Six months after releasing world's first genome-edited rice varieties, Centre may soon approve release of genome-edited ...

An increasing number of researchers are keen to study plant stomata and figure out ways to manipulate them and develop hardier crops.

Deep inside the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, a concrete wedge in the permafrost holds a backup copy of the world’s food ...

India is close to approving a genetically edited variety of mustard, which offers better nutrition and disease resistance ...

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On December 4, 2025, the Council of the European Union (EU) reached a provisional agreement with the European Parliament (EP) on rules establishing a legal framework for new genomic techniques (NGT).

"Most EU governments want to allow untested and unlabelled GM plants to be released into the environment and onto our plates" – Save Our Seeds ...

Rwanda launches BioCap project to build crop biotechnology capacity Five-year program targets cassava, potato, banana improvement $14 million centre to train scientists in advanced biotech techniques ...

Researchers have developed a new method for making transgene-free, non-GMO plants that are more resistant to disease and ...

On 4 December, EU negotiators reached an agreement to deregulate plants engineered with new genomic techniques. In this op-ed ...

Mo Khalil is the Hok Lam and Kathleen Kam Wong Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at ...

Most plants can reproduce both sexually (through flowers and seed) but many important crops, such as potatoes and strawberry, are propagated vegetatively, e.g. through tubers or shoots. A new study of ...