Sustainability & Climate Change
Food production needs are expected to roughly double over the next 35 years as the world population grows and people in under developed countries become more affluent and demand more calories. Healthy ecosystems are vital to the survival of all organisms. How can we grow crops without harming the environment? How can we balance technology and global food security? What is the right balance of organic and conventional farming? What role can genetics and biotechnology play without compromising the needs of tomorrow?
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Popularity of GM, insect-resistant eggplant grows in Bangladesh as more farmers discover its yield-boosting benefits
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Viewpoint: CRISPR crops offer many benefits. Governments should teach the public about them
Tomatoes that use technology to efficiently modify genes will be sold as the first "genome-edited food" in Japan by the ...
With GM salmon and lab-grown meat poised to hit the market, 2021 could be a turning point for food technology
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Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch: The chemists who revolutionized fertilizer production and ‘changed the world for the better’
Without the efforts of Haber and Bosch, the world’s population would be much smaller ...
3 pioneering African nations embrace gene editing to boost food security, farmer incomes
Kenya, Nigeria and Eswatini are taking the lead on genome editing in Africa as they see its potential in boosting ...
Could lab-grown plants offset agriculture’s environmental footprint?
Researchers at MIT have developed a new method for growing plant tissues in a lab — sort of like how ...
Lab-grown meat is here: Restaurant in Singapore begins serving chicken made in a bioreactor
By the time you read this, a group of friends at a restaurant in Singapore will have shared a three-course ...
Gene editing immunizes canola against nasty fungal disease, and may cut farmer dependence on fungicides
Field trials confirmed greenhouse trial results of a new canola trait that’s sclerotinia resistant. Cibus is an independent trait developer ...
China makes progress on biotech crop development in race to achieve food self-sufficiency
Cultivating secure, stable and advanced seed varieties is key to China's ongoing efforts to beef up food security, especially in ...
Technology vs. global warming: How genomics, remote sensing and big data can safeguard our food supply
In a bid to help one of the world’s most important cereal crops survive hotter, drier conditions, the Foundation for ...
‘Landscapes of the future’: How solar-powered LEDs could improve crop growth and cut pesticide use
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Why do we need gene-edited crops? To make farming more sustainable
Crop improvement has been one of the main targets in research due to the rapid increase of world population. Crop ...
Viewpoint: Agroecology advocates threaten California agriculture with ‘primitive’ farming practices
To respond to crises, agriculture must be as efficient, innovative and resilient as possible. Even in California, whose agriculture is ...
Genetically engineered, blight-resistant potato could help East Africa beat hunger and move towards food self-sufficiency
Imagine being a potato farmer in Ethiopia, Kenya or Nigeria. On a small piece of land, which you depend on ...
Nuclear technology yields cotton ready to withstand withering heat waves brought on by global warming
[C]limate extremes such as heat waves and increasing temperatures have been impacting the cotton industry, which has seen an unprecedented ...
With neighboring countries battling crop-ravaging locusts, Zimbabwe readies itself for potential outbreak
Shingirai Nyamutukwa, head of the [Zimbabwe] Plant Quarantine and Plant Protection Research Services Institute [January 17] said there was an ...
Organic vs conventional: Which farming method is more sustainable? A case study from California
California's Central Valley produces more than 250 different crops comprising one-fourth of the nation's food, including 40% of our fruits, ...
Success of CRISPR tomato may determine if gene-edited foods take root in Japan
[A gene-edited tomato recently approved in Japan] contains a large amount of "gamma-aminobutyric acid" (a type of amino acid, commonly ...
Genetic engineering could immunize bananas against deadly Fusarium wilt without cutting crop yields
Bananas are one of the most important crops in developing countries and their industry is constantly under threat due to ...
Nitrogen-efficient rice could preserve crop yields while cutting environmental impact of fertilizer
Nitrogen fertilizer has an indispensable role in increasing crop yields, but on the other hand, it creates a severe threat ...
Viewpoint: Promoting CRISPR crops at the expense of GMOs to appease activists undermines both technologies
In the span of a few short years, gene editing has allowed scientists to begin rapidly and cheaply improving food ...
Saltwater algae genes could help engineer plants that survive in regions with high water salinity
Researchers from New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), in partnership with the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), have uncovered ...
Can Biden’s USDA bring America’s animal gene-editing rules into the 21st century?
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GM, insect-resistant Bt rice unlikely to pose a health risk, study shows
Rice is considered one of the most important staple food crops. Genetically modified (GM) Bt rice [harboring the] cry1Ab gene ...
Gene editing offers potential solution to orange growers struggling against citrus greening disease
Brazil is the world's largest orange producer, the state of São Paulo is a world leader in the production and ...
CRISPR gene editing could boost protein in plants and help produce more vegetable oil
Plants synthesize fatty acids in their leaves by using light. Prof. [Jay] Thelen and his team used the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas-9 to ...
Could heart-healthy soybean oil pave the way for more gene-edited, biofortified foods?
Transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs) have been successfully used to develop premium quality high-oleic soybean oil from gene-edited soybean plants. The ...
