Mercosur researchers create robot to identify drought and disease resistant soybeans

Monday, February 28th 2011 - 00:09 UTC

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A robot which categorizes soy bean plants according to their capacity to resist drought and make better use of the water resource has been developed by a bio-technology group of Mercosur researchers in Argentina, with European Union support. Read full article

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briton
financed by the EU .
beneficiaries of the patent include Argentine, Brazilian, Paraguayan and Uruguayan research groups .
enough said.
Feb 28th, 2011 - 12:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Martin_Fierro
“partially financed by the EU”

The EU is far more committed to investment in Mercosur than we thought.

Nice article for all those questioning the EU's intention to trade with Mercosur.

It's official, enough said. ;-)
Feb 28th, 2011 - 03:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard
Congrats. to all involved.

This is real collaborative stuff with the potential for real breakthroughs in strain development.
It is the sort of stuff ADAS in the UK, and CSIRO in Australia, have been good at for many years. The transfer of intellectual capital and skills ties MERCOSUR into the EU and world-wide agro-development, and this is good.

Whilst it can produce strains, that can be enhanced and maintained through GM methodologies, that can be patented - there is a crying need for the products in sub-saharan Africa and the Sahel.
In the interests of the world community it might be better to discount patent royalties and thereby help the (starving) third world.
Feb 28th, 2011 - 02:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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