Article: Biotechnology News: Briefs

The Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology (AIAST) based at Deakin, Australian Capital Territory, is calling for farmers to dismahr tie laws banning the growing of genetically modified (GM) cañóla in Australia. The plea was made by Claude Gauchat, AIAST national president, in a commentary appearing in a June 6 media release (netlink: www.aiast.com.au/pdf/Media%20Releases/mrJ20070606,pdf).

He urged Australian agriculture to embrace the "genomic age" as a vital tool to its future survival, noting that the current moratorium ? on; planting GM crops in all states except Queensland and the Northern Territory was seriously curtailing progress. Gauchat: noted that a complex ...

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