Pakistan's agriculture stands on the cusp of a transformation as profound as the Green Revolution of the 1960s. This time, artificial intelligence (AI) and genome editing are the twin engines of ...

Climate change is rapidly altering the agricultural landscape, leaving farmers scrambling to adjust. As temperatures rise, ...

Over time, plants have evolved various strategies to defend against herbivores. A new study uncovers how these plant defense ...

A research team investigates how genome editing can be harnessed to accelerate cassava breeding and improve key traits.

The authors' demonstration that impaired olfactory perception reduces caterpillar performance and increases susceptibility to parasitism is solid. These findings highlight the ecological significance ...

In an era of climate uncertainty, population growth, and globalized supply chains, ensuring food safety has become one of ...

NGTs – the most notable being the Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR-Cas9 – allow scientists to edit a crop’s genome to achieve specific traits, such as increased resistance to disease or extreme ...

EU ambassadors are set to vote tomorrow on the latest draft compromise on new genomic techniques (NGTs). The patentability of genetically modified gene-edited crops has become the hot potato that ...

China Rattles Crop Markets With Levies on Canadian Farm Exports Beijing announces 100% levies on Canadian rapeseed oil, meal Ottawa also faces sweeping duties from Trump administration ...

In India, CRISPR is being employed in agricultural advancements to develop disease-resilient crops and enhance crop yield. It can aid in the development of disease-resilient livestock, improving the ...

Crop spray could lead to mass resistance in new-generation antifungal treatments Jan 9, 2024 Citizen science shows widespread exposure to drug-resistant fungal spores ...