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Article: FILIPINO SCIENTISTS DEVELOP GM PAPAYA.
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- AsiaPulse News
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- March 18, 2005
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MANILA, March 18 Asia Pulse - Filipino scientists have developed another genetically modified (GM) plant which is expected to be commercially released soon.
Dr. Bienvenido Pecson, president of the Biotechnology Coalition of the Philippines, said Filipino scientists led by Dr. Desiree Hautea, are now perfecting a variety of papaya that can resist ringspot disease.
"The technology is already available here, but we still have the field tests," he said.
If approved, this new papaya variety will be the second GM plant to be grown in the Philippines -- the first was the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn which was approved for commercialization in ...