Rice with barley genes emits less greenhouse gas

Erik Stokstad | 
A new type of genetically modified (GM) rice might significantly lessen the impact of agriculture on the climate. The plant, ...
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GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

This past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
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GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

This past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
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GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

This past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
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GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

This past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
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GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

This past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
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Why regulators conclude glyphosate safe while IARC, alone, claims it could cause cancer?

Andrew Porterfield | 
Glyphosate joins apples, coffee, sunning and night shift work as an IARC "probable" carcinogen. But the real risk to humans ...
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House passes voluntary GMO labeling law as Senate girds for fight

Carey Gillam | 
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, July 23, passed a hotly debated measure that would set up a system ...
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Star Trek, synbio and sustainable food: Will Friends of the Earth and other activists block the future?

David Despain | 
Far as we are from instantaneous synthesis of food on command, advances in synbio and genetic engineering offer a glimpse ...

East African countries face harsh biosafety restrictions in expanding gene editing research

Lominda Afedraru | 
For scientists across the globe in agricultural value chain to counteract the upcoming challenges likely to be faced by factors ...

GM canola becoming popular in Australia as farmers see yields increasing

Alisha Fogden | 
Canola was once considered only useful as a break crop to clean-up weeds in paddocks, according to agronomist Greg Sefton, Cobram, ...
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Fraud or drift? USDA finds 43 percent of organic foods contain ‘prohibited’ substances

Andrew Porterfield | 
Pesticides have been found in nearly half of organic fields. Is this a case of accidental drift, or fraud? ...
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Talking Biotech: Kevin Folta on how farmers can communicate science effectively

Kevin Folta | 
Don't let Dr. Oz and others who know nothing about ag tell a farmer's story: Kevin Folta ...

As bugs become resistant to Bt maize in South Africa, new practices needed to delay resistence

Andrea Teagle | 
In the case of maize, the GM crops planted and consumed in South Africa are known as Bt-crops, so named ...

Chilean salmon industry aims to replace antibiotics with biotech bacteria

Erich Luening | 
In an effort to reduce the use of antibiotics in the Chilean salmon farming industry, researchers in the South American ...

After cancer assessment of farm chemicals, farmers still comfortable with using herbicides

Grant Gerlock | 
Farmers count on chemical herbicides to keep their fields weed-free. In the last few months though, scientists brought together by ...
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GM rice could address hunger, cut methane emissions 90%, fight climate change

It’s food for climate conscious consumers. A strain of rice has been genetically engineered to produce less methane. Rice agriculture ...

Democratic critics of voluntary GMO labeling bill launch attacks

Philip Brasher | 
Critics of a GMO regulation bill are proposing amendments that would add restrictions or exemptions to the legislation and allow ...

WTO members raise concerns over EU, China biotech restrictions

The World Trade Organization committee dealing with food safety, animal and plant health, formally known as the Committee on Sanitary ...

European experts say glyphosate cancer warning not grounded in science

Ian Johnston | 
It is described as the world’s safest pesticide, used so pervasively that it shows up in human breast milk and ...
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Kevin Folta debunks pay for play paper finding formaldehyde in GMOs

Kevin Folta | 
Let's visit the paper by Ayyadurai and Deonikar, published in Agricultural Sciences, a journal I've never heard of, and a ...
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How to scare people into supporting bad policy on bees and other pollinators

If you are a scientist with an agenda, nothing works better than cooking up a "modeling" study: junk in, junk ...

Kenyan farmers urge government to allow GMOs

Verenardo Meeme | 
Farmers in Kilifi county want the government to allow them access genetically modified (GM) planting materials to boost agricultural production ...

Saletan’s Slate on target expose of GMO fear mongering overstates corporate influence

Val Giddings | 
The title of William Saletan’s July 15 j’accuse in Slate, “Unhealthy Fixation” is spot on, but the subtitle really nails ...

Organic farming contributes to more greenhouse gas emissions, not less

Here’s some hard, responsibly farmed news to swallow: Big Organic isn’t really doing much to reduce carbon emissions. In fact, commercialized ...
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The fall of Gary Hirshberg: From reformer to reactionary anti-science propagandist?

Bruce Chassy, Jon Entine | 
Gary Hirshberg is in the midst of rewriting his legacy from admired 'social responsibility' leader to crank apologist for disinformation ...

Bacon substitute made from seaweed next superfood?

Helen Regan | 
The world's most perfect food may have just arrived. Researchers from Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center say they’ve ...
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