The first genetically modified (GM) food ever made commercially available to the public was a tomato, invented in the US in 1994. Since then, a number of different genetically modified foods have been created, including corn, ...
Biotechnology
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In animals, DNA damage could lead to cancers. Although plants live for a long time without cancers, their growth is always challenged by many environmental factors, such as radiation, salinity, heavy metals and flooding, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 9, 2022
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A dose of ethanol, better known as common alcohol, can enable plants to withstand heat stress that might otherwise kill them, RIKEN biologists have found. This could offer a low-cost way to make crops more resilient to the ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 30, 2022
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Growing multiple food crops together is a more sustainable farming practice mimicking highly productive wild plant communities. This process, known as intercropping, takes advantage of complementary features of different ...
Ecology
Sep 13, 2022
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A Policy Forum article published today in Science calls for a new approach to regulating genetically engineered (GE) crops, arguing that current approaches for triggering safety testing vary dramatically among countries and ...
Agriculture
Sep 1, 2022
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The angle of the leaves on a corn stalk directly affects the plant's ability to soak up the summer sun needed for photosynthesis.
Biotechnology
Aug 17, 2022
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A research team led by Prof. Ling Hongqing from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with collaborators from Ludong University and the Computer Network ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 1, 2022
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Over the course of many thousands of years, humans turned rye into a cultivated plant. In doing so, they have considerably limited its genetic flexibility. Today, wild rye not only has a more diverse genetic make-up, it is ...
Evolution
Jul 20, 2022
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What do bananas and cavoodles have in common? They're both lovely, yellowy and have been produced by genetic manipulation.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 30, 2022
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An international team of researchers, including one from The University of Western Australia (UWA), has successfully unraveled the genomes of 418 unique samples of rapeseed from across the globe to identify traits that breeders ...
Plants & Animals
May 16, 2022
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