New Zealand Gazette – 1998 – No. 101

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✨ Genetically Modified Organisms Field Trial



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successor on completion of the trial, or at any other time if requested by the IAG, or its successor;

  1. The applicant shall ensure that all staff involved in the operations and management of the trial are aware of the above conditions.

Trial start date
December 1997

Completion date
To be confirmed

Post harvest monitoring completion date
1 year from completion date

Trial Number
50

Project title
Field testing of peas (Pisum sativum L.) modified for resistance to alfalfa mosaic virus

Application approved
24 November 97, Postponed September 1998 planting date approved 9 March 1998

Approved trial period
September 1998–September 1999

Organism Common name
garden pea

Organism Scientific Name
Pisum sativum L.

Modified by:

  1. Gene for expression of the coat protein from alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV)
  2. Neomycin-phosphotransferase gene (NPT II) for kanamycin resistance.

Locations of field trial
Crop and Food Research, Lincoln

Institution / Company
New Zealand Institute for Crop and Food Research Ltd. (Crop & Food Research)

Institution / Company Contact(s)
Dr Gail Timmerman-Vaughan, Crop and Food Research, Lincoln

Conditions on approval

  1. The approval is for a single field trial to be performed from September 1998;

  2. Only persons authorised by the trial Manager shall be admitted to the trial site;

  3. The field trial will be isolated from other pea crops by 200m;

  4. The field trial will be segregated from the surrounding environment by buffer rows of non-transgenic peas;

  5. Bird-proof netting shall be erected over the genetically modified peas from flowering time;

  6. The peas shall be hand sown and hand harvested. The harvested plants shall be bundled, dried and threshed individually, on site, to ensure all peas produced are collected. The site will be inspected for dropped seeds. All resulting pea trash shall be burned on site;

  7. The trial site shall be left fallow for 1 year following harvest;

  8. Authorised Crop and Food Research staff will monitor the trial site for two years following harvest for the appearance of adventitious pea plants. The inspections shall be performed monthly for the first year. Any plants found will be hand



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Genetically Modified Organisms, Field Trial, Peas, Pisum sativum, Alfalfa Mosaic Virus Resistance, Crop and Food Research, Lincoln, Conditions, Approval
  • Gail Timmerman-Vaughan (Doctor), Contact for the trial