• Capacity building, optimizing conditions for:
  • Facilities: transgenic analysis laboratory, greenhouse and protected experimental field for transgenic crops
  • Technical and skill improvement: transgene identification protocols, biosafety and food safe assessment, molecular biology, biochemical and genetic analysis (for example, transgene flowing via pollen dispersal…)
  • Training human resources: by short-term courses and advanced laboratory visits.
• Participating in regulatory document preparation on research and application of transgenic crops, guidelines for biosafety, food safety and environment.
• Step by step strengthening testing protocol and expanding the production of transgenic crops based on the modeling PRSV resistant papaya.

Scientific aspects:

• Increase in fourteen laboratory equipments for transgene analysis, including molecular, biosafety, food safety and environment at IBT, Hanoi
• Building a system of protected greenhouse for transgenic crop testing, satisfying the requirements of biosafety, environmental safety, in accordance with climatic conditions in Vietnam
• Building five methods (Physiology of antibiotic resistance test, biochemical – immunological analysis, molecular biological analysis, test transgenic crops in greenhouse and breeding to test transgenic crops) to identify and assessment of transgenic crops from the laboratory scale to greenhouse for those crops such as rice, cotton, papaya with resistance transgene of deep, drought, salinity…
• Building the model of conducting field trails, such as transgenic papaya
• Received and evaluated GMO of rice which is grown on Vietnam rice-growing plains for companies (Generic, Harpoon) before being exported abroad, and the foreign accepted
• Training qualified human resources for testing and evaluation of transgenic plants as well as the deployment of field trials of transgenic crops to ensure biosafety and the environmental safety
• Participate in the formulation of legal documents on the research and application of transgenic plants; the guidelines review biosafety, food safety and environmental safety of transgenic crops. Organization of the 01 seminars and 01 workshops on issues related to the application of transgenic plants.

Applicable  results: After six years of implementation, the project have had many practically applications, specially the project’s equipment, methods of transgenic plants analysis can be used for biosafety and food safety analysis and evaluation of transgenic products which is created or imported into Vietnam before using in the market.

• Scientific papers in referred journals (list):

1. The lecture of GMO training
2. Chu Hoang Ha, Nguyen Minh Hung, Bui Chi Lăng, Le Tran Binh (2004) Sequence varieties in the coat protein gene of papaya ringspot virus isolates from different locations in Vietnam. Journal of Biotechnology 2(4): 451-459.
3. Do Xuan Dong, Nguyen Hong Chau, Le Tran Binh (2005) Resistance tests of cry1A(c) transgenic rice lines against yellow stem borer (Scirpophaga incertulas). Issues of Basic research in Life Sciences, Hanoi Medical University , 03.10.2005. 1191-1193.
4. Le Quynh Lien, Lam Dai Nhan, Dinh Thi Phong, Le Thi Muoi, Le Tran Binh (2003) An efficient protocol for plant regeneration in papaya (Carica papaya L.) via multi-shoot induction, Journal of Biotechnology 1(3): 355-362.
5. Le Tran Binh (2008) The development of transgenic plants technology in Vietnam. Publisher of Science and technology Vietnam. Monographs.
6. Nguyen Minh Hung, Chu Hoang Ha, Le Tran Binh (2006) An efficient protocol for papaya (Carica papaya L.) regeneration via somatic embryogenesis induction. Journal of Biotechnology 4(2): 233-239.
7. Nguyen Thi Hong Chau, Nguyen Phuong Thao, Le Tran Binh, Le Thi Muoi (2003) Transformation of an Indica rice cultivar C71 via Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Journal of Biotechnology 1(2): 219-226.
8. Tran Hong Ha, Le Tran Binh, Le Thi Thu Hien, Nong Văn Hai, Le Thanh Binh and Hoang Thanh Nhan (2005) Biosafety: Evaluation and risk management of genetically modified organisms. Publisher of Labor and Social Hanoi. Monographs.
9. The collection of workshop reports "The new trends in plant science." Dai Lai, Vinh Phuc, 14-15/4/2008.

• Technological products (describe in details: technical characteristics, place): The project had built five analysis methods (Physiology of antibiotic resistance test, biochemical – immunological analysis, molecular biological analysis, test transgenic crops in greenhouse and breeding to test transgenic crops) to identify and assessment of transgenic crops from the laboratory scale to greenhouse for those crops such as rice, cotton, papaya with resistance transgenes of deep, drought, salinity…
• Other products (if applicable):

1. Greenhouse, garden for grow transgenic plants
2. Transgenic papaya lines
3. Fourteen devices

Experimental Station in Co Nhue, Tu Liem, Ha noi; Phu tho and Tam dao, Vinh Phuc.

• The project have continued funding support in order to application deployment model testing transgenic papaya field in subjects other transgenic crops such as rice, insect resistant transgenic cotton and assess the environmental safety.
• We are clue of transgenic plants analysis and evaluation when the managing agency may request.
• After the acceptance of ministerial-level, the devices and greenhouses are converted into fixed assets and are managed by Institute of Biotechnology.