Release sites in the UK

Grid Ref
Grid references, four number refs will be updated to six number
refs when information is available
Farm Address
Grouped by county from North to South. Addresses of farms
hosting test sites are no longer made public, only the parish names are
supplied. However, we have been able to work out most addresses because
GMO’s have been tested at these farms in previous years. Sites where farms
addresses are unknown are marked with a “?” and parish name
is given. (note: Farms that are research facilities such as SAC, NIAB,
IACR, PBI and Headley Hall have multiple test plots of non-GE crops).

Company
Aventis= formerly known as AgrEvo. AgrEvo’s German parent
company Hoescht have merged with Rhone-Poulenc to create Aventis.
Advanta= Seed company
owned by Astra-Zeneca
Adv. Tech= Advanced Technologies, based in Cambridge
SAC= Scottish Agricultural College
NIAB= National Institute of Agricultural Botany
IACR= Institute of Arable Crop Research
IVEM= Oxford University’s Institute of Virology & Environmental
Microbiology.
GMO Ref
quote this reference when in communication with the government’s
Biotech Unit; there is a dossier of information available on each of these
tests from them.
Crop
WOSR= Winter oil seed rape, SOSR= Spring oil
seed rape, S Beet= Sugar Beet, F Beet= Fodder
Beet, F Maize= Fodder Maize, S Wheat= Spring
Wheat.

Area
Maximum area of test crop in hectares.
* = National Seed List
tests
** =government sponsored “Farm Scale Trials”,
all are the split field design, half the field is GE and half is a non-GE,
and there is a non-GE border crop. Except where stated, these are up to
10 hectares in size, more exact areas may be available soon.
Traits
RR= “Roundup Ready” Resistant to Monsanto’s patented
broad-spectrum herbicide, active ingredient glyphosate.
LL= “Liberty Link” Resistant to Aventis’ patented
broad-spectrum herbicide glufosinate ammonium, sold as Liberty.
SL= Aventis’ patented system for producing oil seed rape
hybrids by using genetically engineered male sterility.
SP= Astra-Zeneca’s “switchable promoter” allows
genes to be switched on and off, dubbed Traitor Technology.
SFR=Swichable fungal resistance genes, an application of
Traitor Technology
AB= Tests definitely known to contain antibiotic resistance
marker genes.
AS= Altered starch and sugar content.
AP= Altered proteins.
RA= Resistant to Asulam herbicide.
NR= Resistance to nematodes, microscopic soil creatures.

CM= Cauliflower Mosiac Virus (CamV) used as a vector in
GE process.
PS= Oil seed rape engineered to have reduced pod shatter.
BV= This organism is a GE baculovirus, an insect attacking
virus made more deadly, tested for use as an insecticide (sprayed on plants).

Status
Destroyed= Test site destroyed by public
Damaged= Test site damaged by public

TL 46 50
TL 46 51

TM 04 97