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	Rice with a vitamin and without patents
		Ingo Potrykus, when in 1980 became a professor of the Swiss Federal Technological Institute, had an idea of three billion people depending with their nutrition on rice, and he was especially worried for one tenth of them who suffer a lack of vitamin A resulting often in blindness.
		Potrykus had grown up in the post-war destroyed Germany and he was familiar with hunger quite well when he was a child.
		In spring 1999 when Ingo Potrykus celebrated his 65, a genetically modified "golden rice" was born - rice containing vitamin A not only in its green parts but also in endosperm of seeds, which is the starchy part we eat.
	www.biotrin.cz /enpages/rice.htm (557 words)

	Presentation of Dr. Ingo Potrykus July 21 in Providence
		Dr. Potrykus addresses problems difficult to solve with traditional techniques in the areas of plant disease and pest resistance, improved food quality, improved yield, improved exploitation of natural resources and improved biosafety.
		Potrykus has genetically modified rice (Golden Rice) to have higher levels of beta carotene that could address Vitamin A deficiencies of people in developing nations where rice is the staple of their daily diets.
		Potrykus' tremendous contributions to plant science and society have been recognized in science journals and in the general media.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2001-07/asop-pod071701.php (336 words)

	Golden Rice Goes Against The Grain
		Ingo Potrykus, 67, modified a rice plant to produce "Golden Rice," a yellowish-colored grain that contains beta carotene, one of the building blocks of vitamin A. The American Society of Plant Biologists, which is holding its annual conference here, presented Potrykus with its Leadership in Science Public Service award.
		Potrykus, a former professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, spent much of the 1990s trying to develop a better rice that would help alleviate some of the malnourishment suffered by those living in countries where rice is the main source of food.
		Potrykus said he remains focused on moving ahead with getting the rice in the hands of those who need it the most.
	www.monsanto.co.uk /news/ukshowlib.phtml?uid=5477 (789 words)

	ICSZ: Golden Rice Creator Speaks Out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Potrykus was a full time professor from 1987-1999 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich as well as the Institute of Plant Sciences.
		Potrykus says he was motivated to create Golden Rice because of the crisis of malnutrition in developing countries.
		Potrykus is positive his idea would be the answer to the suffering of VAD, yet whilst there are still disagreements, no definite decisions can be made.
	www.icsz.ch /web1/article.php?story=2004051311220037&mode=print (384 words)

	Promoter of Fraudulent Vitamin A Rice Wants Biotech Critics Put on Trial
		Potrykus has also openly stated that his PR promotion of golden rice is intended as a promotional for genetic engineering and as a means of swaying the public debate.
		Dr Potrykus, the man who invented a rice that has been genetically altered to carry vitamin A, said today it was up to those opposed to GM technology to justify the suffering they were inflicting on millions of people.
		Potrykus and his work remain highly controversial for two reasons: its PR exploitation, and the question of whether Golden Rice provides either the most effective or the most desirable solution to Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD).
	www.organicconsumers.org /ge/vitamin_a_rice.cfm (1901 words)

	Plant Biologist Ingo Potrykus On Greenpeace And The Opposition Against Genetic Engineering
		This genetically engineered crop is to solve one of the biggest nutrition problems in developing countries, namely iron and vitamin A deficiency which causes every year the death of one to two million children and blindness in hundreds of thousands of cases.
		Together with his partner Peter Beyer (University of Freiburg), Potrykus engineered a rice crop with substances that the body synthesises to vitamin A. Experts believe the 'Golden Rice' to be a wonder cure able to fight more diseases and sufferings than any other drug in the history of mankind, so Charles Arntzen of Cornell University.
		But it is intolerable in countries where it is a matter of life or death (...)' In the United States Potrykus, who appears in public with a modesty close to shyness, is feted as a visionary and the great hope of an unjustly maligned technology.
	www.agbioworld.org /biotech-info/topics/goldenrice/dasmag.html (4587 words)

