For thousands of years, humans have sought to improve their plants to ensure they have safe and nutritious sources of food. It started out with the simple act of selecting the strongest, most ...

In a lab at North Carolina State University, researchers are piecing together the future of Christmas trees — quite literally. With a $7.5 million grant from the USDA, they’re embarking on a ...

Can organic and non-GMO agriculture offer innovative, tech-based solutions for our food system – or does hope lie in new plant breeding techniques? “Innovation in food and farming doesn’t implicitly ...

Organic farming body IFOAM EU has called for new plant breeding techniques that are still in the experimental stage to be classed as GM under EU law - but this is a “Pavlov’s dog” response, says the ...

Here, we discuss the Opinion of Advocate General Bobek 7, which we believe sheds light on how the EU will likely deal with so-called 'mutagenic' NPBTs (e.g., oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis (ODM) ...