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Biotechnology Links
Welcome to the Biotechnology links page. These links are provided as additional information to go along with the topics covered on my website. At the time of this posting, the links are all in working order, but if you come across one that doesn't work, please contact me at WWDD.
Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Biotechnology - Int'l Information Programs, U.S. State Dept.
Former President Clinton says the real issue in the debate over genetically modified foods is not the interests of agribusiness companies versus food safety or biodiversity, but rather how to get the best food to the largest number of people at the lowest possible price.
FAO: Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture
Biotech for the Third World. What can agricultural biotechnology offer developing countries? A lively discussion on everything from animal cloning to terminator technology and trees, livestock forumand fish.
Want to find out what federal researchers have learned about using bugs to clean up toxic waste, or see which agency funds the most research on stem cells? Access more than 100,000 full-text technical reports from several Federal agencies.
Weeds Can Inherit Long-lived Genes
U.S. scientists say crops can pass on to related weeds genetic traits that persist for six generations or more. It's inevitable that these and other fitness-related traits will make their way into weed populations.
Genetically engineered yeast will make it possible to substantially lower the cost of producing ethanol on a large scale.
Genetically Modified Organisms
Genetically Modified Christmas Tree Would Glow
Blue and red fluorescent proteins have been discovered. GM Xmas trees could grow multicolored lights.
Genetically Modified Trees Fight Dutch Elm Disease
In the United States, 70% of mature elms have been destroyed since 1930.
Understanding technology and how it is applied and regulated is essential if society as a whole is to benefit from technology while minimising adverse effects that many fear may arise.
Transgenic Crops Resource Guide
A transgenic crop plant contains a gene or genes which have been artificially inserted instead of the plant acquiring them through pollination. The inserted gene sequence (known as the transgene) may come from another unrelated plant, or from a completely different species: transgenic Bt corn, for example, which produces its own insecticide, contains a gene from a bacterium. Plants containing transgenes are often called genetically modified or GM crops, although in reality all crops have been genetically modified from their original wild state by domestication, selection and controlled breeding over long periods of time. On this web site we will use the term transgenic to describe a crop plant which has transgenes inserted.
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