Modern breeding produces genetically superior chicken

Lucy Berry | 
Sixty years ago, it could take up to 16 weeks to grow a three-pound chicken fit for eating. The breasts ...

Consumers willing to pay more for GM potatoes with food safety benefits

New research from an Iowa State Univ. economist found consumers were willing to spend more for genetically modified potato products ...

Judge considers delaying GM lawsuit in Hawaii

Audrey McAvoy | 
A federal judge said she would consider delaying proceedings for a lawsuit challenging Maui's ban on the cultivation of genetically ...

GM labeling bills on docket in Massachusetts, Rhode Island

Jenny Hopkinson | 
New England could once again be a hotbed of action for GMO labeling during this legislative session, with hopes particularly ...

Combination of stresses contributes to bee deaths

Brad Plumer | 
In a recent review paper for Science, a team of researchers argue that the combination of modern stresses facing bees ...
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Eaten alive: Crops can ‘feel’ insects eating them, providing clues to insect resistance

Darryl Fears | 
A new study arrived at the fairly gruesome conclusion that plants can feel insects eat them alive. And a specific type of plant, ...

Robots find genetic mutations in crops, accelerating breeding solutions

Eliza Strickland | 
If you want to find what’s probably the best example of what robots are doing in crop development, come to ...
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AAAS presidents: ‘Anti-GMO harassment of best scientific thinkers must stop now’

Nina Fedoroff, Peter Raven, Phillip Sharp | 
In the latest organised attack on science, 14 senior U.S. scientists are being targeted by anti-GM lobby group U.S. Right ...

Genetically altered rice variety yields for years without replanting

Winifred Bird | 
Ten thousand years ago, China’s ancient inhabitants harvested the grains of wild rice, a perennial grass growing up to 15 ...

Can Arctic apples be ‘poster child’ for GMOs?

Chuck Robinson | 
Count me among the bystanders shouting encouragement to the gladiator to go in for the kill. The GMO arena seems ...

Activist groups demand Costco not sell GM salmon if approved

Lydia Wheeler | 
Food safety advocates are urging that Costco not sell genetically modified salmon if it is approved. Friends of the Earth, which ...

New genetically engineered peanuts resistant to pests, diseases 

Guarav Krishna | 
Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is a major species of the family, Leguminosae, and economically important not only for vegetable oil but ...
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Crusaders slam GM foods, glyphosate, conventional agriculture

Ken Roseboro | 
A “GMO Plenary” held last month in Missouri featured a panel of anti-GMO activists who discussed multiple health and environmental risks ...
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Atrazine critic-scientist Tyrone Hayes’ own data shows frogs thriving in ag regions

Alex Avery | 
An herbicide popular with farmers but targeted by environmentalists because it is supposedly responsible for chemically castrating frogs has been ...

Monsanto said to offer ‘sustainable solutions’ to arrest decades long monarch butterfly decline

Doug Gurian-Sherman | 
Monarch butterflies are in trouble. These popular insects, which have captured the public imagination with their several-thousand mile migrations, have ...

Genetics give conventional fruits and vegetables heirloom taste

Kevin Folta | 
When you order a sandwich at Subway you can watch the guy lay out pink, anemic tomatoes on your sandwich ...

Would farmers grow GM wheat if approved?

Jeff Gelski | 
Any future deregulation and commercialization of bioengineered/genetically modified wheat in the United States would pose questions. Might yield and disease-resistant ...

Concerned consumers can easily avoid non-labeled foods with GMOs

Victor Panichkul | 
The failure of Measure 92 in Oregon's last election, which would have required genetically modified food to be labeled, has ...

Searching for biotech alternatives to unsustainability of palm oil

Alex Scott | 
Palm oil is a wonderfully versatile and cheap raw material. On its own or via chemical derivatives, the oil makes ...

EPA limits planting of GM corn to curb pest resistance

Jacob Bunge | 
U.S. regulators for the first time are proposing limits on the planting of some genetically engineered corn to combat a ...
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GM soybean oil healthier than organic versions

Soybean oil accounts for more than 90 percent of all the seed oil production in the United States and genetically ...
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Anti-GMO activist ‘ecologists’ destroy GM eucalyptus seedlings in Brazil

Recently 300 peasants organized by La Via Campesina occupied the meeting of the Brazil National Biosafety Technical Commission (CTNBio) in ...

Oregon legislature divided on GMO “contamination” bills

Tracy Loew | 
Backers of two bills that would allow the state to regulate where genetically modified crops could be grown in Oregon ...

Are Sygenta Viptera lawsuits appropriate reaction to GMO trade problems? US farmers split

Sara Wyant | 
Ask just about any farmer leader if they support science and innovation in agriculture and the answer will usually be ...

Developing countries plant more GM crops than industrial countries

The United States remains the leading grower of biotech crops in the world but developing countries are fast catching up ...

Forty years of food technology brought famine-riddled countries back from brink

Shenggan Fan | 
In the mid-1970s, the outlook for food supplies around the world was grim. There were talks of "food triage" — food-rich ...

Genome editing more efficiently targets desirable traits in crops

Chuck Gill | 
A novel strategy to enhance genome editing promises to increase the efficiency of making genetic improvements in a wide range ...
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