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Agriculture: A Glossary of Terms, Programs, and Laws

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Karnal bunt — A fungus disease of wheat that reduces yields and causes an unpalatable but harmless flavor in flour milled from infected kernels. Appearance of the disease in the United States in early 1996 resulted in the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) implementing an emergency quarantine, inspection, and certification program for wheat moving out of the infested areas, along with regulations on sanitizing machinery and storage facilities. Many foreign countries have a zero tolerance for karnal bunt in import shipments.
KCBT — Kansas City Board of Trade. www.kcbt.com/index.asp.
Killer gene — See Terminator seeds.
Kyoto Protocol — The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), agreed to by parties to the convention in 1997, establishes an agreed schedule for specified, legally binding reductions of greenhouse gas emissions by 38 developed countries. President Bush made the decision in 2001 that the United States would reject the Protocol and rely upon voluntary domestic measures. Since that time, the United States has declined to participate in negotiations related to the Protocol. The Protocol will take effect when not less than 55 countries, accounting for at least 55% of developed country greenhouse gas emissions for 1990, have ratified it. Until then, the terms of the Protocol are not binding on any country, and after ratification it will be binding only upon those who have ratified it. unfccc.int/essential_background/convention/items/2627.php.