Sentence examples for genetically modified maize from inspiring English sources

They admitted destroying six acres of genetically modified maize.

On February 14 , 1997 Austria prohibited the use of genetically modified maize.

The first drought-tolerant genetically modified maize is expected to be grown on the continent in 2017, it says.

Matsuoka, T. et al. A method of detecting recombinant DNAs from four lines of genetically modified maize.

Amflora and the three genetically modified maize varieties had already been approved by the European Food Safety Authority.

Governments in Italy, Austria and Luxembourg have banned their farmers from growing genetically modified maize.

In the decisions, the environment commissioner, Stavros Dimas, contends that the genetically modified corn, or maize could affect certain butterfly species, specifically the monarch, and other beneficial insects.

The issue first erupted in late 2001 when biologists David Quist and Ignacio Chapela of the University of California, Berkeley, reported in Nature that in 2000 they had detected genes from genetically modified (GM) maize in four corn cobs from Oaxaca in southern Mexico (ScienceNOW, 28 November 2001).

GM MON863 contents were also quantified relative to endogenous maize starch synthase IIb (zSSIIb) gene DNA, and the results were expressed as the percentage of genetically modified MON863 maize DNA relative to the total content of maize DNA.

The objective of this study was to examine the decomposition rate of genetically modified Bt maize residue compared to near isogenic non-Bt maize residue under different tillage and N rates in field and laboratory studies.

The occurrence of volunteer maize plants in subsequent crops as well as of feral maize plants in non-agricultural areas is an essential issue in risk assessments of genetically modified (GM) maize, with regard to possible contamination of natural habitats with GM material and as contribution to the total adventitious GM content of the non-GM final product.