dear usha/devinder, the 'knowledge initiative' in its true colours! the gm trade seems to be into a p r overdrive - witness the 2nd report..
*in solidarity,* *sudhir* ** *Delhi University's GM mustard gets process patent rights* ASHOK B SHARMA Posted online: Sunday , September 23, 2007 at 2304 hrs *New Delhi, Sep 23*The University of Delhi has been accorded process patent rights by the US Patent Office relating to the development of the transgenic mustard hybrid, DMH-1. "We have applied for two other process patent rights for developing the transgenic mustard seed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty. We expect to get these patent rights soon," said the Vice chancellor, Deepak Pental. He said that the transgenic mustard hybrid has pollination control mechanism. Demonstration trials followed by multi-locational field trials of DMH-1 were successfully conducted in 2005-06 and the results showed that DMH-1 had higher yield advantage over its check counterpart, Rohini. The University of Delhi (South Campus) has also developed another transgenic hybrid, DMH-11 which is also claimed to higher yield advantage over its check counterpart, Varuna. Pental further said : "The Supreme Court in its recent order has directed that the isolation distance between GM and non-GM crops field trials should be maintained at 200 metres. This has made difficult to conduct field trials." He said that private seed companies were, however, interested in commercialising the transgenic mustard hybrids. "But now we have allowed the public sector agencies, National Seeds Corporation and State Farms Corporation of India to produce seeds. The National Dairy Development Board and DOFCO are funding the production of seeds," he said. The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) had approved field trials of transgenic mustard, but the Supreme Court in response to a petition filed by Aruna Rodrigues and PV Satheesh banned field trials of GM crops on September 22, 2006. Thereafter the apex court made an exception and allowed field trials on transgenic mustard. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Delhi-Universitys-GM-mustard-gets-process-patent-rights/220278/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *India to benefit from second generation transgenic crops* ASHOK B SHARMA Posted online: Sunday , September 23, 2007 at 2308 hrs *New Delhi, Sep 23*India is slated to benefit from the second generation of transgenic crops, particularly the drought resistant ones, according to scientific affairs director of Monsanto-Singapore, Harvey Glick. Speaking to FE, Glick said : "We are developing second generation of transgenic crops which would be resistant to drought and would require half the intake of nitrogen for doubling its yield. We are ready to transfer this technology for the benefit of Indian farmers." This would also result in improved water use efficiency, he said. Monsanto has developed drought tolerant corn hybrids and the lead events showed yield improvement under drought stress in field trials over two years in North and South America. This drought resistant corn hybrid would be launched in US in 2012, he said Glick was recently in India at an international conference on biotechnology hosted by the apex industry body, FICCI. Glick said that the company's future plans were also for developing feed and bio-fuel crops. He said already transgenic soybean stacked with Roundup Ready traits for increased oil stability, less hydrogenation and trans fat has been launched. It has reduced linolenic acid to the extent of less than 3%. The transgenic soybean has increased Omega-3 fatty acid for health benefits "The Omega-3 in soybeans has longer shelf life. One acre of Omega-3 SDA soyean is equal in benefits derived from 13,000 salmon," he said and added that Monsanto was also developing high lysine corn (from 1000 ppm to 4000 ppm) for poultry feed. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/India-to-benefit-from-second-generation-transgenic-crops/220280/ # --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
