Biotechnology

USDA Permit and Notification Resources:
The documents provided by the SBC in no way guarantee compliance to USDA regulations.

The following resources are samples of resources needed for growing transgenic crops at the UC Davis, Seed Biotechnology Center using tomato.  They are freely available to adapt to your specific crop and situation.

Sample Field Book for transgenic plants
USDA Regulation Presentation

Useful USDA links:

• Biotechnology Regulatory Services
• Notification Process
• Isolation Distances Table
• Biology of Crop Plants
  
• New! BRS User's Guide

USDA-APHIS input on RR Alfalfa
USDA-APHIS input for BQMS

Specialty Crops Regulatory Assistance (SCRA) - a collaborative, public-private effort to assist public and private-sector developers of biotechnology-derived specialty crops in their efforts to complete the complex US regulatory process for commercialization of biotechnology-derived crops.

GMObelus -Your portal to agricultraul biotechnology on the web

Information on the Cartagena Protocol

Public Research & Regulations Initiative

• Draft Guide for Notifications & Risk Assessments for Releases of GMO's
• Information on Genetic Use Restriction Technologies (GURTS)

Crop Life: Field Trial Compliance

• New Tools for Plant Breeding
• Biotechnology Tutorials Online
• Methods for Detection of Transgenic Plants
• Identity Preservation
• Genes/Traits/Plant Characteristics Plant Protection Against Diseases Plant Protection Against Insects Weed Control Biotechnology Environmental Stress Tolerance
• Convergence In Biotechnology Innovation: Case Studies and Implications for Regulation (pdf) University of Guelph, February 2006
• Inat'l Service for the Acquistion of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA)
• EuropaBio - see report on biotech crops and heath
  

Coexistence

• GM Crop Co-Existence in Perspective (SCIMAC)
• Peaceful Coexistence - Pew Report 2006
• Achieving peaceful coexistence with biotehcnology is a goal of UC program - ANR Report 2007
• Agricultural Biotechnology in California (ABC) Series - see the Fact Sheets
• Council for Agricultural Science and Techology (CAST)
  
  
  1. The Science and Regulation of Food from Genetically Engineered Animals
     
     
  • The Science and Regulation of Food from Genetically Engineered Animals (audio/slide)
    
    
  • Implications of Gene Flow in the Scale-up and Commercial Use of Biotechnology-derived Crops: Economic and Policy Considerations. (CAST)
    
    
  • Gene Flow in Alfalfa: Biology, Mitigation, and Potential Impact on Production. (CAST)