Article: Thai government admits spread of GM papaya

Article: GM papaya trees fallen down in Thailand
Xinhua News Agency;  September 16, 2004 ;     577 words ...GM papaya trees fallen down in Thailand BANGKOK ... the GM plants. The clearance of the GM papaya trees was the latest move adopted by ... Following continuous report of the leak of GM papaya from experiment to common farms, the ...

Article: Greenpeace asks Thailand for strict ways of destroying GM ...
Xinhua News Agency;  September 17, 2004 ;     561 words ... ... Thailand for strict ways of destroying GM papaya BANGKOK, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Greenpeace ... Thursday that genetically modified (GM) papaya might spring back to life in Thailand ... Bangkok Post as saying. Some 1,000 GM papaya trees were chopped down and buried in ...

Article: TN Agri Varsity plans to develop GM papaya seed by ...
PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.;  October 23, 2007 ;     609 words ...TN Agri Varsity plans to develop GM papaya seed by 2011 New Delhi, Oct 23 (PTI ... seed major Monsanto for developing a GM papaya seed, resistant to Ring Spot Virus ... out estimates of the price at which the GM papaya seeds would be sold to farmers. They ...

Article: GM papaya hints at changing attitudes
China Daily;  February 7, 2007 ;     428 words ... ... commercialization of genetically modified (GM) papaya in China late last year indicates that ... commercialization in the past eight years. GM papaya is resistant to the papaya ring spot ... seriously threatened the crop in China. "GM papaya is expected to bring significant benefits ...

Article: THAILAND: RIFT OVER GM PAPAYA SURFACES AT ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  November 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... east province of Khon Kaen planting GM papaya was the source of contamination for farms ... research station and began removing the GM papaya fruit from trees and securing them in ... minister," BioThai's Witoon told IPS. GM papaya is genetically engineered to be resistant ...

Article: Eat this! GM papaya from Monsanto
The Hindustan Times;  October 25, 2007 ;     662 words ... ... has been extensively used in Hawaii, it is important to note that there have been numerous incidences of organic and non-GM papaya crop getting contaminated with GM (genetically modified) papaya, which are right now being fought out in the courts ...

Article: FILIPINO SCIENTISTS DEVELOP GM PAPAYA.
AsiaPulse News;  March 18, 2005 ;     617 words ... ... Ringspot disease can cause severe damage to papaya. It was discovered in the country during the 1990s. The gene for the GM papaya was first developed in Hawaii and has been used by scientists of the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural ...