New Zealand Gazette – 1998 – No. 101

Page 2400

✨ GM Organism Approval Details



NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 101

2400

Completion date
October 1996

Post harvest monitoring completion date
31 October 1998

Trial Number
38

Project title
Production of hybrid and inbred maize of a European corn borer tolerant maize: nursery trial

Application approved
7 November 1995

Approved trial period
October-April 1995/96, 1996/97, 1997/98

Organism Common name
Maize

Organism Scientific Name
Zea mays

Modified by:

  1. CryIA(b) gene from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) for European Corn Borer tolerance
  2. Phosphinothricin acetyl transferase gene (bar) derived from Streptomyces hygroscopicus (conferring resistance to phosphinothricin herbicides)
  3. β-lactamase gene

Locations of field trial
Corson Grain Research Station, near Gisborne

Institution / Company
Corson Grain Ltd on behalf of Novartis (previously Ciba Geigy Ltd)

Institution / Company Contact(s)
N. Koevoet, Research and Production Manager

  1. The trial is limited to three consecutive seasons, commencing with the 1995/96 growing season;
  2. Only persons authorised by Neil Koevoet shall be admitted to the trial site;
  3. The timing of the field trial plantings shall result in a minimum temporal isolation buffer from non-transgenic crops of 14 days;
  4. If the temporal isolation buffer is to be breached, then bagging or removal of tassels to control pollen dispersal is required;
  5. The trial to be planted by hand and all seed shall be accounted for;
  6. Mature seeds from the field trial shall be hand harvested, dried, shelled, packaged at Corson’s Research station and shipped to Novartis facilities in France, or destroyed;
  7. For transfer to and from New Zealand the seeds shall be secured in labelled and sealed packages or containers;
  8. The trial site shall remain fallow for at least 60 days upon completion of the field trial;
  9. The trial site shall be monitored throughout the growing season following the trial, with any volunteer maize to be destroyed by incineration;
  10. Corson Grains shall supply written verification to the IAG that all seed released by the Ministry of Agriculture was planted, exported or destroyed;


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🏥 Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (Genetically Modified Organisms Approvals) Order 1998 (continued from previous page)

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
Genetically Modified Organisms, Approvals, Researcher approvals, Plant species, Containment categories
  • N. Koevoet, Research and Production Manager