Organic Research Centre avvia la sperimantazione di commercializzazione di popolazioni di frumento

Launch of ORC Wakelyns Population at National Organic Combinable Crops (NOCC15)

The Organic Research Centre has pioneered an evolutionary breeding programme to produce a hugely diverse population of wheat suited to organic and low-input farming systems. This year, for the first time, ORC is marketing it as ORC Wakelyns Population.

Populations are genetically diverse. All plants are genetically distinct while all of those in standard pureline varieties are almost identical. This means that populations are better able to adapt to unpredictable environments, including weather and pest/disease pressures.

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OGM – Ordine del giorno pro ricerca OGM presentato in Senato

Riportiamo di seguito il testo dell’Odg presentato al Senato della Repubblica il 12 maggio 2015 a firma Cattaneo, Zanda, Paolo Romani, Schifani, De Biasi, Formigoni, Bianconi.

 

BOZZE DI STAMPA 12 maggio 2015 N. 2 – ANNESSO II

 SENATO DELLA REPUBBLICA

 XVII LEGISLATURA

 

Delega al Governo per il recepimento delle direttive europee e l’attuazione di altri atti dell’Unione europea – Legge di delegazione europea 2014 (1758)

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Apbrebes – Updates Special Issue, May 7, 2015

Special Issue, 7 May 2015

 

Editorial

 APBREBES Working Paper #1: Global, Profitable, Secret? DNA Fingerprints for Enforcement of UPOV’s Plant Variety Protection

 According to the UPOV Conventions, it is up to member states to provide for appropriate legal remedies for the effective enforcement of the Conventions. But UPOV member states are being expected to play a crucial role in providing expensive technical and administrative infrastructure, as well as legally questionable confidentiality arrangements, in order to enable already powerful seed companies to enforce royalty income on the basis of evidence from DNA fingerprints of suspected seeds or plant material.

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