Biosensor detects early fungal outbreaks, advances plant biotechnology

A new biosensor developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory detects the emerging presence of fungus ...
Post-Bulletin

LET Biotech, organic crops can co-exist

Good judgement and common sense prevailed when North Dakota lawmakers recently defeated a bill that would have required biotech seed developers to bear much of the liability relating to the planting ...
Nature

History of Agricultural Biotechnology: How Crop Development has Evolved

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 ...
Reason

A New Green Revolution Is in the Offing

A recent spate of crop biotech breakthroughs presage a New Green Revolution that will boost crop production, shrink agriculture's environmental footprint, help us weather future climate change, and ...
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New biotech hub to drive disease-resistant crops

A centre of excellence for crop biotechnology is set be established to develop and deploy disease-resistant seeds under a new five-year project, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal ...
inforum

Seeds for the future: NDSU involved in biotech crop research

Lynn Dahleen's work in the smallest of places, the gene structure of plants, could pay off in a big way. For four years, she has toiled in her Fargo laboratory, inserting foreign genes into barley.
Post-Bulletin

Biotech crops taking root outside the United States

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Biotech crops are flourishing in the United States, but they're also taking root across the globe, accounting for about $44 billion in crops in five leading countries, according to ...
The Times Leader

Biotech Crops Questioned

Germany has called for a debate on the 27-nation bloc’s policy on GMOs at an EU leaders summit, December. BRUSSELS, Belgium — Germany’s agriculture minister urged the European Union on Monday to ...
AG Week

Growth of biotech crops plateaus

The growth of biotech crops in the U.S. appears to have hit a plateau, but farmers are accelerating plantings in Asia, although it still remains a much smaller market, according to an industry report ...
Billings Gazette

Biotech crops thriving outside U.S.

WASHINGTON - Biotech crops are flourishing in the United States, but they're also taking root around the globe, accounting for about $44 billion in crops in five leading countries, according to a ...

£3m seed funding for crop biotech firm Cytotrait

Co-founder says University of Manchester spinout's MOSS tech could 'bring about a new frontier in crop technology' ...