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The oilseed rape has the most duplicated genome among all flowering plants or angiosperms. (Image source: Evelyn Simak/Wikimedia Commons)

Scientists from France’s INRA, Genoscope and University of Evry, in collaboration with international teams, have sequenced the reference genome of the oilseed rape

Russia-ASEAN trade turnover topped US$17.5bn in 2013. (Image source: Wong Mei Teng/sxc.hu)

Russia has called for increased agricultural product exports from the ASEAN region, according to local reports

The Ministry aims to cultivate Vietnam’s first GM crops by 2015 and have 30-50 per cent of the country’s farmland covered with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) by 2020. (Image source: Michael Dorausch/Flickr)

Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has granted licences to four genetically modified (GM) corn varieties to be used for both human consumption and animal feed

India boosted exports of the country’s palm oil. (Image source: Bill Barclay/Flickr)

Indonesia has witnessed highest exports of palm oil in July this year at 1.8mn metric tonnes after India boosted purchases

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