Frank Giles
Viewpoint: When politics and emotion dictate pesticide safety rules, farmers lose
What happens when science is overwhelmed by politics, rhetoric, emotions, and the vessels now used to perpetuate it — social ...
CRISPR is poised to revolutionize biotech crops if politics doesn’t block it
Back in 2016, I wrote a feature story for Florida Grower magazine on the potential of CRISPR/Cas9 to improve agricultural productivity and maybe even ...
Genetic engineering may provide only long-term solution to citrus greening disease, National Academies of Sciences report says
A single breakthrough discovery for managing citrus greening (also known as Huanglongbing or HLB) in Florida in the future is ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO opposition to CRISPR gene editing driven by skepticism of corporations, capitalism
The Des Moines Register recently reported on research ... which unveiled Russian funding for and promotion of articles that question the ...
GMO citrus, tomatoes and grasses––resistant to disease––next frontier in hopes for consumer embrace of agricultural biotechnology
While the majority of traditional row crop acres are genetically engineered (GE), there are not many specialty crops that incorporate ...
Popular TED Talks explore future of agricultural innovation, biotechnology
The well-known TED Talks is a clearinghouse of big thinkers and big ideas, and quite a few of them have ...