With extreme weather squeezing yields, new climate-resilient crop varieties using marker-assisted breeding and artificial ...

Are genetically modified (GM) plants the solution to achieving sustainable agriculture, clearing up pollution and eradicating ...

Scaling NextGen agricultural solutions across Africa require deliberate investment, policy support, and strong public-private ...

Indian agricultural minister has unveiled nation’s first gene edited rice verities- DRR Dhan 100 (Kamala) and Pusa Rice DST1. These varieties were developed by two laboratories of Indian Council for ...

The Danforth Technology Company (DTC) today announced the launch of Spearhead Bio, a startup pioneering a breakthrough platform to enhance the efficiency of crop genome engineering by harnessing the ...

(Nasdaq: CBUS) (the “Company”), a leading agricultural technology company that develops and licenses plant traits to seed companies, announced today that the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock in ...

Researchers used genomics to investigate the genetic changes causing resistance to transgenic crops in field populations of the corn earworm, also known as cotton bollworm or Helicoverpa zea.

(CRISPR can, however, be used to create such transgenic plants and animals as well.) “It’s very exciting to see these products coming out, because they have real-world impacts that are ...

In theory, farmers don’t have to spray pesticide as much or as often on these crops, and therefore pesticide runoff into waterways is much less of a concern. Well, after years of denial ...

“Another problem is that field workers or neighbours may develop allergies to insecticidal transgenic crops. For example, a spider venom expressed in sugarcane might block a metabolic pathway ...

But it wasn't until the 1970s that scientists first employed bioengineering to transfer genes from one organism to another to produce "transgenic" crops. When these genetically modified organisms ...

Interestingly, the transgenic plants also showed improved resilience to chilling stress, a common environmental challenge that can severely impact crop yields. The researchers observed that these ...