The genetic material of a plant is altered in a way that does not occur naturally by crossing or natural recombination, sometimes with foreign DNA (transgenic breeding or transgenesis). The genome of ...

A team from the University of Illinois has determined that improving a key component of soybean photosynthesis is unlikely to ...

Transgenic plant lines containing independent transgenes and independent transgenic insertion events are backcrossed and evaluated at a number of different breeding locations. Within this process ...

plants generated by selective breeding, and transgenic plants, but not for plants discovered in the field. Possible types of claims that should be drafted with respect to novel plant varieties are ...

You can also plant wild-type (non-transgenic) American chestnuts and participate in our tree breeding efforts as a citizen scientist. This Facebook group offers a chance to interact with other ...

The Swiss government has launched consultations on a draft law on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and new breeding technologies to reduce pesti ...

“Previous computational modeling and transgenic ... The Plant Journal. “No one had looked at how much variation there is [in relaxation of photoprotection] for traditional soybean breeding ...