http://www.merid.org/fs-agbiotech/ en-us http://www.merid.org/fs-agbiotech/more.php?articleID=7836 The senior management of three UN bodies - the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the World Food Program (WFP) - met November 5 in Rome, Italy to determine how to work together to better serve the world's 1.02 billion hungry people, this press release reports. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.merid.org/fs-agbiotech/more.php?articleID=7835 The South African government's Executive Council for Genetically Modified Organisms has rejected an application by South Africa's Agricultural Research Council (ARC) for the approval of a Bt potato variety called SpuntaG2. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.merid.org/fs-agbiotech/more.php?articleID=7834 The Broad Institute's genome-sequencing center in the U.S. has sequenced the whole genome of the domestic horse, in collaboration with an international team of researchers. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.merid.org/fs-agbiotech/more.php?articleID=7833 The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) will hold an all-day stakeholder meeting to discuss its current biotechnology regulatory activities on Nov. 17, 2009 in Riverdale, Maryland in the U.S. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.merid.org/fs-agbiotech/more.php?articleID=7831 The cucumber genome has been sequenced by an international consortium led by Chinese and U.S. institutions. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.merid.org/fs-agbiotech/more.php?articleID=7832 Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich report that they have increased the iron content in polished rice six-fold, through the introduction of two new transgenes. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500