beta carotene (think carrots or Guernsey milk) which yields Vitamin a when it is consumed.
@shutterpod...genetic modification happens in the lab only really guess you never heard of domestication corn hybrids or evolution?
do you think the corn we grow today is a form found wild? just as laurenra7 states this is more precise
Those who stand to make money by engineering the grain producing the medicines that will be needed to undo the damage it will do
when for example patent interests allow the companies to deny the right to grow the rice already have their raft of reasons.
To have golden rice as prominent a part of diets in the East as suggested can lead to literal Vitamin a poisoning.
Just got a sudden craving for a hot steaming bowl of rice with soya sauce..@
For example fish genes have been placed in tomatoes human genes in tobacco bacteria in corn and viruses in squash and fruit.
and equating that it's no different than crossing white corn with yellow corn??Profit-mongering chemical corporations
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