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(By Rodolfo Calò) (ANSAmed) - TEHRAN - The presentation of what has been dubbed the Islamic Nobel Prize for science and technology was held on March 10 in the Iranian capitals Pardis Technological Park. The Mustafa Science and Technology Prize, in honor of ...

Some 38 members of the ISAAA network from 15 countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa gathered together in Hanoi, Vietnam on March 18-19, 2014 to evaluate and discuss their knowledge sharing initiatives on biotechnology. Mr. Le Van Tien, director of AgBiotech Vietnam ...

Addressing the gathering of senior policy makers and agriculture officials, the Union Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation Mr. U Myint Hlaing acknowledged the major contribution of Bt cotton in doubling cotton production and increasing income of small holder farmers in Myanmar...

By JAYSON LUSK and HENRY I. MILLER FEB. 2, 2014- Wheat farmers have suffered as a result, as have consumers of bread and pasta, who have been paying higher prices than they might have because fewer and fewer acres are planted in wheat. Without the benefits of the newer molecular techniques of genetic engineering...

Dr. Behzad Ghareyazie, who is considered as founder ofthe Modern Agricultural Biotechnology in Iran and the Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII) is re-appointed as the new Director of the Institute. He had served as the director of the same institute from 1999 to 2005.

GEN News Highlights- Philosophers once spoke of the Music of the Spheres, the idea that the movements of celestial bodies express an underlying logic, and that astronomical measurements and mathematical relationships correspond to so many “tones.” Today, another sort of harmony ...

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)- A new study, published in a special issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences brings together nine of the worlds most important economic modeling teams with a focus on agriculture to compare their results about the future of agriculture.

Scientists at Rothamsted Research have completed the field trials of biotech wheat on December 31, 2013. The scientists used biotech tools to genetically engineer wheat that produces high levels of aphid-repelling odor called (E)-β-farnesene...

Russia will be allowed to cultivate biotech crops in 2014, according to government decree no. 839. The decision will be implemented starting July 1, 2014. However, the registration of commercial biotech seeds will take more years.

For centuries, marshmallow plant (Althaea officinalis L.) has been used as a medicinal and ornamental plant. Valuable secondary products of metabolism have previously been identified in Agrobacterium rhizogenes-generated transgenic ‘hairy roots in this plant. Thus ...