Higher yields, greater resilience to climatic changes or diseases—the demands on crop plants are constantly growing. To ...

Climate change tests the resilience of farmers and their crops. To better understand how plants respond to their dynamic environments, scientists magnify the complex biological conversations between ...

The new GE technology — for which the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has recently been granted a patent — ...

Earth's biodiversity is in crisis. An imminent "sixth mass extinction" threatens beloved and important wildlife. It also threatens to reduce the amount of genetic diversity—or variation—within species ...

Gene editing, a non-GMO technology, has the potential to revolutionize agriculture by increasing crop yields, making plants more resilient, and meeting the challenges of climate change. Cibus, a ...

City plants are changing in ways that are visible to anyone who pays attention to sidewalks, vacant lots, and pocket parks, ...

A gene drive – a bit of DNA that cheats evolution and can spread even if harmful – has been successfully tested in a plant for the first time. The approach could be used to wipe out invasive plants ...

Under the legacy EU regulations retained after Brexit, all genetically edited plants continued to be regulated as GMO, regardless of the modification or the technology used to make the edit or change.

Elucidating the relationship between the sequences of non-coding regulatory elements and their target genes is key to understanding gene regulation and its variation between plant species and ecotypes ...

As an avid gardener will tell you, plants with sharp thorns and prickles can leave you looking like you’ve had a run-in with an angry cat. Wouldn’t it be nice to rid plants of their prickles entirely ...

Humans love to play with their food—in fact, we’ve been doing it for thousands of years. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we explore how we’ve learned to manipulate plant genetics, from ...

Jeff Bartel is chairman and managing director of Hamptons Group, a private investment and strategic advisory firm headquartered in Miami. Gene editing technology, a major biotechnology advance, is ...