The results of a 90-day rat feeding study with grain from MON 810 corn (YieldGard Cornborer -- YieldGard Cornborer is a registered trademark of Monsanto Technology, LLC) that is protected against feeding damage from corn and stalk boring lepidopteran insects are presented. Corn borer protection was accomplished through the introduction of cry1Ab coding sequences into the corn genome for in plan...

fundamentally changing the course of my life and teaching me everything I know about visualization, graphics, computer science research and THE FUTURE! It has been fun and I look forward to doing my PhD in the best possible place, the lack of oceans and illegality of 'on-top-of-Jeep' riding notwithstanding. and the rest of the computational biology team at Monsanto for bringing me onto your tea...

Glyphosate (isopropylamine salt of N-phosphonomethyl-glycine) is the active ingredient in Roundup, a herbicide manufactured by Monsanto. It is a broadspectrum postemergent used to control both perennial and annual weeds (Kent-Moor et al., 1983). Glyphosate is a potent inhibitor of the enzyme 3-enol‒pyruvylshikimate-5-phosphate synthase (EPSP synthase, EC 2.5.1.19), which is involved in the bios...

he electrochemical control of oxidation and reduction processes in organic and inorganic systems is an area of extensive research in both academia and industry. Electrochemical techniques are extremely useful in generating interesting species in unusual oxidation states, or for producing reactive intermediates (as, for example in the reductive dimerization of vinyl cyanide in the Monsanto manuf...

he United States Code provides that “a live human-made micro-organism is patentable,” and further provides for issuance of patents to persons who invent or discover new or useful “manufacture” or “composition of matter;” microorganisms constitute “composition of matter” or “manufacture” within meaning of the code. Thus, since the landmark 1980 Supreme Court case Diamond v. Chakrabarty, thousand...

In a study in the early 1990’s rats were fed genetically modified (GM) tomatoes. Well actually, the rats refused to eat them. They were force-fed. Several of the rats developed stomach lesions and seven out of forty died within two weeks. Scientists at the FDA who reviewed the study agreed that it did not provide a “demonstration of reasonable certainty of no harm.” In fact, agency scientists w...

A conceptual model is developed to evaluate the effect of Bt corn on risk. Results highlight the importance of distinguishing between a farmer’s marginal and aggregate risk effects and demonstrate that the effect of Bt corn on risk depends crucially on the price paid for the technology. Empirical results show that, depending on the price, Bt corn can be marginally risk increasing or decreasing ...

Better understanding (and so better control) of the stickiness phenomenon of drying sludge is critical for proper operation of a variety of industrial dryers, as is the case for the combined centrifuge-dryer system used on the Monsanto Europe site in Antwerp, Belgium. In this paper a binary logistic regression analysis is performed on a 4-years data base, which resulted in an empirical model fo...

The purpose of this study is to follow-up on ERP implementation after five years. The original study of ERP implementation in five organizations was accomplished in 2000 (Sumner, 2002). The purpose of the follow-up interviews in 2005 was to identify changes in ERP planning, design, and implementation strategy as these projects evolved over time. The organizations participating in these case stu...

To provide further insight into electronic and steric factors and to quantify their relative importance, we studied in detail the migratory CO insertion step for RhMe(CO)I2(L–L) systems (L–L = dppms (PPh2CH2P(S)Ph2) or dppe (PPh2CH2CH2PPh2)), Monsanto catalysts and some electronically unsymmetrical diphosphine model systems. The difference in the reaction rates of dppms and dppe has a clear ele...