Ag Gene Editing
Ugly, browning bananas could become a fruit of the past as gene-editing tweak reduces spoilage
Bananas turning brown is a natural process that occurs over time as the fruit overripens and produces too much ethylene ...
Viewpoint: Will ‘irrational fears of mutations and a naive understanding of nature’ derail Europe’s effort to reform 20+ years of misguided crop biotech regulations?
The European Commission has now published a proposal on how, in the future, to regulate crops produced by new breeding ...
Effort to rescue the almost-extinct American chestnut tree hits a snag, as rift develops between major sponsoring organizations over gene-editing techniques
The American Chestnut Foundation, a nonprofit where [Jared] Westbrook is director of science, has poured years of work into a ...
Viewpoint: Despite crop gene-editing deregulation in Canada, lack of federal support sharply limits innovations
In 2022, Health Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada announced that crop varieties developed with gene editing technology will not be subject ...
Cherry tomatoes of the future are here today thanks to gene editing. They grow faster, in clusters, and even indoors
Scientists have just genetically modified cherry tomatoes to make them easier to grow, and the future applications could include making them more ...
Here’s the skinny on fast-emerging genetic engineering tools that are rapidly improving global farming
Genetic engineering and gene-editing tools are by no means a panacea for the time-sensitive agricultural and food-related challenges we face ...
$115 billion: From GMOs to gene editing, agricultural biotechnology market poised to expand dramatically by 2028
'Agricultural Biotechnology: Emerging Technologies and Global Markets' explores the dynamic intersection of cutting-edge biotechnological innovations and the global agricultural landscape ...
Dozens of countries are planning to open their markets to agricultural gene editing. Here are the current regulatory status and opportunities for harmonization
The creators of CRISPR/Cas have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their ground-breaking technology and its exceptional ...
Will England emerge as a world innovator in gene-edited crops?
Brexit has been a disaster for the UK. It has not spurred the great economic revival that many of the ...
USDA further liberalizes rules to allow easy approval of more gene-edited crops
Biotech plant developers are pleased with a proposal from USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to create five new ...
Viewpoint: Nigeria may be running out of farmable land. Is there a biotech-based solution?
It is probable that Nigeria would experience a scarcity of cultivable land and a notable reduction in the nitrogen levels ...
Should we be concerned that gene-editing seeds will cascade into unpredictable changes?
For tens of thousands of years, evolution shaped tomatoes through natural mutations. Then, humans came along. For centuries, we've bred ...
Gene-editing primer: What’s the difference between CRISPR crops and GMOs?
GMOs and gene-edited crops are products of genetic engineering, but one is a GMO and the other is not. Why ...
How CRISPR trees could help us create optimized paper of the future
Wood consists of about 25 percent lignin, but the paper and fiber industries remove it because it lowers the quality ...
Viewpoint: ‘Fear of captive agricultural markets beholden to global corporations is a non-issue if African nations develop their own GM crops’
As certain African nations have legalised genetically modified organisms (GMOs), primarily for food and crops, others like Rwanda have introduced ...
CRISPR-created strawberries that stay firmer and fresher longer could revolutionize fruit industry
The cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa, Duch.) is one of the Rosaceae family renowned for its flavor and health benefits, ...
Boosting taste, shelf life and climate resilience: Why creating a genetic map is the first step in creating the perfect apple
Leveraging unique genome mapping research from Dalhousie’s Faculty of Agriculture, startup Foodimprover is set to transform the global fruit sector’s ...
Eliminating bird flu: How gene-edited chickens could mitigate threats
In a recent gene editing study, my colleagues and I showcased the potential of gene editing to protect chickens from the threat ...
From potential to progress: Latest developments in Golden Rice deployment in the Philippines
In the Philippines, about two million children under five are at risk of vision issues and weak immune systems. These ...
Africa needs collaboration, not harmonization to benefit from biotechnology transformation
Africa does not need to harmonize its biosafety laws before enjoying the benefits of the ongoing agricultural revolution powered by ...
Why gene-edited non-browning ‘Arctic apples’ are potential game changer for reducing food waste and extending supply chains
Three varieties of non-browning Arctic apples developed by a Summerland-based company are now rolling off the production line at a ...
Argentina on cusp of releasing first genetically modified non-browning potato in Latin America
Scientists from the National Institute of Agricultural Technology - INTA of Argentina, the public entity in charge of carrying out ...
Ever seen an orange petunia? CRISPR gene-editing can make that happen naturally
White petunias exist in nature, but not bright orange and yellow ones. In 2015, one of my PhD advisers, Teemu ...
If seedless watermelons don’t have seeds, how do we grow more of them?
Although seedless watermelons have existed since 1940, and have been widely available at grocery chains since the 1980s, they continue ...
Here’s how we can overhaul our food and farming systems to grow enough food to meet population and climate change challenges
As consumers, our relationship with food – how we grow, produce and eat it, must change in response to increased ...
Viewpoint: Why does the French public fully embrace gene editing to cure diseases, but remain wary of use in agriculture, where it could help fight hunger?
French opinion has an ambivalent relationship with scientific progress. Welcomed with enthusiasm in the field of human biology, it is, ...
Joint Kenya-Uganda-Nigeria GMO research project develops blight-resistant, higher yield potato
Timothy Kipsang, a farmer from Kipkabus in Uasin Gishu County, has been growing potatoes on his farm for more than ...