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...growth patterns of plants and tell them when to ripen, drop their fruit or prepare for the onset of winter, also have potential for increasing production. Thompson seedless grapes are routinely sprayed with a substance called gibberellic acid, which promotes cell growth and helps produce plumper fruit. A Monsanto product called Polaris is being used experimentally to increase sugar production: sprayed on fields, the chemical enhances the ripening of sugar canes. This, it is believed, boosts their sucrose content and may raise their yield of raw sugar by as much as 10%. Researchers are also looking into ways of using...
...Plants are beautifully designed for reproduction," says Richard Mahoney, "but their efficiency as providers of food is just lousy. They never had any intention of feeding humanity." Yet Mahoney, chief of Monsanto Co.'s agricultural products division, and other plant biologists around the globe are all too aware that the world's burgeoning population is ultimately dependent on plants for food. Their solution: to lend nature a hand by 1) finding or creating new plants that yield more food faster, harvest easier and better resist insects, diseases and climatic extremes or 2) by manipulating existing plants into more...
...Harvard doctors using part of a $23 million grant from the Monsanto Chemical Co. report they've made no progress toward a cancer cure. "However," says Dr. Judah Folkman, "we've discovered a great aerosol oven cleaner...
Princeton's new industrial park venture raises the question of just how closely education and research facilities should ally themselves with private, profit-oriented companies even more clearly than the joint program announced last year between Harvard and the Monsanto Corporation...
...protein that malignant tissue releases, instructing neighboring tissue to supply the budding tumor with a blood supply. Other pathologic conditions, as well as cancers, depend on the obedience of the victim in setting up an arterial supply to the lesion, or disease focus. What doctors speculate Monsanto is investing in is an agent or antibody that could block the action of the TAF protein. Such a pharmaceutical could be administered systematically upon diagnosis of a primary tumor, and the presence of the anti-TAF might insure that secondary and hidden tumor formations in other parts of the body would never...