Thursday, June 14, 2007

Australia's Victoria To Be First to Trial Gene-Altered Wheat, Age Reports

(Bloomberg) -- Genetically modified drought-
resistant wheat will be planted at two Victorian farming sites
within weeks after the Federal regulator approved the first
Australian field trials of the crop, the Age said.

The crop will be grown on Department of Primary Industries'
research land at Horsham and Walpeup, Victoria state, the Age
said, citing Glenn Tong, chief executive of the Molecular Plant
Breeding Cooperative Research Center. The center is funding the
A$500,000 ($418,000) trials, the newspaper said.


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