b'A look at seed industry developments around the globe.Bangladesh instituteSTATUS AUSTRALIA Notably, IAEA has beenSTATUS SPAINhonored for mutationWeeds cost Australian farm- conferring awards in threeScientists in Spain might have ers more than $5 billion annu- categoriesOutstandingfound a way to convince the breeding, China reinstatesally, but researchers from theAchievement, Uniquepublic that GM products are canola imports fromUniversity of Adelaide and LaContribution of Womennot only safe for human and Trobe University have discov- Scientists to Mutationanimal consumption, but bring Canada, Abu Dhabisered a way to potentially stopBreeding and Young Scientisteconomic, environmental and government developingthem dead in their tracks. Awardamong memberhealth benefits, according We have identifiedstates every six to seven yearsto their risk-benefit analysis breeds better suited toherbicidal compounds thatfor outstanding contributionsresults.UAE. work by blocking the produc- to mutation breeding.The analysis established tion of the amino acid lysine,Source: The Daily Star public acceptance of GM which is essential for weedcrops boils down to two main growth, says lead researcher,factors: one, the belief that Tatiana Soares da Costa, aSTATUS CANADA GMOs are ineffective and Future Making Fellow at theChina has reinstated canolatwo, emotional concerns. University of Adelaides Waiteseed import access forThe group says limited data Research Institute.Richardson International andof long-term effects from Funding for this researchViterra, a May 18 statementconsuming GM crops, paired was provided by thefrom Global Affairs Canadawith the potential of toxicity, Australian Research Councilsaid. The statement notedallergies and gene transfer through a Discovery EarlyCanada has been advisedmake some people hesitant to Career Researcher AwardsChina has reinstated access toaccept GMOs are safe.Fellowship.its market for two CanadianTwo billion people are companies that Chinadeficient in at least one micro-Customs had suspended fromnutrient, nearly 820 million STATUS BANGLADESH exporting canola seed topeople are starving per year Bangladesh Institute ofChina since March 2019. and 26.4 percent of the popu-Nuclear Agriculture (BINA)We welcome this decisionlation are affected by some has been honored with theto remove the restrictionsdegree of food insecurity, \'Outstanding Achievementand immediately reinstate theaccording to a recent United Award\' by the Internationaltwo companies to allow themNations report.Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)to export Canadian canolaSpanish scientists believe for its outstanding contributionseeds, Mary Ng, minister oftheir analysis proves that only to mutation breeding. international trade, exportmolecular biology approaches BINA\'s Chief Scientificpromotion, small businessand genetic engineering tools Officer and Head of Plantand economic development,are realistic food shortage Breeding Departmentand Marie-Claude Bibeau,solutions for the worlds ever-Shamshunnahar Begum hasminister of agriculture andgrowing population.been honoured "Womenagri-food, said in the state- GM crops have been in Plant Mutation Breedingment. We will continue toproven to produce a higher Award" for her outstandingwork with Canadian canolacrop yield without addi-contributions to plant muta- farmers, businesses, export- tional land, lower farm costs, tion breeding and relateders, and their communitiesincrease farm profits and biotechnology. to defend their interests andmanufacture a greater abun-IAEA Director Generalsupport their success atdance of nutritious food says Rafael Mariano Grossi for- home and in markets abroad,The International Service for mally presented the award toincluding China. the Acquisition of Agribiotech Muhammad Abdul Muhith,Applications (ISAAA) in a ambassador of Bangladesh toquestion-and-answer session.Austria, in Vienna on Monday. GMOs have also helped 72/ SEEDWORLD.COMSEPTEMBER 2022'