The July 2005 newsletter (nr. 65) from the Insect Pest Control Section of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture and the FAO/IAEA Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratory is now available. The newsletter, issued twice a year, gives an overview of activities of the Section, which include research into the application of molecular biology for the development of modified strains of insects for future pest control applications. The 31-page newsletter includes, inter alia, a short report from the 2nd FAO/IAEA International Conference on "Area-wide control of insect pests: Integrating the sterile insect and related nuclear and other techniques, held on 9-13 May 2005 in Vienna, Austria, where the potential role of modern biotechnology, including transgenic crops and insects, in area-wide insect pest control applications was also debated. See http://www.iaea.org/programmes/nafa/d4/public/ipc-nl-65.pdf (1.5 MB) or contact [email protected] to subscribe to the newsletter.

06/09/2005