Ag Gene Editing
Liberal awakening: Ignorance of GMO science has no ideology
[Emily Thorne is a 17-year-old aspiring journalist from Athens, Georgia.] For a long time, I was part of the anti-GMO movement. It ...
Spinach genome will help breeders improve disease-resistance, yield and quality
While you may not gulp spinach by the can-fulls, if you love spanakopita or your go-to appetizer is spinach artichoke ...
‘Science mom’ challenges meal delivery service Blue Apron’s non-GMO food policy
Blue Apron's non-GMO policy stirs up a hornets' nest of reaction by pro-science moms on a quest to take on ...
Flower power: Decoded sunflower genome could unlock increased oil, stress tolerance
Take that, sunflowers. The convoluted genetic code that has thwarted scientists for so long has finally been cracked. Scientists published ...
Maine approves 3 genetically engineered blight resistant potatoes that reduce pesticide use
With little fanfare, the Maine Board of Pesticides Control unanimously approved ... the registration of three new types of genetically ...
Mimicking gene changes in mutant cherry tomatoes can nearly double production
Plant geneticists have figured out how to almost double the production of garden tomatoes. Though most of us care mainly ...
GMO rescue of American chestnut tree may take longer than anticipated
The nearly century-old effort to employ selective breeding to rescue the American chestnut, which has been rendered functionally extinct by ...
Less milkweed due to herbicide likely contributed to early monarch butterfly declines, study finds
[Monarch butterfly] numbers ... are shrinking. New research at Michigan State University, published in the current issue of the journal ...
What would Whole Foods look like if it were ‘science-based’?
[Editor’s note: Jenny Splitter is a writer, storyteller and mother of two.] Whole Foods used to be my idea of ...
Pooched-out pooches: Obesity-prone dog breeds help us understand and treat overweight humans
[A] research associate let each dog sniff a hot dog before demonstratively placing it inside a small plastic hamster cage ...
GLP’s Jon Entine: Gene editing will cut time, costs of commercializing new genetically engineered crops
Monsanto, the world’s largest producer of GMO seeds, is betting that a new technology called gene editing may calm consumers ...
‘Organic civil war’: Do advocates care about promoting food security and sustainability?
Last June [2016] Stephanie Strom, reporting for the New York Times, broke the story about how Whole Foods had upset ...
If biofortified crops are goal, both genetic engineering and conventional breeding necessary
[Dr Swati Puranik, of the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences at Aberystwyth University in the UK] and her ...
Anti-vax Organic Consumers Association, linked to measles outbreak, has deep ties to anti-GMO conspiracist USRTK
The Organic Consumers Association uses its sizable budget to fund front groups, like Gary Ruskin's US Right to Know, that ...
Legal wrangle puts brakes on new strawberry that’s ‘bigger, brighter and stays sweeter longer’
Two retired food scientists are locked in an epicurean feud with the University of California over the fate of the ...
How to reduce pest tolerance to insect-resistant GM Bt crops? Breed the plants with conventional ones
Insect pests that are rapidly adapting to genetically engineered crops threaten agriculture worldwide. A new study published in the Proceedings ...
Backward regulations may prevent Europe from ever benefiting from easy-to-develop disease-resistant tomatoes
Engineering a tomato resistant to a pernicious fungal disease doesn’t seem like it’d be the easiest part of a plant pathologist’s ...
Genome editing could save ‘genetically decaying’ cassava staple that feeds 1 in 10 people
For breeders of cassava, a staple food for hundreds of millions in the tropics, producing improved varieties has been getting ...
Talking Biotech: Genetic engineering’s role in breeding more disease resistant and nutritious potatoes
Michigan State's David Douches builds a better potato combining genetic engineering and traditional breeding ...
Tackling hidden hunger: Biofortified genetically engineered foods increase iron, zinc and vitamin A
Back in the 60s, the Green Revolution changed the way we looked at food, both in terms of growing and ...
Read the tea leaves: Decoded plant genome unlocks flavor secrets for future breeding
A team in China has decoded the genetic building blocks of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis, whose leaves are used ...
Debate heats up: Did National Academies of Science GMO report go far enough in affirming GMO safety consensus?
The debate among scientists over whether the 2016 NAS report unnecessarily muddied the debate over GMO regulations spilled over into ...
Gene tweaks could lead to improved corn and sorghum yields
Researchers at the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Institute for Renewable Fuels at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center have discovered a gene ...
Does plant patent system restrict innovation and hurt small breeders?
The one-size-fits-all approach, that imposes the patent system on the agricultural sector irrespective of the consequences, may not be in ...
Man’s best friend: Evolutionary history of dogs could shed light on cancer, epilepsy in both species
An evolutionary tree of more than 161 dog breeds has been mapped out by geneticists, showing which types are closely ...
Non-GMO breeding changes the makeup of crops more than genetic engineering
The composition of GM breeding stacks was more similar to the composition of iso-hybrids than was the composition of nonGM ...
Sorghum resistant to herbicide, drought, pests in advanced development
For the past several years sorghum research has lagged behind that of corn and soybeans, but that could soon change ...
