The Use of GM Crops in Developing Countries
Appendix 3: Examples of GM crops with relevance to developing countries (continue 3)
| Crop | Country | Improved trait | Comments | Stage |
| Potato | Mexico (26) | Viral resistance | – Cooperative project between the Centre for Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV), the ISAAA and the Rockefeller Foundation – The company Monsanto provided funding in earlier stages of research | F |
| Egypt (27) | Pest resistance | – Resistance to potato tuber moth – Project undertaken by AGERI (Egypt), Michigan State University (US), Central Research Institute for Food Crops (Indonesia), Vegetable and Ornamental Plant Institute (South Africa), and International Potato Center (Peru) – Four years of field trials have been completed | F | |
| US (28) | Biopharmaceutical | – Development of vaccine against rotavirus and E. coli, prevalent in many developing countries – Project being undertaken at Loma Linda University | L | |
| India (29) | Protein enhanced | – Varieties are in the final stage of testing | L | |
| Rice | US and India30 | Dwarfing | – Gene from Arabidopsis transferred into Basmati Rice – See case study 3 | L |
26 Monsanto (2001) Monsanto Welcomes U.N. Report on Biotech’s Benefits for Developing World. News Release July 9 2001.
Available: http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto/layout/media/01/07-09-01.asp. Accessed on: 16 Jan 2003.
27 Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project (2002) Biotechnology Research and Policy Activities of ABSP in Egypt: 1991-
2002. Available: http://www.iia.msu.edu/absp/egypt-absp.pdf. Accessed on: 29 May 2003.
28 Wong K (2001) Souped-Up Spuds Show Promise for Edible Vaccines, Scientific American. Available:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=00019658-ED97-1C5E-B882809EC588ED9F. Accessed on: 20 May
2003.
29 Coghlan A (2003) ‘Protato’ to feed India’s poor, New Scientist 177 (2376): 7.
30 Peng J et al. (1999) ‘Green revolution’ genes encode mutant gibberellin response modulators, Nature 400: 256–61.