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The Scientific American article about "dying broccoli" and "toxic corn" drew wide criticism for its unreferenced and outright false indictment ...

A drive toward The Everglades down US 98 between Yeehaw Junction and Belle Glade, FL takes you around the east ...

Economic growth fueled by market reforms has cut poverty in the developing world drastically over the last 30 years. But ...

Microbes surround us and enhance our lives in almost innumerable ways. These helpful micro-machines catalyze key reactions required to produce ...

Christine Burkard, assistant professor of infection and immunity at the Roslin Institute in Scotland, says her team has devised a ...

There is substantial interest in growing crops in closed controlled environments, yet the energy requirements are high. Energy is required ...

In the minds of activists, it doesn't matter that Dr. Folta never acted illegally or unethically. The only thing that ...

While technology is exploding in all areas of life, it has been slow to reach agriculture. Many old, unsustainable farming ...

Plants have shown a wide range of reactions after being edited with random bits of genetic material. Some grow faster ...

Recently, University of Florida plant scientist Kevin Folta was invited to present a series of lectures at a seed saving ...

Folta says this incident is typical of the harassment biotech researchers have experienced at the hands of US-RTK and other ...

One of the limiting factors in photosynthesis is the plant’s ability to take up carbon dioxide to assimilate into carbohydrates ...

Dr. Kevin Folta discusses science communication (the communication of science-related topics to non-experts). Part of his work is helping people ...

A University of Florida horticulture professor known for his scientific defense of genetically modified foods lost his defamation suit against ...

The University of California at San Francisco has compiled a database of documents claimed to shine a bright light on ...

I don’t throw the word hero around very often, but in this case the cape fits. Out on the vast ...

In Part 1,  I described the vendetta by the Russian government's propaganda apparatus against technologies like fracking and modern genetic ...

The 2016 World Food Prize went to a group that coordinated the breeding, promotion and distribution of the orange-fleshed sweet ...

Dr. Sheila Adimargono joins Kevin Folta on this week's podcast to discuss barley's role in plant domestication and the development ...

Writer Mark Lynas discusses his life as an anti-GMO activist, why he changed his mind, and his new book Seeds ...

Geneticist Mark Lawler: Despite being instrumental in the discovery of DNA’s double-helical structure, Rosalind Franklin died at the age of ...

New research shows that the immune-reactive agents of modern wheat have been around a long time, and are not necessarily ...

Food scientist Senay Simsek: Gluten sensitivity is not caused by the genetic improvement of wheat varieties ...

Elanco's Colleen Parr Dekker: Product differentiation and marketing—not transparency and education—are why food companies adopt trendy labels ...

Kentucky agronomist Chad Lee: Farmers choose herbicide-tolerant GMO crops because they simplify effective weed management and enable no-till farming ...

Plant scientist Monica Schmidt: By modifying only one gene, a new variety of soybeans has higher levels of beta-carotene than ...

Plant biologist Beth Hood: Scientists are genetically modifying plants to produce ingredients for a variety of important industrial and therapeutic ...