	Intellectual Property OSU Joins New Biotech Rights Consortium
		The impetus for this consortium came form the work of Dr. Ingo Potrykus, a researcher at the Swiss Federal institute of Technology who describe his research travails in a recent lecture at Ohio State.
		Potrykus and his colleagues discovered a method of transplanting a gene to make vitamin A into rice plants, the main food grain for a large part of the world, which traditionally does not make the vitamin.
		Often, companies were not specifically opposed to Potrykus' work, only fearful that relaxing their grip on licenses might have adverse effects on other commercial projects.
	www.invention-protection.com /ip/publications/docs/OSU_Joins_New_Biotech_Rights_Consortium.html (424 words)

	Reason magazine
		Potrykus and his colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have created a variety of rice that makes beta-carotene, the precursor to vitamin A. The orange-yellow color of beta-carotene is what makes golden rice "golden."
		Partly because Potrykus is still wending his way through a legal maze of the more than 70 patents that are involved in creating golden rice.
		Potrykus is brokering a deal with leading international biotech companies that have agreed to license their technologies for free.
	www.reason.com /rb/rb120600.html (665 words)

	Checkbiotech.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		One of the most vigorous critics of genetic engineering critics is Ingo Potrykus, plant biologist and professor emeritus of the ETH, who has developed the so-called vitamin A rice in a greenhouse outside Zurich that would resist a hand grenade attack.
		Potrykus received hate mail and was threatened in case the rice would be released.
		Professor Potrykus, after 10 years of research you are holding the solution to one of the most pressing medical problems of humankind in your hands.
	www.checkbiotech.org /root/index.cfm?fuseaction=search&search=Interview&doc_id=1029&start=1 (4653 words)

	Greenpeace vs. Golden Rice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ingo Potrykus managed to genetically modify a strain of rice so that it retains a vitamin A and has been working tirelessly to begin tests with the rice.
		As Potrykus goes on to say, this is especially the case since golden rice will service in a complementary role to other efforts to fight vitamin A deficiency.
		Potrykus freely admits that just how much vitamin A is available to the human body is still an open issue and one that can only be resolved through small scale nutritional studies.
	www.overpopulation.com /articles/2001/000008.html (702 words)

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		The research results were announced by Professor Ingo Potrykus at the XVI International Botanical Congress where more than 4,000 scientists from 100 countries are meeting to discuss the latest results of research on plants for human survival and improved quality of life.
		Professor Potrykus was the principal investigator for the two separate research teams conducting the vitamin A and iron research.
		The research team at the Institute of Plant Sciences led by Dr. Potrykus focuses on rice, wheat, sorghum and cassava and is using genetic engineering to contribute to the stabilization and increase of yield and to improvements in food quality.
	www.whybiotech.com /html/con494.html (1785 words)

	ETHZ - Who's Who: Ingo Potrykus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ingo Potrykus - retired since April 1999 - was full Professor of Plant Sciences, specifically of Biotechnology of Plants, at the Institute of Plant Sciences of the ETH Zurich since June 1, 1987.
		Potrykus was born on December 5, 1933 in Hirschberg/Schlesien, Germany.
		Since his retirement Ingo Potrykus - as president of the international Humanitarian Golden Rice Board - is devoting his energy to guiding Golden Rice towards subsistance farmers accross the many hurdles of a GMO-crop.
	www.verw.ethz.ch /cgi-win/whoShow.exe/ws7?ID=683&lang=engl (293 words)

	Science Wire from the Exploratorium and Public Radio International
		Ingo Potrykus says none of that mattered in the lab.
		But then an interesting thing happened; Potrykus says one by one, the patent holders agreed to donate their intellectual property as long as the product was used for humanitarian purposes.
		Potrykus: I was hoping for it, but you couldn't expect it.
	www.exploratorium.edu /theworld/gm/rice.html (1081 words)

	[Pharm-policy] Justin Gillis on a dizzying web of patent problems
		The company's offer, announced at an agricultural conference in India, was welcomed by Ingo Potrykus, the emeritus professor at the Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland who used technology owned by Monsanto and others to invent golden rice.
		Potrykus, with support from other scientists, the Swiss government and the Rockefeller Foundation in New York, developed golden rice specifically to make a large dent in malnutrition.
		If the rice were intended for sale Potrykus could simply negotiate licenses to the patents, but that would likely make it far too expensive to give away in poor countries.
	lists.essential.org /pipermail/pharm-policy/2000-August/000301.html (611 words)

