Genetic changes have the ability to alter crop characteristics, and some crop breeding techniques take advantage of this. Conventionally, genetic engineering has relied on natural or artificial ...
Cutting-edge editing techniques are accelerating efforts to create high-yield, resilient varieties of major agricultural products.
In a shift away from GMOS, aka genetically modified organisms, important research is continuing in gene editing, sometimes ...
The Plant and Animal Genomics conference recently held in San Diego showcased the ways that rapidly advancing technologies can be used in the crop and livestock sectors ...
For starters, New Breeding Techniques (NBTs ... to be put in place to help guide her work in two crop varieties under genome editing research; banana and yam projects. The banana project is ...
With genome editing we now have the tools at hand to precisely re-write the genetic code and make crop breeding more predictable," says Sebastian Soyk. "We should now combine this ability with ...
By reducing the cost of breeding, the firm hopes to improve yields and other properties for an array of important crops ...