Protecting native maize diversity is one of the key arguments behind Mexico’s constitutional ban on genetically modified corn ...

Plant Genetic Resources are the backbone of our food systems, and their conservation and sustainable use are essential for ensuring food security, improving crop production, and enhancing the ...

Plant material . Guava plant leaves from the Pedro Sato, Paluma and Século XXI varieties and from a wild variety were collected in the region of Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The collection was ...

Heritable Genetic Modification in Food Animals, a new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, offers recommendations for identifying the ...

A ‘gene drive’ that spreads through plant populations could be used to wipe out pests such as superweeds, or to help save species by making them resistant to heat or disease ...

Genetic Engineering in Plants Highlights Plant-Specific Regulatory Elements March 4, 2024. Credit ... While there have been great strides in plant genetics and modification, ...

Cao Xuesong, a scientist at SUSTech and a member of Zhu’s team described the current obstacles to gene editing: “Genetic modification or editing of plants has a very high technological barrier ...

Genetic modification has been used for many years in the generation of vaccines, 44 with the hepatitis B vaccine as an early example. 45 Strains can be generated in which key genes have been mutated ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has proposed five new types of genetic modifications a plant can contain and be exempt from APHIS ...

The rise of gene-edited embryos has raised a myriad of ethical questions. It involves altering DNA to prevent disease or even to choose specific traits using a method known as CRISPR. In 2018 ...

Unlike older genetic modification methods, the new techniques are precise, fast and inexpensive, and companies hope they will avoid the negative reputation and regulatory hurdles that hobbled the ...

And when we tested that plant, it had low alkaloids—confirming we really had found the "sweetness gene". Discover the latest in science, tech, and space with over 100,000 subscribers who rely on ...