	Untitled Document
		Potrykus then began investigating the possibility of transgenic rice that could produce the nutrients needed by the malnourished people in developing countries (Potrykus, 2001).
		In 1992 Potrykus met with Peter Beyer, an expert on the biochemistry of the daffodil.
		Potrykus claims that “There were hundreds of scientific reasons why the introduction and coordinated function of these enzymes would not be expected to work and that it may cause problematic side effects” (Potrykus, 2001).
	www.bio.davidson.edu /people/kabernd/seminar/2004/GMevents/AC/Development.html (718 words)

	sciencelife:ETH Life - ETH Zurich's weekly web journal
		These deficiencies could be eliminated with "Golden Rice", a variety that ETH plant scientist Ingo Potrykus, professor emeritus since 1999, developed with the help of genetic technology.
		Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer (University of Freiburg i.
		In March 2004 Potrykus spoke at the University of the Vatican on the future of biotechnology.
	www.ethlife.ethz.ch /e/articles/sciencelife/golrice.html (1220 words)

	Transgenic Crops: An Introduction and Resource Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		According to Potrykus, the intent of golden rice is to supplement the diet with vitamin A, not provide 100% of the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA).
		Potrykus maintains the goal of golden rice having a beneficial effect on vitamin A-deficient people is realistic with experimental golden rice lines possibly already in the 20-40% RDA range.
		The institutions will be responsible for evaluating the need for golden rice, analyzing and comparing the pros and cons of alternative measures, and setting a framework for the implementation of 'golden rice' that best suits the needs of the areas the institutions serve.
	www.colostate.edu /programs/lifesciences/TransgenicCrops/hotrice.html (1391 words)

	syngenta cuts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Greenpeace in particular has chided Potrykus for embellishing the morbidity and mortality rates due to malnourishment in impoverished countries and exaggerating the nutritional content of golden rice.
		Though it was intended to be made available to impoverished countries four years ago, Potrykus has had to overcome several patent and proprietary problems as well as put his technology through further tests in order for its release.
		It is "ridiculous," "irresponsible," and "immoral," according to Potrykus, that an effort to alleviate the suffering of developing nations should be stifled by bureaucracy over the ethical dilemmas of bioengineering, especially while more poor go malnourished daily.
	www.checkbiotech.org /blocks/dsp_document.cfm?doc_id=4586 (602 words)

	The Future of Life: Ingo Potrykus, PhD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ingo Potrykus has improved food security in developing nations by creating and applying genetic engineering technology to crop plants.
		From 1987 to 1999, Dr. Potrykus was full Professor at the Institute of Plant Sciences of the ETH Zürich.
		Before that he spent several years at the Institute of Plant Physiology at the University of Hohenheim, was a research group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Genetics, and established plant genetic engineering at the Friedrich Miescher-Institute in Basel.
	www.thefutureoflife.com /speakers/potrykus.htm (250 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Mendel in the Kitchen: Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Food (2004)
		Nor was Potrykus trying to complement the contemporary dinner-plate aesthetics of the All Red potato, bred by Robert Lobitz in 1984, or the Graffiti cauliflower, introduced to American seed catalogs from Europe in 2002.
		Potrykus began his study of genes in the early 1970s, when he tried to turn a white petunia pink.
		Potrykus had created a “Frankenfood,” a source of “genetic pollution.” He had sold out to the multinational corporations.
	www.nap.edu /books/0309092051/html/1.html (7332 words)

	Department of State Washington File: Text: Monsanto Offers Patent Rights to Golden Rice
		Golden rice was developed by Ingo Potrykus, professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, with support from other scientists and the Rockefeller Foundation in New York.
		Potrykus said that if potential patent disputes and related issues involving other companies can be resolved, breeding stocks of golden rice could be sent to agricultural institutes around the world later this year.
		The grain known as "golden rice" was developed by Professor Ingo Potrykus, professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, and Dr. Peter Beyer, University of Freiburg, Germany, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation.
	usinfo.org /wf-archive/2000/000804/epf506.htm (1166 words)

