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How genetics can revolutionize 100-year old strategies failing to protect honeybees
Beekeepers lose between 30% and 40% of their colonies annually, mostly to parasites and pathogens. Losses during one bad year ...
Can we create GMO crops to address climate change and enhance nutrition — yet avoid transgenic labeling and the restrictions that come with it?
Academic researchers and companies in the agricultural biotechnology sector will be able to use a patent-pending Purdue University biology innovation ...
Bones found in the ‘cradle of civilization’ in South Africa date to as long as 3.7 million years ago, a million years older than previously thought
The earth doesn’t give up its secrets easily – not even in the “Cradle of Humankind” in South Africa, where ...
Video: Instead of paying with a credit card, what if you could simply touch a scanner with your finger?
Instead of inserting a card or scanning a smartphone to make a payment, what if you could simply touch the ...
GMO misinformation proliferates on social media. What happens when it’s shared by experts?
Picture it. You are a respected, established advocate for agriculture and food production. You might even have a well-recognized brand ...
Non GMO salt? Gluten free orange juice? No hormone-added chicken? Study suggests many consumers willingly overpay even when they learn food label claims are bogus
Previous studies, as well as market sales data, show some consumers are willing to pay a premium for redundant or ...
New herbicide controls hard-to-kill weeds, could be paired with resistant GMO crops
Purdue University researchers have developed a compound effective for controlling weeds that is also safe for people and the environment. They ...
CRISPR rice increases grain yield 25% in Chinese field trials
A team of scientists from Purdue University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has used CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology to develop ...
Neonicotinoid corn seed treatments likely ‘far exceed demonstrable need’, study says
Nearly every foraging honey bee in the state of Indiana will encounter neonicotinoids during corn planting season, and the common ...
How Big Ag’s communication failures led to GMO labeling law
Authors Jessica Eise and Whitney Hodde explain that the ramifications of a poorly informed consumer based are becoming clear in ...
Bees on crop fields collect ‘astonishing number’ of pesticides used by nearby homeowners
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A Purdue University study ...