EAST LANSING, Mich. –– New ground broken by Michigan State University biochemists helps explain how plants protect themselves from freezing temperatures and could lead to discoveries related to plant tolerance for drought and other extreme conditions. "This brings together two classic pr...

Accra - Ghanaians have been urged to embrace the use and application of modern biotechnology to effectively solve food insecurity and the likely impact of climate change on farming. Professor Walter Sandow Alhassan, Project Coordinator for Safe Biotechnology Management in Sub-Saharan Africa (SABIMA) under the Forum for...

The Brazilian commission for biosafety (CTNBio) approved two new versions of GM soybean for commercial cultivation. One, Bt Roundup Ready 2 Yield, is the first insect-resistant GM soybean and the first GM crop that Monsanto specifically developed for a market outside the US. The US company’s RoundupReady soybeans are resi...

The team hopes that the breakthrough - which saw scientists mapping a code five times larger than that of humans - will relieve pressure on the world's wheat supply. The annual wheat harvest is more than 550million tonnes worldwide, and is worth £2billion to Britain's agricultural industry.

InterGrain Pty Ltd and Monsanto Company today announced a technology collaboration agreement that is expected to lead to significant new advances in wheat technology for Australian growers. In connection with the collaboration, Monsanto has acquired a 19.9 percent minority interest in InterGrain, a lead...

A trial plot of genetically-modified potatoes at Norfolk's John Innes Centre has withstood five days of intense late-blight infection. Scientists spotted blight last week on the small trial plots of potatoes at Colney, which include GM resistance genes taken from wild relatives. The initial results, after less than a week of lat...

US authorities began yesterday (August 25) the process to approve the first GM animal for human consumption. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a 60-day period of consultation and public meetings over whether to permit a GM strain of salmon to be eaten by humans, even though it has been called a "frankenfish" by critics...

Mark Lawson hardly lives in the heart of where western bean cutworm problems have flared up in Indiana. Located near Danville in Hendricks County, the Syngenta agronomist is smack dab in the middle of central Indiana. Until last year, western bean cutworm in Indiana was confined to a couple of counties in northwest Indiana with sandy soils. L...

Humane Society International (HIS), an animal welfare group, wants a ban on the genetic engineering and cloning of farm animals aimed at boosting egg, meat or milk production. The society has urged India's GM regulator, Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC), to prohibit genetic engineering to save animals from suffering.

Giving yet another view on biotechnology, Dr Kwadwo Asenso Okyere, director of the International Food & Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), said that the debate on genetically modified (GM) crops was yet to reach a specific conclusion and safety issues required to be discussed before marketing them. "We should put sentiment aside in ca...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Drought-tolerant crops have moved closer to becoming reality. A collaborative team of scientists has made a significant advance on the discovery last year by the University of California...

ISLAMABAD -- Cotton alone contributes nearly 65 percent of the foreign exchange earnings of Pakistan and the Bt cotton varieties (IR 3701 and IR 1524) developed by Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission’s (PAEC) Biotech Centre, NIBGE hopefully will help in achieving cotton vision 2015 of government. The object is to boost production to 20 mi...

Substantial growth in the adoption rate of biotech soybeans, corn and cotton in Brazil - this is the projection for the 2010/11 growing season based on the first survey on agribiotechnology in the country by Celeres, an agrobusiness consultancy group. Highlights of the report estimate that: Farmers will plant 17.2...

To achieve food security, scientific research-oriented farming, propagation of latest global information among the farmers and suitable policy research are very vital, experts and scientists said. 'It is extremely crucial to evaluate the potential of genetically-modified (GM) crops as these are nutrient-enriched, drought-resistant and disease-...

Recognizing the importance of Vitamin A in the reduction of illnesses related to Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) led to many studies for the solution of this problem. A paper published in PLOS One reports on the Cost-Effectiveness of ‘Golden Mustard' for Treating Vitamin A Deficiency in India ...

A Biosafety Commission of Genetically Engineered Product (KKH) has been established in Indonesia to implement the provision of Article 29 paragraph 1 of the Government Regulation 21 Year 2005 on the Safety of Genetically Engineered Crops and Biological Products. The commission was established by Presidential Regulation No. 39 last June 15, 20...