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Talking Biotech: Artemisinin—the malaria treatment that could help prevent 400,000 deaths a year

Ian Graham, Kevin Folta | 
University of York's Dr. Ian Graham joins Kevin Folta to discuss how the plant-derived compound artemesia could help beat back ...
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Crops engineered to consume less nitrogen fertilizer could protect vulnerable ecosystems

Daniel Ackerman | 
Rice, wheat and other grains that have been bred to produce larger harvests using less land have been critical to ...
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Scientists hope to use sequenced wheat genome to cut pesticide use, but anti-GMO activists may slow progress

Santiago Montiveros | 
After 13 years of study, a consortium .... of .... 60 countries [sequenced] the wheat genome. [T]he scientific community now ...
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Does Ireland’s GMO crop cultivation ban undermine push for sustainable agriculture?

Barbara Doyle Prestwich, Eoin Lettice | 
At a time when we should be focussed on building a robust agriculture system that can cope with global climate ...
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GMO Bt insect resistant eggplant accounts for 20 percent of Bangladesh market, sells for 6 times conventional

Reaz Ahmad | 
Eggplant is a staple in vegetarian diets throughout South Asia, and one of the cheapest vegetables to procure by resource-poor ...
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GMO corn could be key to controlling invasive fall armyworm pest in Asia

Stephanie Parker | 
[T]he fall armyworm, an invasive crop pest .... has now been officially confirmed for the first time on the Asian ...
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Farming mom: ‘Organic methods made our farm’s environmental impact worse’

Jennie Schmidt | 
Carpooler In Chief, Homework Enforcement Officer, President of Lunch-Packing, Bedtime Efficiency Strategist… When you’re a mom, you never wear just ...
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Farmers say Laura Prepon and other anti-GMO celebrities make their jobs harder

Michelle Miller | 
I really wish there were more celebrities out there who embraced the biotechnology and the benefits behind modern agriculture. ...
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Protecting pollinators: New logging practices triple wild bee populations in one year

New research suggests the removal of timber harvest residue during harvesting may be a boon for wild bees, an important ...
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Sequenced wheat genome will help scientists combat disease in earth’s most widely-grown crop

The complete sequence of the huge wheat genome [was published August 16th], and the enormous dataset will accelerate innovation in ...
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Growing GMO soybeans in South America cut greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to removing 3.3 million cars from the road

Graham Brookes | 
This study assesses the economic and environmental impacts that have arisen from the adoption and use of genetically modified (GM) ...
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Argentina introduces GMO potato to combat virus that destroys up to 70% of nation’s crop

The Ministry of Food and Bioeconomy, under the Ministry of Agribusiness of Argentina, authorized the commercialization of the seed, and ...
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Nigerian biotech startup introduces produce coating to combat malnutrition in Africa

Gemma Milne | 
Nigerian biotech startup Coating+ ....  has created a transparent gelatinous coating that is sprayed onto fresh fruit and vegetables to prolong their shelf ...
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Europe’s decision to reject gene edited crops signals it is losing its commitment to sustainable agriculture

Jens Sundström, Torbjörn Fagerström | 
At the same time as Swedish agriculture is affected by the worst drought in recent memory, the European Court of ...
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GAANTRY: USDA develops ‘gene-stacking’ solution to fungal pathogens—but will it actually work?

Anne Connor | 
If climate change is the new normal, farmers in some regions of the world will have to get used to ...
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If Ghana follows Nigeria’s lead and approves Bt cotton, it could jump-start its textile industry

Joseph Gakpo | 
Nigeria’s decision to commercialize Bt cotton has revived hopes for the novel variety in Ghana, its West African neighbor. Science-focused ...
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Viewpoint: France’s agricultural policies giving rise to ‘green totalitarianism’

Michel Gay, Thierry Levent | 
[France] is slowly drowning reason in a mass of ideologies that stifle common sense. On glyphosate, the French Association for ...
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A farmer’s view on educating consumers about GMOs, pesticides and sustainable food

Toban Dyck | 
My family’s farm began in 1880s with a sod house and an intrepid couple—the Banmans—willing to brave the unforgiving Canadian ...
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CRISPR-edited yeast could make biofuel production more efficient

Some chemicals used to .... breakdown plants for production of biofuels .... are poison to the yeasts that turn the ...
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Video: Fear of biotech remains high, but GMOs are revolutionizing farming worldwide

Timo Kuentzle | 
It's no secret that many consumers remain fearful of agricultural biotechnology. More than half of Europe's citizens, for instance, believe ...
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How is India’s organic-only farming experiment in Sikkim going? Peering past the propaganda, not so sustainably.

Marc Brazeau | 
India's farm sector is in massive flux and strife right now. After a massive ten-day strike in June, Indian farmers ...
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Video: Ancient corn variety that makes its own nitrogen could lead to more sustainable farming

Jason Daley | 
In the 1980s, Howard-Yana Shapiro, now chief agricultural officer at Mars, Incorporated, was looking for new kinds of corn. He ...
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The next food revolution: Brought to you by CRISPR gene editing

Eric Niiler | 
Crispr has the potential to boost yields, disease resistance, and taste, and even tackle allergens like gluten. It could radically ...
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Climate change threatens champagne production, but wineries use ‘smart genetics’ to stave off problems

Elin McCoy | 
In the cold, chalky cellars deep underground at boutique Champagne house A.R. Lenoble, co-owner Antoine Malassagne shares his worries about ...
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If every country ate like America, the world would run out of farmland, study claims

Christian Nordqvist | 
If everybody in the world adopted the North American diet, there would be a shortage of land .... a new ...
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‘Geoengineering’ the atmosphere to slow climate change would threaten agricultural production

Fiona Harvey | 
Proposals to combat climate change by reflecting the sun’s rays back into space would cause widespread crop failure, cancelling out ...
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With limited arable land available around the world, is organic farming sustainable?

Steven Novella | 
This question comes up frequently in discussions of farming practices – how much arable land is there on the Earth, ...
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