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Grid
Ref
Grid references, four number refs will be updated to six number
refs when information is available
Farm Address
Grouped by county. Addresses of farms hosting test sites are
no longer made public, only the parish names are supplied. Over time we
hope to fill in the addresses. If you can help with this please email us.
Company
Aventis= formerly known as AgrEvo. AgrEvo's German parent
company Hoescht have merged with Rhone-Poulenc to create Aventis.
Advanta= Seed company owned by Astra-Zeneca
Adv. Tech= Advanced Technologies, based in Cambridge
SAC= Scottish Agricultural College
NIAB= National Institute of Agricultural Botany
IACR= Institute of Arable Crop Research
IVEM= Oxford University's Institute of Virology & Environmental
Microbiology.
SCRI = Scottish Crop Research Institute
GMO Ref
quote this reference when in communication with the government's Biotech Unit; there is a dossier of information available on each of
these tests from them.
Crop
WOSR= Winter oil seed rape, SOSR= Spring oil
seed rape, S Beet= Sugar Beet, F Beet= Fodder
Beet, F Maize= Fodder Maize, S Wheat= Spring
Wheat.
Area
Maximum area of test crop in hectares.
* = National Seed List - site size is 'per variety'
**= government sponsored "Farm Scale Trials", all are the
split field design, half the field is GE and half is a non-GE, and there
is a non-GE border crop. Except where stated, these are up to 10 hectares
in size, more exact areas may be available soon.
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Traits
RR= "Roundup Ready" Resistant to Monsanto's patented
broad-spectrum herbicide, active ingredient glyphosate.
LL= "Liberty Link" Resistant to Aventis' patented broad-spectrum
herbicide glufosinate ammonium, sold as Liberty.
SL= Aventis' patented system for producing oil seed
rape hybrids by using genetically engineered male sterility.
SP= Astra-Zeneca's "switchable promoter" allows genes
to be switched on and off, dubbed "Traitor Technology".
SFR=Switchable fungal resistance genes, an application
of Traitor Technology
AB= GM Crops known to contain antibiotic resistance
marker genes.
DR =Disease Resistant
AS= Altered starch and sugar content.
AP= Altered proteins
HL= High Laurate acid content
RA= Resistant to Asulam herbicide.
NR= Resistance to nematodes, microscopic soil creatures.
CM= Cauliflower Mosiac Virus (CamV) used as a vector
in GE process.
PS= Oil seed rape engineered to have reduced pod shatter.
BV= This organism is a GE baculovirus, an insect attacking
virus made more deadly, tested for use as an insecticide (sprayed
on plants).
Status
Destroyed= Test site destroyed by public
Damaged= Test site damaged by public
Abandoned= Trial abandoned by company due
to crop failure or damage by public
(VCU)= National Seed Listing
Trial for Value for Cultivation and Use
(DUS)= National Seed Listing Trial for Distinctiveness,
Uniformity and Stability
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