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Biosafety studies on GM cotton approved in Bolivia
February 17, 2012
Source: Crop Biotech Update
The Biosafety Clearing House of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in Bolivia has approved the conduct of biosafety studies of Bt cotton, a process necessary for eventual commercialization. Studies will be done on the following events: Monsanto's MON 531 with resistance to lepidopteran insects, and Bollgard / Cryx (event MON 15893 x MON 531) with resistance to lepidopteran insects and tolerance to the herbicide glyphosate.
Currently the only approved GM crop in Bolivia is RR soybean (event 40-3-2 by Monsanto). Bolivian farmers planted the crop on 900,000 hectares in 2011.
For more information on this development, email Dr. Alexander Grobman of PeruBiotec at
alexander.grobman@gmail.com
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