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Why the USDA is finding it hard to combat surge in fraudulent organic products

Ryan Mccrimmon | 
USDA has an organic problem. The department wants to clamp down on fraudulent products, but needs to tackle inaccurate government ...
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Can we ‘build’ a better banana with genetic engineering?

Norman Ellstrand | 
Reproductively, domesticated banana plants are self-copying machines .... With the emergence of the 20th century, the confluence of the Industrial ...
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Teen farmer challenges myths about GMOs, ‘factory farming’

Avery Plote | 
Growing up on a production agriculture farm .... I help to produce the food that we enjoy on a daily ...
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Gene silencing could help boost rice yields in developing world

Scientists can examine the genetic basis for some of the changes that took place during rice domestication by comparing genes in cultivated rice plants with ...
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Cheese: The GMO food die-hard GMO opponents love, but don’t want to label

Jon Entine, XiaoZhi Lim | 
In cheese production, the need to use traditional rennet obtained from calf stomachs has largely been removed because of a ...
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Can biotechnology help protect the world’s chocolate supply?

Bryce Gray | 
[K]eeping pace with global cravings can be a tall order for chocolate producers — a challenge made even tougher as ...
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CRISPR gene editing could fuel fight against evolving cotton pests

[B]ugs are biting back by adapting to crops genetically engineered to kill them. A new study published in the Proceedings of ...
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‘Goodish’ news for climate change models: They don’t account for plants’ nocturnal behavior

Climate scientists have not been properly accounting for what plants do at night, and that, it turns out, is a ...
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FDA launches initiative to support plant, animal biotechnology innovation

Today, [October 30] the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the Plant and Animal Biotechnology Innovation Action Plan to outline the key ...
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Climate change and rice: How some of the world’s poorest nations may suffer

Kristie Ebi | 
Much of the world relies on rice. What happens when climate change threatens rice nutrition? ...
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Healthier oil? US farmers poised for first harvest of gene-edited soybeans

Farmers in the United States are poised to harvest, for the first time, 6,500 hectares of genetically modified soybeans that ...
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GM corn boosts yields as much as 58 percent in Tanzanian field trials

Fatma Abdu | 
Tanzania's second year of confined field trials of genetic modified maize is bearing fruit, as the crop has significantly shown ...
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6 things agroecology can do for farming and the environment

Agroecology has returned to the global spotlight, as one approach to bring farmers closer to meeting challenges [like rising food ...
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Viewpoint: Why we have to fight for what biotechnology can offer us

Amanda Maxham | 
“Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.” That’s how fictional star ship captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek orders his tea, 300 years ...
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Grass genes could help scientists breed crops better adapted to drought, high temperatures

Researchers from Cornell and the United States Department of Agriculture will tap into genetic information found in more than 700 ...
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Video: How ‘turning down’ gene expression in pests can help protect crops and bees

Greg Heck | 
In this video, CropLife International scientist Greg Heck discusses how researchers are using RNA interference (RNAi) to turn off or ...
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How synthetic biology can solve the problems we’ve created

Jenna Gallegos | 
Human activity has wreaked havoc on the environment. Many of the products we rely on for our daily lives are ...
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Countering the impact of climate change through new breeding techniques

Nazimi Açıkgöz | 
It is imperative that we breed new varieties of plants to make agriculture more sustainable, given increasing food demand and ...
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Talking Biotech: How insects could make our food supply more sustainable

Kevin Folta, Sam Glickstein | 
Producing feed for animals we eat has led to overfishing and other environmental challenges. Feeding our livestock insects might solve ...
Bronchitis in chickens can cut egg production 70%. New vaccine may stem outbreaks

Bronchitis in chickens can cut egg production 70%. New vaccine may stem outbreaks

Infectious bronchitis virus is highly contagious and responsible for major economic losses to the poultry industry worldwide. Infected chickens experience ...
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Biotech crops could make Kenya major cotton producer again, government says

Abel Muhatia | 
Kenya has been losing at least 4,210 cotton farmers every year for the last 38 years due to low returns ...
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Video: European farmers push for greater access to GMO crops to ensure better harvests

From adapting to climate change to ensuring a sufficient supply of food, agricultural innovation has enormous potential to help farmers ...
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FDA, USDA tackle lab-grown meat label regulations at joint agency conference

Ryan Mccrimmon | 
[Ocotber 24 was] Day 2 of the joint USDA-FDA public meeting on cell-based meat — or whatever we end up ...
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Plants bred to survive freezing temperatures could save crop harvests from destruction

Researchers from The University of Western Australia have found that an enzyme in plants, ATP Synthase, plays a critical role ...
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Using gene editing to control forest fires? It could be a reality if anti-biotechnology activists don’t block it

Andrew Porterfield | 
The American west has experienced devastating wildfires in recent years; while the number of fires has decreased a little over ...
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Robot farmers: ‘This is the revolution’

John Harris | 
In a quiet corner of rural Hampshire, a robot called Rachel is pootling around an overgrown field. With bright orange ...
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Argentina approves first drought-resistant, herbicide-tolerant GMO soybean

The Argentine government approved the first soy that is tolerant to drought and that also combines better weed control by ...
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