1.   Biotechnology companies like Monsanto and Novartis produce genetically engineered soybeans, tomatoes, squash and corn.

2.   But a spokesman suggests that farmers might avoid the problem by choosing a variety of engineered soybean that is better suited to hot conditions.

3.   Monsanto protested to the European Patent Office over a patent that gives an American biotechnology company, Agracetus Inc., sweeping rights to genetically engineered soybeans.

4.   So what if the FDA and the European Union have given their blessings to genetically engineered soybeans?

5.   The freighter Ideal Progress, when it docked last week in Hamburg, Germany, was carrying one of the first U.S. shiploads of genetically engineered soybeans.

6.   The genetically engineered soybeans in Harvest Burgers, designed to survive herbicide spraying that kills weeds, were the target of protests in Europe last year.

7.   Vencill examined the effects of heat on the engineered soybeans after farmers in the southern state alerted him to unexpected crop losses.

8.   Police arrested nine Greenpeace activists Tuesday after they blockaded a granary which they believed could be distributing genetically engineered soybeans.

9.   A researcher who discovered that the DNA pattern in genetically engineered soybeans differs from normal soybeans said Thursday that his findings are not a cause for concern.

10.   Market-watchers said investors deemed the decline irrational, largely dismissing earlier fears that abnormalities discovered in genetically engineered soybeans signaled trouble.