1.   Biotechnology companies have engineered plants that are resistant to herbicides, making it possible to immerse a field in poisons that kill the weeds without affecting the crop.

2.   Akkadix, a California biotech company, plans to use bacteria-produced proteins and their cognate genes to genetically engineer crop plants protected against pathogens.

3.   Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. will established a subsidiary in the Philippines to design engineering plants.

4.   Most efforts at genetically engineering plants have involved only one gene.

5.   Secondly, engineer the plants to make the vaccine directly.

6.   The Interfax news agency said the Tushino engineering plant, which made the Buran, is now converting to consumer goods and produces everything from diapers to disposable syringes.