GM corn could boost world grain production

Australian scientists have added a gene found in some plants to corn which provides natural immunity to fungi.

ABC News: 9 May 2011

TechNyou

If you are wondering who the big industry partner is in the story it is Pioneer who have teamed up with Hexima, which is a company set up by and spun out from research at Uni Queensland and La Trobe University.

I purposely left the headline the same as ABC had it as I found it interesting that it and the rest of the story were framed around the technological promise of this research. I understand it is a short news story focusing on the research, but usually there is still the “other” voice of opposition somewhere, which readers of the TechNyou blog will know annoys me even more because of the distortion it does to the science and confusion it has on the public trying to get a handle on the issues.

But for further elaboration on this research and story see the Hexima web link above or the following for info specific to their fungal resistance research and a more comprehensive piece on the ABC from last week.

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