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Genetically engineered crops in the pipeline
For your info - P. Dines
P.S. I do not see prudence and restraint in the face of the huge potential
risks of monkeying with the basis of life by beings that have an enormous
lack of knowledge of the true implications.... And we're going to _eat_
this stuff? When no long-term population studies have been done doing
that, individually or in combination... Have we learned nothing from the
past - like the Flavr Savr Tomato, or the
once-seen-as-a-miracle-now-as-a-demon DDT.....? How often must we go in,
seeing only the benefit for which we grasp, only to find that huge harm was
done to all - harm that _was completely predictable_, for those who were
willing to see... And sometimes we don't even get the benefit we seek
(i.e. we can can get short term gain, but not a long-term solution - ex. we
can get secondary pests and pest resistance, breeding superpests, leaving
us with a situation that was worse than before).
A prudent person, when faced with risk and huge unknowns, minimizes the
level of risk and the number harmed until more is known. Corporations seem
bent on doing the complete opposite - rushing in with broad-scale exposure
and complete infiltration into our food supply and genetic pool.....
Remember in looking at this list that each is a case of bringing together
gene components that would not ordinarily combine, often cross-species.
Also remember how much we don't know about doing that, that it's not as
scientific and "under control" as the proponents would like us to believe.
It's a gamble, and Life itself is at stake...
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From: Richard Wolfson, INTERNET:rwolfson@concentric.net
To: Patricia Dines, 73652,1202
To: richard@ottawa.com
Date: Fri, Apr 4, 1997, 11:18 AM
Subject: GE Crops in pipeline
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Here is a list of the genetic engineering crops in the United States, which
have recently applied for or been granted permits. Hundreds more field
tests on genetically engineered crops will be conducted under notification,
rather than applying for permits.
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WHAT S IN THE PIPELINE?
Spring is here and it s time to plant. In addition to the hundreds of
field tests that will be conducted under notification, permits have
been issued or are pending for dozens of transgenic crops listed below.
[Abbreviations: BNYVV, beet necrotic yellow vein virus; CMV, cucumber
mosaic virus; LMV, lettuce mosaic virus; PLRV, potato leaf roll
virus; PRSV, papaya ringspot virus; PVY, potato virus Y; SqMV, squash
mosaic virus; SrMV, sugarcane mosaic virus; TEV, tobacco etch virus;
TMV, tobacco mosaic virus; ToMoV, tomato mottle virus; TSWV, tomato
spotted wilt virus; WMV2, watermelon mosaic virus 2; ZYMV, zucchini
yellow mosaic virus.]
apple resistant to lepidopteran pests (Dry Creek, renewal pending);
having altered product quality (UC-Berkeley)
barley engineered to produce a thermostable protein (Washington State
University); expressing a marker gene (Coors, Brewing)
beet with a coat protein gene conferring resistance to BNYVV
(Betaseed); tolerant to phosphinothricin (AgrEvo; Betaseed);
glyphosate tolerant (Hilleshog; Monsanto)
belladonna carrying the hyoscamine 6 -hydroxylase gene for insect
resistance (U of Chicago)
creeping bentgrass modified with genes for Rhizoctonia solani and
Sclerotinia resistance or phosphinothricin herbicide tolerance
(Rutgers U)
chestnut trees resistant to chestnut blight (Connecticut Ag
Experiment Station)
cucumber with either coat proteins or unnamed genes for resistance to
CMV, PRSV, WMV2, and ZYMV (Seminis Vegetable Seeds)
eggplant engineered with a Bt CryIIIA gene for Colorado potato beetle
resistance (Rutgers U)
grape resistant to Lepidopteran pests and two species of nematodes
(UC-Kearney); sulfonylurea herbicide tolerant (DNA Plant Technology)
lettuce with coat protein for resistance to LMV (Seminis Vegetable Seed)
melon carrying coat protein genes for resistance to CMV, PRSV, SqMV,
WMV2, and ZYMV (Seminis Vegetable Seeds); resistant to CMV, WMV2, and
ZYMV (Harris Moran)
peanut resistant to lesser cornstalk borer, thanks to a CryIA(c) gene
(U of Georgia)
petunia with a product quality gene deemed confidential business
information (Monsanto, pending)
pepper resistant to CMV and TEV (Seminis Vegetable Seeds); fruit
ripening altered (DNA Plant Technology)
potato engineered for Coleopteran insect and PLRV resistance, with or
without PVY resistance (Monsanto); PLRV and PVY resistant (U of Idaho)
rapeseed resistant to post-harvest fungal disease or with increased
lysine level or with altered oil quality (Cargill); lepidopteran
resistant (U of Chicago); herbicide tolerant (AgrEvo)
rice made tolerant to imidazolinone (American Cyanamid) or
phosphinothricin (AgrEvo; Louisiana State U); producing
pharmaceutical proteins (Applied Phytologics)
squash resistant to CMV, PRSV, SqMV, WMV2, and sometimes ZYMV
(Seminis Vegetable Seeds)
strawberry with delayed ripening and resistance to Botrytis,
Sclerotinia, and Verticillium mediated by chitinase, glucanase, and
polygalacturonase inhibitor protein (DNA Plant Technology); resistant
to Botrytis, Colletotrichum, Phytophthora, and Pythium and 2,4-D
tolerant (Plant Science Research); with unnamed genes for altered
ripening and fungus resistance (Calgene)
sugarcane coat protein modified to resist SrMV (Texas A&M)
sunflowers resistant to CMV and TMV (Pioneer)
tobacco producing pharmaceutical proteins or with unspecified traits
conferred by genes deemed confidential business information
(Biosource)
tobacco mosaic virus engineered to produce pharmaceutical proteins
(Biosource)
tomato modified for delayed ripening and increased solids (Zeneca);
resistant to geminivirus (Seminis Vegetable Seeds); resistant to TSWV
(Rogers); resistant to ToMoV (U of Florida)
watermelon engineered for resistance to CMV, PRSV, WMV2, and ZYMV
(Seminis Vegetable Seeds)
wheat engineered with an unnamed gene for Fusarium resistance or
herbicide tolerance (Monsanto)
Pat Traynor
Information Systems for Biotechnology
traynor@nbiap.biochem.vt.edu
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Campaign to Ban Genetically Engineered Food
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