Nestled in the Sorrento Mesa brush, a greenhouse is filled with genetically resilient rice. Peter Beetham, CEO of Cibus, walked through the lush grass and, in his Australian accent, recounted the ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered where our agricultural crops come from? And what were they like thousands of years ago, or hundreds of years ago? Our food crops today are in fact very different from the ...

A research team has created gene-edited crops without using tissue culture. A team of plant biotechnologists led by Gunvant Patil at Texas Tech University (TX, USA) has developed a groundbreaking ...

A federal judge in California has vacated USDA’s 2020 rule exempting genetically engineered plants from regulation, which could significantly delay approval of crops engineered with traits to resist ...

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 ...

Amino acid metabolism in plants encompasses the biosynthesis, interconversion and catabolism of the twenty proteinogenic amino acids, which serve as building blocks for proteins, precursors for ...