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Memphis Meats vice president says traditional agriculture ‘required’ for success of lab-grown meat

Eric Schulze, Gene Johnston | 
Start-up company Memphis Meats says that in the future, consumer meat products won’t start in a pasture or a feedlot. Rather, they ...
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Scientists aim to engineer genetic defense system against deadly grapevine disease

A new discovery by Washington State University scientists could help grape growers roll back a devastating virus that withers vines ...
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80 percent of Americans prefer organic produce, but are they healthier for it?

April Benshosan | 
A whopping 82.3 percent of American households stock up on organic food .... But what if everything we know—or think we know—about ...
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Scientists could save American Chestnut Tree with genetic engineering—if regulators let them

Gabriel Popkin | 
Two deer-fenced plots here contain some of the world’s most highly regulated trees. Each summer researchers double-bag every flower the ...
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GMO omega-3 canola cleared by USDA, on its way to consumers

Cathy Siegner | 
Nuseed, a subsidiary of Nufarm, Ltd. of Australia, has received approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to start planting its ...
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South Africa urges neighboring countries to learn from its success with biotech

Joseph Gakpo | 
South Africa is urging other African countries to learn from its latest strategy and adopt more holistic policies around biotechnology ...
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Climate change makes bugs hungrier, which could threaten our food supply

Dana Dovey | 
Climate change is already threatening our food supply by raising temperatures and causing wildfires, but as a new study in ...
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Viewpoint: Want to slash pesticide use? Stop trying to ban GMOs

Michelle Miller | 
On Aug. 20, I gave a speech in Dublin, Ireland, at the International Association for Plant Biotechnology Congress .... where ...
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Dead Sea plant genes could boost efforts to cope with drought, climate change

Brian Blum | 
The biblical Joseph foresaw in a dream a seven-year drought and subsequently guided Egypt’s rulers to set aside enough stores ...
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How genetics could help agroecology—the science, not the political movement

Andrew Porterfield | 
Agroecology isn’t rocket science So wrote Daniel Moss, head of the AgroEcology Fund, and Mark Bittman, former food columnist, in ...
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Scientists could use CRISPR gene editing to combat ‘superweeds’ when herbicides fail

Paul Neve | 
There is a pressing need for novel control techniques in agricultural weed management. Direct genetic control of agricultural pests encompasses ...
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Researchers turn genetic corner in fight against devastating wheat disease

Researchers from the University of Sydney, CSIRO, the United Kingdom's John Innes Centre, Limagrain UK and the National Institute of ...
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‘Smart plants’? Newly discovered genetic ‘messaging system’ could get us there

Erik Rolfsen | 
University of British Columbia researchers have discovered an internal messaging system that plants use to manage the growth and division ...
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Agricultural drones offer high-tech relief for struggling farms

Yuka Obayashi | 
The next generation farmhand in Japan's aging rural heartland may be a drone. For several months, developers and farmers in ...
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Dicamba controversy: EPA’s decision on herbicide’s future expected by end of September

Margy Eckelkamp | 
Throughout this year, EPA has been monitoring reports during the application season and it’s expected the agency will announce its ...
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New hybrid sugar beet could boost Europe’s sugar industry

Plant biotechnologists from the Ryan Institute at NUI Galway [Ireland] have identified genetic breeding strategies to develop bigger and better ...
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What is a GMO? That’s a question with many answers

Nothing seems to upset those arguing about GMOs more than debating the definition of the term “GMO” itself. Most proponents ...
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All-veggie ‘Impossible burger’ targeted by PETA’s cancer claims

Alex Berezow | 
Imagine sinking your teeth into a nice, juicy hamburger. Then, imagine being told that the hamburger isn't made from beef ...
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Will glyphosate’s legal troubles pave the way for greater use of robots in agriculture?

Kelly Henaughen | 
Following a major blow in Californian courts recently, widely-used herbicide glyphosate has continued to take a battering, as industry professionals ...
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Plants are great at storing CO2. These scientists aim to make them even better.

Hillary Rosner | 
Researchers around the world are working to improve plants’ ability to combat climate change. Editor's note: This article was originally ...
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Viewpoint: Public’s support for Canadian neonicotinoid ban obscures bigger threats to bee health

Robert Arnason | 
On Aug. 15 .... Health Canada held a news conference to explain why it was banning neonicotinoid insecticides .... Health ...
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Viewpoint: US, Europe taking ‘equally misguided’ approaches toward gene-edited crops

Crispr is coming to the farm. The gene-editing tool, best known for its potential to prevent disease and fight cancer, ...
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Exploring GMO canola as a cheap source of omega-3 fatty acid for farmed salmon

Matt Craze | 
Something is amiss in the huge barley fields of Montana. Mini-planters punctuate a tiny canola patch an hours’ drive from ...
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Cryopreservation: Scientists protect diversity of Uganda’s staple crops with cold storage

Christopher Bendana | 
Uganda’s National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO) is using liquid nitrogen to conserve banana cell lines .... to combat disease and ...
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Pursuing alternatives: Honeybees may be helped by other pollinators

Catherine Allchin | 
The honeybee, Apis mellifera, has been the dominant pollinator for decades but now is threatened by pesticides, pathogens, parasites and ...
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Lab-grown microbes could reduce agriculture’s dependence on chemical pesticides and fertilizers

Maxx Chatsko | 
There's a potentially huge technology risk on the horizon [for] fertilizer companies  ....  next-generation biotech products called microbials .... Microbials ...
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Cannabis farming is fueling development of less toxic biopesticides for ‘mainstream’ agriculture

Janet Burns | 
As legal cannabis farms take the spotlight, safer methods of pest control are also taking root in more 'mainstream' agriculture. ... Regulators point out ...
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