Biotechnology Aids Plant Breeding
The major challenge presently facing breeders is to shorten the length of time required to develop new cultivars. This is where the use of biotechnology can assist. The objectives of plant breeding and improvement ... [... more]
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John Kao
John Kao is academic director of the Managing Innovation program at Stanford University. A former Harvard Business School professor, he is founder of several companies in the fields of biotechnology, film, and ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Jennifer Lanthier
Jennifer Lanthier is a biotechnology journalist who lives in Toronto, Canada, with her husband and three children. In her free time she coaches middle-school basketball and dreams of jump shots and sky hooks. The Mystery of the Martello Tower is ... [... more]
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Kathleen Hart
Kathleen Hart is a journalist who has been writing about health and the environment for more than sixteen years. She has covered agriculture and biotechnology for Food Chemical News and has reported on nuclear power ... [... more]
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Ronald Klatz
Ronald M. Klatz, M.D., D.O., is a leading authority on maximum human performance, advanced biotechnologies, anti-aging medicine, and aging-related diseases. He is president and cofounder of the American Academy of ... [... more]
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Rubicon To Enter Alliance With Hortresearch
"HortResearch and Rubicon have complementary capabilities, through combined knowledge of tree-based systems, plant physiology, cultivar development and biotechnology. In addition Rubicon has strong commercialisation capabilities." The ... [... more]
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Clark Not Told Of Us Objections To Gmo Stance
"But misrepresentation of the intent of that period has been a problem ... (there were suggestions) that because of the two-year constraint period no progress could be made with biotechnology in New Zealand. That is transparently nonsense." ... [... more]
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Botry-Zen Pleased With Performance Of Product
> WELLINGTON 22/04/2005 - Dunedin-based biotechnology firm Botry-Zen said today its preliminary field trials had shown its Botrytis cinerea spray to control a fruit-killing fungus had performed similar to or better than other chemical ... [... more]
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Dark Times For Greens As Ge Bill Passed
"We're supporting it because we view it as fundamental that we approach bio-technology in its widest sense with the best tools available, that we are cautious, but that we use best practice risk analysis," he said. The bill will allow the ... [... more]
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Fruits Of Biotechnology Struggle To Emerge
"There are numerous examples of biotech horticultural crops that have performed well in the laboratory and in field tests, but have never been brought to market or were removed from the market after commercialization," says Kent Bradford, ... [... more]
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Pm To Announce New Biotechnology Cash
Crown institutes HortResearch and Forest Research signalled last year that they would be keen to move researchers into the institute. The institute will be housed in a $15 million building planned to open in early 2007 on a site occupied by ... [... more]
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Deborah Kotz
Barry Sears Ph.D., is a widely published scientist and medical researcher who currently serves as the president of Eicotech Corporation, a biotechnology company. He lives in Swampscott, Massachusetts, with his wife, ... [... more]
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