rss_green.aspxThe latest headlines and articles from Checkbiotech(c) 2007, Checkbiotech. All rights reserved.5Christopher S. RugaberThe global rise in food prices is giving political ammunition to opponents of the country's ethanol policy and creating some uncertainty for the burgeoning and heavily subsidized biofuels industry.http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=178555/9/2008G ChandrashekharMUMBAI, India - With trials of India´s first genetically modified (GM) food crop, Bt. Brinjal (insect-tolerant vegetable), progressing well, the anti-biotechnology lobby seems to have become active.http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=178655/9/2008Scientists at the University of Amsterdam have discovered how to keep one’s tomatoes from wilting – the answer lies at the molecular level. The story of how the plant beat the pathogen, and what it means for combating other plant diseases, is published May 9th in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens.http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=178515/9/2008RICHLAND, Wash. – Washington State University and the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory today dedicated a new building for the advancement of biomass research.http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=178525/9/2008Lindsay RiddellThe Energy Biosciences Institute named the first 49 projects that will share $20 million in funding for biofuels research this year.http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=178545/9/2008LAXENBURG, Austria - International food prices have risen at unprecedented rates due to below-normal harvests, growing cereal imports, and increasing use of crop land for biofuels. And climate change will seriously affect many poor and food insecure countries.http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=178565/9/2008Stan CoxWith hungry, angry people taking to the streets in countries on every continent -- from Morocco to Mexico and Pakistan to the Philippines, and at least 20 other nations -- the biofuel debate is clearly moving into new territory.http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=178575/9/2008WASHINGTON, D.C. - A senior World Bank official said yesterday that countries should not greatly increase biofuels production until there is more clarity about how much they have contributed to the global food price crisis.http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=178585/9/2008The increasing, unadvertised research and development of GMO in Napa winemaking is starting to ring alarm bells. http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=178595/9/2008Godofredo M. RoperosWhen I was in the California visiting a Filipino family in a farm area not far from San Diego a few years back, we noticed large tomatoes being used for the dishes the family cook was preparing for our lunch. http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=178605/9/2008