Researchers at Colorado State University have developed a tool that can be used to switch a plant's key genetic traits on or ...

The Federal Government has called for urgent, coordinated action to safeguard Nigeria’s traditional crops, describing them as ...

A new project, co-led by Dr Joshua James and Professor Patrick Cai of the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology at The ...

A new project, co-led by Dr Joshua James and Professor Patrick Cai of the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology at The ...

Plant biotechnology encompasses a range of techniques founded on the principles of cellular totipotency, tissue culture and plant transformation used to tailor plants to particular requirements ...

A GROWING push to modernize agriculture is transforming how the Philippines tills its land. Mechanization, seen by the government as the solution to low productivity and labor shortages, is embraced ...

Cannabis has been a globally important crop for millennia. While best known today as marijuana for its psychoactive ...

Cannabis has been a globally important crop for millennia. While best known today as marijuana for its psychoactive ...

Montana and Nebraska became the latest US states to ban lab-grown meat (also known as “cellular meat” or “cultivated meat”). Unlike plant-based meat su ...

A glowing-green flower bud may seem like something straight out of science fiction; however, modern biotechnology has made ...

Kyle Muldoon tends to go with his gut. When a profound feeling came over him about this foreign concept, known as gene editing, he knew that an answer to a family crisis was in front of him.