The report of the 3rd Session of the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture that took place on 26-28 October 2005 at FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy, is now available. One of the items on the agenda was "Guiding principles to address the possibility of unintended presence of transgenes in ex situ collections". See the report (document CGRFA/WG-PGR-3/05/REPORT, in English, French and Spanish, and soon in Arabic and Chinese) or contact [email protected] for more information.

10/04/2006