Mr. Zhang Laiwu, Vice Minister of Science and Technology of People Republic of China, announced at a news conference held by the State Council Information Office that China will take ten measures to promote the transformation from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture

Plastid transcription is mediated by two distinct types of RNA polymerases (RNAPs), bacterial-type RNAP (PEP) and phage-type RNAP (NEP). Recent genomic and proteomic studies revealed that higher plants have lost most prokaryotic transcription regulators and have acquired eukaryotic-type proteins during plant evolution. However, in vivo dynamics of chloroplast RNA polymerases and eukaryotic-type plastid nucleoid proteins have not been directly characterized experimentally

Amyris, under a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant, successfully processed the improved sweet sorghum hybrids from energy crop company Ceres, Inc. The sweet sorghum hybrids from Ceres undergo a process of extraction of juice from the stem. Then this juice is concentrated into sugar syrup, after which it is brought to Amyris' pilot facility in California and converted into its trademarked product, Biofene.

• - Prof Bùi chí Bửu leaving for Belgium from 17 to 22 April 2012 at Gembloux Bio Tech, Liege University.
• - Dr Lã văn Kính, Dr Vương nam Trung and Mr Đoàn Vĩnh leaving for Canada, USA form April 26 to May 10, 2012;

Delegation from Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) through cooperation project on “Germplasm exchange and production promoting on fruit crops between Vietnam and Taiwan” including three scientists leaded by Dr Shyi-Kuan Ou - Senior Horticulturist and Director of Crop Science Division

1. Dr Lã văn Kính: “Overview on impacts of green house gas emission by livestock production”
2. Dr Phạm hồ Hải: “Approaches how to measure the green house gas emission”

         Truly, this is an inconvenience divergence of more and more people depending on less and less arable land, pasture land, and forest from which they must obtain food and other vital resources. The new decade will have broad and strong interest in and concern about agriculture to help Vietnam become an industrialized country from agro-based systems.