Melinda SmaleMichigan State UniversityPatricia ZambranoInternational Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)Rodrigo Paz-YbarnegarayFundación Valles, CochabambaWilly Fernández-MontañoIndependent Consultant The Bolivian National Constitution of 2009 prohibits the commercialization of genetically modified organisms, but the decree permitting the unique event of glyphosate resistance was enacted earlier. Herbicide-tolerant…
Andrew P. Griffith, James A. Larson, Burton C. English, and Dan L. McLemoreUniversity of Tennessee The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 has prompted the development of renewable energy. The research objective was to determine what contracting terms provide sufficient incentives…
Michele C. Marra, Nicholas E. Piggott, and Barry K. GoodwinNorth Carolina State University Recently, one type of corn rootworm has developed resistance to a single strain of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) that is genetically engineered into corn seed. This resistance development has occurred…
Maria de Fátima QuedasInstituto Politécnico de Santarém, PortugalPaula Cruz de CarvalhoPortuguese Ministry of Agriculture Portugal is one of the few European Union countries that experience the “coexistence” of a coexistence legal framework with a regular coexistence practice. Since 2005, Bt maize crops…
Karinne LudlowMonash University, Australia Australia, Canada, and the United States all allow GM crops to be released into the open environment. In all three jurisdictions, non-adopters of GM crops claim they can no longer choose to be non-adopters. The issue of whether…
Camille D. Ryan and Stuart J. SmythUniversity of Saskatchewan Triffid is the name given to a genetically modified (GM) variety of flaxseed that was developed in the late 1980s at the University of Saskatchewan’s Crop Development Centre. The variety was designed to…
Hugh J. BeckieResearch Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), SaskatoonSuzanne I. WarwickResearch Centre, AAFC, OttawaLinda M. HallUniversity of Alberta, EdmontonK. Neil HarkerResearch Centre, AAFC, Lacombe Crop intraspecific pollen-mediated gene flow (PMGF) can be scale-dependent. A study was conducted in western Canada to…
GruberUniversity of Hohenheim, GermanyAlexandra Hüsken and Antje Dietz-PfeilstetterJulius Kuehn-Institute, GermanyChristian MöllersGeorg-August-University Göttingen, GermanyErnst Albrecht Weber and Falko StockmannUniversity of Hohenheim, GermanyHeinrich ThöleJulius Kuehn-Institute, GermanyJörg SchatzkiGeorg-August-University Göttingen, GermanyKerstin DowideitJulius Kuehn-Institute, GermanyMichel RenardINRA, FranceHeiko C. BeckerGeorg-August-University Göttingen, GermanyJoachim SchiemannJulius Kuehn-Institute, GermanyWilhelm ClaupeinUniversity of Hohenheim,…
Rene C. Van AckerUniversity of Guelph The intraspecific movement of novel traits in agriculture involves a metapopulation that includes cropped, volunteer and feral subpopulations as well as a latent population comprised of any viable seed anywhere within the agro-ecosystem and agricultural supply…
Rosalie McCauley, Michael Davies, and Anita WyntjeDepartment of Agriculture and Food of Western Australia This article presents a review and analysis of the process of commercial adoption of genetically modified (GM) canola in Western Australia with the aim of providing information to…
