Plant genome and biotechnology development: report (to accompany H.R. 2051) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office)

Original publisher: [Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 2002]. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)50059418 Subject: Plant biotechnology -- United States. Excerpt: ... 15 language, but they do not alter the function or purpose of either bill. Additionally, the funding authorized in each bill is combined into one sum so that the NSF will have more flexibility to devote resources to these commitments as needed. This re-sults in authorized appropriations of $ 9 million for fiscal year 2002, $ 13.5 million for fiscal year 2003, and $ 13.5 million for fiscal year 2004. These two bills share a common goal of strengthening plant biotechnology re-search at the National Science Foundation, and I think they complement each other well as a single piece of legislation. I am confident the benefits realized through these Plant Genome Expression Centers and Plant Biotechnology Partnerships in the developing world will allow us to harness fundamental knowledge and solve many difficult challenges. Again, this is a bipartisan effort we can be proud of and I'm pleased to extending my support the bills as combined. Chairman S. This legislation that the Ranking Member and MITH I, Republicans, and Democrats, have worked on, I think moves us ahead in the area of biotechnology to probably increase the possi-bility, or the probability, that more of the world is going to support our biotech and genetic modification through the new technology. We have been concentrating on the development of products to reduce the price to farmers a little bit, and it might result in a minimal reduction in price to consumers. But the greater challenge is to produce products that help people, that try to minimize envi-ronmental damage to help better protect the environment, and, cer-tainly, the opportunities to feed a hungry world by producing the kind of products that can grow in those alkaline soils or grow under those climatic conditions, where the developing nations haven't been able to grow the kind of sufficient supp...