Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To address these challenges, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...

New gene editing technique can easily circumvent risk assessment, thanks to the EU's lax new rule, says Swiss GMO-free ...

Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed a new way to add large pieces of ...

In 1982, she led the research team that figured out how to genetically alter plants, a discovery that would eventually ...

Biotechnology used in agricultural science greatly affects our lives — from nurturing our bodies and feeding our families to mitigating the effects of climate change. Just one handful of healthy soil ...

MicroRNA396 has been identified as a negative regulator of shoot regeneration in tomatoes, unlocking possibilities for plant genetic engineering. Researchers from the Korea Research Institute of ...

Farmers have been trying to minimize the impacts of crop pests for thousands of years. Insects, nematodes, bacteria, fungi, and viruses can cause massive destruction of important crops, and this ...

Plant-based protein expression systems could help biopharma build production capacity in the Global South, according to new research.