Ag Gene Editing
Brewing resistance: Studying coffee’s genetic lineage provides clues on how to create varieties to survive climate change
A research paper released April 15 in Nature Genetics mapped the genome and considered the possible origins of the world's ...
Blue soybeans? Orange wheat? How a gene-edited splash of color could make robotic weeding much easier
Genetically engineering crops to be colourful could help farmers produce food without using herbicides, as it would make it easier ...
Nutritional breakthrough: Genetically modified vitamin B1-fortified rice could help us overcome some health deficiencies
Vitamin B1 is an essential micronutrient for human beings. Its deficiency is the cause of numerous diseases of the nervous ...
European Ombudsman rejects environmental advocacy group claims that European Commission mishandled favorable impact assessment of gene-edited crops, and closes case
Releasing genetically modified organisms into the environment and placing them on the EU market as food or feed is subject ...
Gene-edited chickens could reduce the threat of bird flu spread and promote sustainability
A solution may be around the corner to an avian flu outbreak that has led to the deaths of millions of ...
Viewpoint: Genetic tweaking and breeding breakthroughs opens world of new fruits, exotic oddities and fresher produce
Today, even in the dead of winter, you can head to your local grocery and find any number of wondrous ...
Viewpoint: At a time where drought and global instability threaten global food security, gene editing offers solutions to combat pests, pathogens and poor weather
Later this year gene-edited crops will be planted at about two dozen commercial farms across England for the first time ...
Viewpoint: The keys to sustainable fishing lay in gene-editing and plant-based fish food
As worldwide consumption of fish increases and ocean fish are getting scarce, raising fish under the controlled conditions of aquaculture ...
Why you may soon be shopping for tomatoes enhanced with snapdragon flower genes
Norfolk Healthy Produce's Purple Tomato is the culmination of nearly two decades of work, mostly on the part of Cathie ...
CRISPR gene-editing technology heralds first generation of climate change resistant crops
CRISPR gene editing technology is beginning to deliver on a promise to quickly create crops with traits that withstand a ...
Delicious new food in the making: Catfish with alligator genes resists fish disease problems
A group of scientists at Auburn University published a paper in January detailing their efforts to genetically modify catfish with the cathelicidin ...
Unpacking effects of GM crops on global health, labor, and sustainability
Many people wonder what impacts GMO crops have on our world. “GMO” (genetically modified organism) is the common term consumers ...
Disease resistance, crop diversity and enhanced fertilizer efficiency: Three desperately needed improvements that CRISPR brings to agriculture
Moderated by Howard-Yana Shapiro, a distinguished senior fellow at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), the March 19 and 20 World ...
Viewpoint: CRISPR gene editing is no silver bullet in in the battle to contain bird flu
Recently, a group of scientists announced a breakthrough approach to combat Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (bird flu or avian flu), a severe illness ...
Viewpoint: ‘We’ve passed inflated expectations and troughs of disillusionment’ — Food and ag industry insiders say best is yet to come for CRISPR gene-edited crops
Over the past 10 years, there has been incredible progress in CRISPR thanks to enormous private and public investment. Yet, ...
Viewpoint: Here’s why the EPA needs to relax regulations that make it harder for farmers to access pest-resistant biotech crops
Plant pests and disease have a massive global impact, causing the loss of 20–40% of crop production and costing over USD 220 billion ...
Farming uses too much water? These CRISPR gene-edited tomatoes resist drought and still bear fruit
Researchers have successfully used CRISPR to develop tomato plants that use water more efficiently, meaning they need less water to grow. This ...
How gene editing and AI can drive sustainable forestry and revolutionize the paper industry
About a quarter of wood consists of something called lignin. While lignin serves an important role for trees, helping them grow taller and get ...
Italy to launch first field test of a gene-edited crop, rice engineered to protect against disease without the use of agrochemicals
The witch hunt against old GMOs will soon be a distant memory (perhaps). And after more than twenty years of ...
Viewpoint: Two dozen gene-edited crop field trials set to begin later this year in England ‘could have major benefits’
Later this year gene-edited crops will be planted at about two dozen commercial farms across England for the first time ...
German professor calls country’s organic lobbyists ‘dishonest’ for hyping potential dangers of gene-edited crops
Up to €50 million has to be invested in an approval process for GM plants, and the smaller plant breeding ...
Belgium Public Health Council endorses safety and efficacy of gene edited crops, urges EU approval
A European legislative proposal is being studied to authorize the cultivation of NGT plants. These are plants created by the targeted ...
Uruguay joins gene-editing nations, revamps CRISPR crop approval process
The ministries of Environment and Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries will work together in the analysis of the New Genetic Improvement ...
How CRISPR gene drives could help eliminate pesticide-resistant ‘superweeds’
A gene drive – a bit of DNA that cheats evolution and can spread even if harmful – has been ...
Viewpoint: South Africa lags much of world in regulating gene-edited seeds as GMOs
Automatically regulating all gene-editing products as GMOs as opposed to the product-by-product approach adopted by most other countries is going ...
In its quest for food security, China scales up GMO and gene edited crop approvals
In a significant leap towards self-reliance in food security, China celebrates the success of a three-year trial planting homegrown genetically ...
Viewpoint: Why the European Union Commission’s proposal to limit patents on gene-edited crops would rewrite global intellectual property rights
On February 7, 2024, the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) adopted, by way of plenary vote, a position supporting ...
