Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 25 January 2002:
Vol. 295. no. 5555, pp. 674 - 676
DOI: 10.1126/science.1067226
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Reports

Plant Biotechnology in China

Jikun Huang,1 Scott Rozelle,2* Carl Pray,3 Qinfang Wang4

A survey of China's plant biotechnologists shows that China is developing the largest plant biotechnology capacity outside of North America. The list of genetically modified plant technologies in trials, including rice, wheat, potatoes, and peanuts, is impressive and differs from those being worked on in other countries. Poor farmers in China are cultivating more area of genetically modified plants than are small farmers in any other developing country. A survey of agricultural producers in China demonstrates that Bacillus thuringiensis cotton adoption increases production efficiency and improves farmer health.

1 Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Building 917, Datun Road, Beijing 100101, China.
2 Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, USA.
3 Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Rutgers University, 55 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8520, USA.
4 Associate Professor, Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), 12 Zhongguancun Nandajie, Beijing 100081, China.
*   To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: rozelle{at}primal.ucdavis.edu

Read the Full Text


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Dynamically optimal strategies for managing the joint resistance of pests to Bt toxin and conventional pesticides in a developing country.
F. Qiao, J. Wilen, J. Huang, and S. Rozelle (2009)
Eur. Rev. Agric. Econ.
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Suppression of Cotton Bollworm in Multiple Crops in China in Areas with Bt Toxin-Containing Cotton.
K.-M. Wu, Y.-H. Lu, H.-Q. Feng, Y.-Y. Jiang, and J.-Z. Zhao (2008)
Science 321, 1676-1678
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Life sciences and biotechnology in China.
Z. Chen, H.-G. Wang, Z.-J. Wen, and Y. Wang (2007)
Phil Trans R Soc B 362, 947-957
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Modern Biotechnology as an Integral Supplement to Conventional Plant Breeding: The Prospects and Challenges.
P. P. Jauhar (2006)
Crop Sci. 46, 1841-1859
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Farm-scale evaluation of the impacts of transgenic cotton on biodiversity, pesticide use, and yield.
M. G. Cattaneo, C. Yafuso, C. Schmidt, C.-y. Huang, M. Rahman, C. Olson, C. Ellers-Kirk, B. J. Orr, S. E. Marsh, L. Antilla, et al. (2006)
PNAS 103, 7571-7576
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Farm-Level Economic Performance of Genetically Modified Cotton in Maharashtra, India.
R. Bennett, U. Kambhampati, S. Morse, and Y. Ismael (2006)
Appl. Econ. Perspect. Pol. 28, 59-71
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Science Policy and Agricultural Biotechnology in Canada.
R. Carew (2005)
Appl. Econ. Perspect. Pol. 27, 300-316
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Insect-Resistant GM Rice in Farmers' Fields: Assessing Productivity and Health Effects in China.
J. Huang, R. Hu, S. Rozelle, and C. Pray (2005)
Science 308, 688-690
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Who Owns Biodiversity, and How Should the Owners Be Compensated?.
P. Gepts (2004)
Plant Physiology 134, 1295-1307
   Full Text »    PDF »
Gene Flow from Cultivated Rice (Oryza sativa) to its Weedy and Wild Relatives.
L. J. CHEN, D. S. LEE, Z. P. SONG, H. S. SUH, and B.-R. LU (2004)
Ann. Bot. 93, 67-73
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Yield Effects of Genetically Modified Crops in Developing Countries.
M. Qaim and D. Zilberman (2003)
Science 299, 900-902
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Transgenic loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plants expressing a modified {delta}-endotoxin gene of Bacillus thuringiensis with enhanced resistance to Dendrolimus punctatus Walker and Crypyothelea formosicola Staud.
W. Tang and Y. Tian (2003)
J. Exp. Bot. 54, 835-844
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »


To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)