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3 days ago · BEIJING, May 8 (Reuters) - China has approved the safety of gene-edited wheat for the first time as Beijing cautiously moves forward with commercial growing of genetically modified food crops. China has in the past year ramped up approvals of genetically modified (GM) corn and soybean seeds that are higher-yielding and resistant to insects and ...
4 days ago · When genetically modified (GM) crops were initially commercialized in the mid to late 1990s, many critics of the new technology predicted the benefits would be minimal and short-lived. These critics argued the financial benefits to farmers would be offset by higher seed costs, resulting in farmers returning to previous technologies that were ...
3 days ago · The key here is that gene-edited lines will not go through the genetically-modified registration process and resulting lines are not considered “GMO.” Plus, there are still some key market acceptance pieces to be put in place — especially in key export markets — before farmers will see large-scale access to gene-edited varieties.
3 days ago · China has in the past year ramped up approvals of genetically modified (GM) corn and soybean seeds that are higher-yielding and resistant to insects and herbicide to secure its food security, but ...
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5 days ago · “The approach is general enough that you could start with a corn dataset. You could do it with rice, with tomato, whatever crop you’re working on as long as you have thousands of gene expression measurements that people have done. And there are over a dozen species now where we have tens of thousands of gene-expression studies.”
4 days ago · GMO (short for “genetically modified organism”) is a plant, animal or microbe in which one or more changes have been made to the genome, typically using high-tech genetic engineering, in an attempt to alter the characteristics of an organism.
3 days ago · On April 23rd, Georg Jander, a professor from the Boyce Thompson Institute, addressed an audience in the offices of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
