Ag Gene Editing
Why rice, but not corn, requires genetic modification to produce beta-carotene
Much like the ancient form of rice, the ancient form of corn (teosinte) is not eaten. Much like rice, maize ...
Hillary Clinton: Evolutionary “grandma hypothesis” meets the grandma candidate
Grandmothers played an important role in the evolution of human social relationships and as generational knowledge sinks. Now women of ...
GMO opposition, regulations encouraged crop biotechnology industry consolidation
The mergers and acquisitions in the agricultural input sector are a response to a changing environment. The new developments in ...
Will new GMO labeling law apply to CRISPR crops?
...Earlier this year, the USDA gave the greenlight to CRISPR mushrooms engineered to not brown. It wrote that because the new mushroom ...
Disease resistant GMO cassava promising, but approvals in Uganda, Kenya still years away
...In many parts of East and Central Africa, farmers are experiencing declining yields of cassava due to brown streak virus ...
Gene-edited animals should be covered by same regulations as gene-edited plants
In vivo gene editing techniques have attracted great interest, not only in the scientific community, but also among regulatory agencies ...
Who funds the grassroots anti-GMO movement?
A farmer discusses the tactics of anti-GMO leaders and how they use grassroots movements to promote organic products ...
GMOs can address animal welfare, environmental, ethical challenges
[H]orns are dangerous, to both farmers and other cows. And so, for safety, millions of calves are de-horned each year, using a ...
Eliminating food waste requires behavioral changes, but GMOs can help too
Economists show solving the food waste problem is more than a matter of avoiding the trash bin ...
Kevin Folta: One year after Lipton’s NYT article, attacks on character continue
Attacks on Kevin Folta continue for perceived "shilling" for Monsanto. Folta responds to latest article, this time from the Alternet ...
Should Hawaii use GM mosquitoes to save its endangered birds?
The 2016 [World Conservation Congress] has been held in Hawaii, which is fitting, since the state is often referred to ...
GMO crops help reduce environmental impact of farming
[Editor's note: This is an excerpt from an extensive, open access series of reports on the safety of GMOs produced by ...
US should follow Canada in cracking down on non-GMO label when no GMO version exists
. . . [M]ore and more companies are slapping non-GMO labels onto products for which there is no GMO equivalent ...
Talking Biotech: University of Georgia’s Cecilia McGregor on genetics of watermelon; Kevin Folta answers listeners
University of Georgia's Cecilia McGregor on genetics of watermelon; Kevin Folta answers listeners ...
Anti-GMO protestors throw feces, eggs at European plant breeding conference
Imagine being so upset that a group of plant breeders and botanists are talking about agriculture that you storm in ...
New biofortified GMO rice will cost farmers no more than conventional
A NEW genetically modified rice variety could improve the health of people suffering from nutrient deficiencies in Asia. The variety, ...
GMO high tech farm animals stuck on the shelf
Various genetically engineered animals have shown promise in research. But they wait in the wings with no certainly of whether ...
Zimbabwe could save $60 million per year by adopting GMO maize
Zimbabwe could be losing up to $60 million worth of maize output a year due to failure to adopt new plant ...
Chimeric organ transplants: Science and ethics of growing human organs in pigs
Scientists may soon offer a solution to the organ shortage by growing human organs in pigs. But that poses prickly ...
No rotten tomatoes—Can genetic engineering help create a tastier but still hardy fruit?
From Flavr Savr to today, a history of the genetically modified tomato ...
Monsanto to build high tech GMO greenhouse in Arizona
Multinational biotechnology giant Monsanto Co. is bringing a small chunk of its highly influential — and controversial — seed operation ...
Does CRISPR gene editing = GMO? Biotechnology skeptics may split on how to regulate New Breeding Technologies
The movement opposed to products that have been called "GM" maybe splitting into two, with one faction considering to taking ...
Mitochondrial DNA reveals what Iceman Oetzi wore 5,300 years ago
DNA analysis of Oetzi the Iceman's clothes has traced their origin to at least five different species of animal. Among ...
Why activists, but few farmers, complain they can’t save patented seeds
Farmers don't save seeds because buying patented hybrids makes sense. It's not because of evil Big Ag ...
Kenyans sweep distance races, Jamaicans sprints: How evolution has shaped elite sports
The results of the Rio Olympics, especially in track and field events, reinforce the now widely accepted theory that evolution ...
Why tomatoes taste bad, how biotech could revolutionize a ‘lost’ fruit—and why you may never eat one
Supermarket tomatoes have a sorry reputation for looking great but tasting like cardboard. Short of growing only heirloom tomatoes, the ...
Wisconsin farmer explains why she grows GMOs
. . . [W]e make our livelihood growing soybeans, field corn and wheat. All of these crops are grown using ...
