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Biotech / Medical : Monsanto Co. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dan Spillane who wrote (1146)	2/11/1999 1:15:00 PM
From: Anthony Wong	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2539

Dan, this post from TMF Monsanto thread is pretty exciting (if it turns out to be true): Monsanto has been collaborating on a research project at the U of Florida. There, researchers say they are on the verge of patenting a gene from pond scum that has the potential of boosting crop yields up to 30%. "Its another big step in the Green Revolution." says Robert Schmidt, plant molecular biologist with UF's Institute of Food and Ag. Sciences, who isolated the gene. The gene allows plants to use nitrogen far more efficiantly than crops like wheat do now. Preliminary trials show that the gene, inserted into wheat, yielded a larger, hardier plant that produced significantly higher yeilds of grain than conventional wheat given the same amount of fertilizer. A patent is to be issued sometime this Spring for the GDH gene - short for ammonium inducible glutamate dehydrogenase. If consistant 80 bushel per acre wheat yields can be obtained, wheat will once again find a place in the traditional corn -soybeans ratation in the mid-west. This will have long term beneficial effects for weed, insect, and pathogen control in US and world crop production. boards.fool.com