Plant breeding plays a vital role in ensuring global food security by increasing crop yields, improving nutritional quality ...

Plant biotechnology can be defined as the introduction of desirable traits into plants through genetic modification. The tobacco rattle virus was engineered to express the RNA-guided TnpB enzyme ...

A team discovers a new family of enzymes capable of inducing targeted cuts in single-stranded DNA A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific ...

grow medicine — literally — in a plant. Their project, called Phytogene, harnesses the power of “biopharming” — a method that transforms plants into living drug factories. In one of ...

Jobs at Industry Leading Companies: Recent biotechnology graduates are employed at organizations such as Pfizer, Inc., Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Merck & Co., Johns Hopkins Medicine, National ...

In this issue, we explore the topic of plant biotechnology. With a rapidly growing population, policymakers and scientists are asking: How will humans produce enough food to feed our growing numbers?

Exciting careers in sustainable agriculture and ecosystem sciences, agronomic and horticultural crop production systems, plant science research and biotechnology, and crop protection await you.

Agricultural biotechnology aims to improve crop yields, enhance nutrient content, and develop plants resistant to pests, diseases, and environmental stresses. Examples include: Genetically modified ...

produce novel biopharmaceuticals and help address global problems such as world hunger through genetically modified plants. The Program in Applied Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (AMBB) will ...

The team's findings are detailed in the Plant Biotechnology Journal. Scientists successfully demonstrated how the biosensor worked to detect a virus infecting a tobacco plant. When deployed in ...

The Costa Rican Institute of Technology (TEC), through the Center for Biotechnology Research (CIB) of the School of Biology, ...

Biotechnology is a broad discipline in which biological processes, organisms, cells or cellular components are exploited to develop new technologies. New tools and products developed by ...