	Potrykus Responds to Greenpeace's Criticism of 'Golden Rice'
		AGBIOVIEW: Potrykus Responds to Greenpeace's Criticism of 'Golden Rice' AgBioView Archive: Message #979 http://agbioview.listbot.com/cgi-bin/subscriber?Act=view_messageandlist_id=agbioviewandmsg_num=979andstart_num= Following is the statement from Prof.
		Ingo Potrykus , creator of the 'Golden Rice' in response to Greenpeace's Internet release "GENETICALLY ENGINEERED 'GOLDEN RICE' IS FOOL'S GOLD" from 9 February 2001 (see below for that text).
		Ingo Potrykus Im Stigler, 54 CH-4312 Magden, Switzerland ****************************** Statement from Greenpeace http://www.greenpeace.org GENETICALLY ENGINEERED 'GOLDEN RICE' IS FOOL'S GOLD 9 February 2001 Manila/Amsterdam: Genetically engineered "Golden Rice" containing provitamin A will not solve the problem of malnutrition in developing countries according to Greenpeace.
	plant-tc.coafes.umn.edu /listserv/2001/log0102/msg00091.html (1470 words)

	Mail-Out 74
		A team around Ingo Potrykus from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zuerich, constructed a transgenic rice containing Provitamin A. Three gene-constructs were inserted into the rice genom which complete the biochemical pathway needed for vitamin-A production in the rice grain.
		But there is another Ingo Potrykus: In former times he used to work at the Novartis-owned Research Institute FMI and he still has very close connections to this company.
		Furthermore, Potrykus admits himself that they filed a patent application for the transgenic rice ("before others do it") and that his group used some patented processes to construct the rice (possibly with himself as inventor).
	www.blauen-institut.ch /Tx/tO/to74.html (1732 words)

	GreenMoney Journal
		Ingo Potrykus was in his 50s and beginning to think of retirement.
		Potrykus, a full professor of plant sciences at the ETH Zurich, wanted to create a type of rice he hoped would diminish world hunger.
		Potrykus was jubilant, although it had been a long journey.
	www.greenmoneyjournal.com /article.mpl?newsletterid=11&articleid=90 (2923 words)

	Bestselling author Michael Fumento reports: "Golden Rice — A Golden Chance for the Underdeveloped World."
		Unfortunately, environmental groups fearful of the increased spread of genetically modified foods are fighting the introduction of golden rice on the grounds that it is a hoax and that the nutrients it provides are essentially worthless.
		Potrykus: I did not follow the advertisements of the industry, but it is difficult to overhype the value of golden rice.
		Potrykus: The golden rice that everybody is talking about is the first prototype, and we are, of course, continuously working on its improvement.
	www.fumento.com /goldenrice.html (1342 words)

	Renewed Golden Rice hype is propaganda for genetic engineering industry \| Greenpeace International
		(1) Ingo Potrykus during the seminar "Golden Rice, vitamin A and blindness - public responsibility and failure" at the Institut for Plant Science in Zurich.
		(2) Potrykus claimed during his speech that the new generation of Golden Rice can contain up to 40 micrograms pro-vitamin A per gram of GE rice, compared to 1,6 micrograms per gram of GE rice five years ago.
		These results will be, according to Potrykus, published in Nature Biotechnology in the beginning of April.
	www.greenpeace.org /international/press/releases/renewed-golden-rice-hype-is-pr (516 words)

	Anti-Biotech Forces Willing to Sacrifice Children for Anti-Science Views (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ingo Potrykus' amazing work with genetically modified rice has been mentioned on this site before (see Genetically Modified Rice Could Save Hundreds of Millions of Lives and Monsanto to Give Genetically Modified Rice Away).
		Working in Sweden, Potrykus genetically modified a strain of rice so that it produces beta carotene in its seeds.
		The New York Times recently ran a profile of Dr. Potrykus on the trials and travails he's had bringing the GM rice to poor people.
	www.overpopulation.com /articles/2000/000051.html (385 words)

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