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What does GMO mean, anyways?
A short guide to answering a complicated question.
While Covid-19 has commandeered the world’s attention, an important debate that will weigh on the future of agriculture is in process in Europe.
Read MoreGene Editing Can Feed The World – If We Let It
In the next 30 years, the world’s farmers have a significant challenge ahead of them: feed an additional two billion people, all while adapting to climate change and little arable land.
Prize recipient: plants need special help to survive climate change
“Congratulations to my former boss from the Salk Institute, Detlef Weigel, on receiving the prestigious 2020 Novozymes Prize. He was very influential in my early career and his insights into the effects of climate change on the European continent are important.
Decreasing Pod Shatter Means Increasing Sustainability
Improving agricultural sustainability can take on many different forms. It can mean creating more disease-resistant crops, which allows farmers to apply less fungicide. It can mean growing plants that have a different herbicide tolerance,
How Gene Editing is Reshaping Agriculture
Though it hasn’t garnered the attention this revolution merits, a new technology is reshaping the oldest human enterprise: agriculture. With gene editing comes a new model of how crops are improved and produced,
Breeding a Nonallergenic Peanut
Author: Peter Beetham
Publication: Scientific American
Publisher: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, a Division of Springer Nature America, Inc.
Date: Nov 25,