Monsanto May Commercialize Terminator

Upcoming UN meeting and new documents on Terminator seeds’ impacts on Indigenous peoples

New Efforts to Overturn CBD’s “de facto” Moratorium on Terminator Technology

New Patents on Terminator Granted in Europe and Canada

Item 1 Corporates gain control over nature’s seeds as the Terminator patent is granted Amsterdam, 25 October 2005 – Greenpeace today exposed details that the patent for the controversial “Terminator technology” was granted in […]

Insect resistance to Bt crops

Item 1 New Resistance Mechanism in Helicoverpa armigera Threatens Transgenic Crops Expressing Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ac Toxin APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, May 2005, p. 2558–2563. Vol. 71, No.5 Robin V. G […]

Bt Crops and Insect Resistance

Item 1 Executive summary Concurrent use of transgenic plants expressing a single and two Bacillus thuringiensis genes speeds insect adaptation to pyramided plants Jian-Zhou Zhao*†, Jun Cao‡, Hilda L. Collins*, Sarah L. […]