Kevin Folta

Subsistence farmers in Bangladesh make a living by growing, harvesting and selling brinjal, or the fruit westerners know as eggplant ...

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 ...

While Indian farmers have benefited tremendously from growing insect-resistant GMO cotton, the government has outlawed the cultivation of genetically engineered ...

Does the network get it right? Not even close, says Folta ...

Although dinosaurs are probably never coming back, the scenes from Jurassic Park are an extrapolation of actual research being performed ...

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

Africa has the most to gain from embracing crop biotechnology, yet the continent's farmers are still largely denied access to ...

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

Blackberries are a popular, healthy fruit consumed by people all over the world. Over the last century, significant progress has ...

Huanglongbing, or HLB, is the Chinese term for the Yellow Dragon Disease–usually referred to as citrus greening.  The disease first ...

University of Florida researcher Linda Bartoshuk has been recognized as an expert on interactions between smell, taste and psychology for ...

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

Cowpea is a critical crop in Western Africa. It is consumed by millions of people daily and provides important nitrogen ...

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

On this episode of Talking Biotech, University of Florida researchers Kevin Folta and Brady Holmer tackle two pressing questions in ...

Soybeans produce abundant cooking oil,  popular with both consumers and the food service industry. However, soybean oil isn't always the ...

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

When the transgenic AquAdvantage salmon was first developed in 1989, the goal was simple: engineer a fast-growing fish that required ...

Anthony Warner is known as The Angry Chef, achieving notoriety for critically analyzing the social movements that pop up around ...

Three graduate students highlight their efforts to breed disease-resistant crops and teach science to consumers ...

Is it sensationalism to get traffic, lazy reporting -- or intentional misrepresentation of facts? ...

Military preparedness means testing ammunition in controlled field trials, as well as decommissioning obsolete weaponry. The result is a significant ...

A skeptical look at the latest glyphosate-cancer study reveals critical errors ...

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

Ethos chocolate hypes its use of GMO ingredients to promote crop biotechnology ...