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– More Seeds For Doomsday Seed Vault
– Investors Behind Doomsday Seed Vault May Provide Clues to Its Purpose (Part 2):
The group of investors includes The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto Corporation, Syngenta Foundation, and the Government of Norway.
– African seed collection first to arrive in Norway on route to Arctic seed vault
– Scientists to capture DNA of trees worldwide for database
– Hungary to start the world’s first wild seed bank
– Experts prepare for lunar ‘Doomsday Ark’
– ‘Doomsday’ seed vault opens in Arctic
– Gene alarm on GM crops (Telegraph India, June 3 , 2011 ):
New Delhi, June 2: Indian scientists have discovered that the genetic modification of plants with a gene already used in crops worldwide may severely damage the plants, a surprising finding that may stir a debate on current crop biotechnology science.
The scientists at the University of Delhi have shown that inserting a bacterial gene that makes a protein named Cry1Ac into genomes of plants appears to cause developmental defects, growth retardation and sterility in the plants.