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Article: Filipino scientists hope to release GM sweet potato in 2011.
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- Philippines News Agency
- Article date:
- May 28, 2009
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MANILA, May 28 (PNA) -- Scientists are delving deeper in producing more high value crops, this time genetically-modified sweet potatoes, in anticipation of bigger market demand attributed to increasing population and emerging innovations done by the food industry. Scientists from the Visayas State University (VSU) and the University of the Philippines Los Banos Institute of Plant Breeding (UPLB-IPB) are now working on the development of virus resistant sweet potato (VRSP) through Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, which is set for release in 2011. "Currently, we already have our gene of construct for the VRSP, and it is being validated. The transformation and tissue ...