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Colombia planta el primer cultivo legal transgenico

El Consejo de Bioseguridad Colombiano ha concedido el primer permiso para plantar cultivos modificados geneticamente. El permiso viene del Centro Internacional de Agricultura tropical (CIAT), y el cultivo es arroz, modificado geneticamente para ser resistente a "hoja blance", un virus

endemico. De acuerdo con el jefe del Consejo,la proxima de las nueve solicitudes que hay ante el Consejo podria ser el maiz Bt de Monsanto.

Columbia puts first legal GM-crop in ground

Columbia's Biosafety Council has granted its first permit for planting a genetically modified crop in the ground. The permit went to the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), and the crop is rice, engineered for resistance to "hoja blance" (white leaf), an endemic virus.

According to the head of the Council, the next of nine applications before the body may be Monsanto's Bt cotton, pending a preliminary survey of insects in the suggested field trial area (Information Systems for Biotechnology 04.12.2000, cited from GENET 2-Plants 17.12.2000).