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Moderated conference on GMOs in the pipeline, hosted by the FAO Biotechnology Forum in 2012

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Mon, 3 Dec 2012 18:53:15 +0100
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I am Maria Jose Amstalden Sampaio, from the Brazilian Agriculture Research Corporation (Embrapa), Brazil and as a member of Embrapa's International Relations Secretariat would like to submit a short summary with some information about GM-plants being developed by Embrapa as a contribution to the conference.



At Embrapa, in Brazil, in partnership with Japanese institutions, genetic engineering strategies for drought and heat tolerance are being tested in soybean, cotton, sugarcane, maize and common beans. These strategies involve mainly the over-expression of transcription factors with different promoters. Soybean experiments started earlier and some of the constructs that demonstrated promising results under controlled conditions (greenhouse and growth chambers) are being tested in the field. The first results from the field tests were encouraging and new experiments are scheduled to take place in different agricultural regions of Brazil. The complexity involved in abiotic stress tolerance recommends careful "proof of concept" under field conditions since survival in experimental pots in the laboratory or in the greenhouse does not ensure gains in terms of yield maintenance during abiotic stress events such as drought or heat. Initial field experiments for sugarcane are scheduled to start in 2014.



This follows previous projects in which Embrapa developed two other GM crops – a soybean with tolerance to herbicides of the imidazolinone group and a common beans with resistance to golden mosaic virus. The soybean was developed as a result of a public-private partnership with BASF while the common beans was solely developed by Embrapa. 



Maria José Sampaio

Embrapa

Sain Parque Rural Final 

W/3 Norte Final

70770  Brasilia, D.F.

Brazil

e-mail: zeze.sampaio (at) embrapa.br



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