Study: How GMOs and crop gene editing can increase genetic diversity and help contain climate change

Study: How GMOs and crop gene editing can increase genetic diversity and help contain climate change

Helen Curry, Sarah Garland | PLOS Biology | 
In this essay, we explore the potential of crop biotechnology to contribute to this diversification, especially in industrialized systems, by ...
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Viewpoint: From GMOs to vaccines to climate change, we need to challenge anti-science activism in the 2020s

Peter Hotez | PLOS Biology | 
The last decade was remarkable for a rise in antiscience activities, especially in the areas of climate change, air pollution, ...
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Microbiomes could help plants grow, resist disease and make agriculture more sustainable

Posy Busby et al. | PLOS Biology | 
Feeding a growing world population amidst climate change requires optimizing the reliability, resource use, and environmental impacts of food production ...
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Bee-apocalypse update: Honeybee deaths linked to gut microbe-altering antibiotic

[Editor's note: Kasie Raymann, Zach Shaffer, and Nancy Moran are researchers in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University ...

GM debate distracts from urgent need to address food security and sustainability

Ottoline Leyser | PLOS Biology | 
Once again, there are calls to reopen the debate on genetically modified (GM) crops. I find these calls frustrating and ...
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